We’ve read Bookasura and Koobandhee; we’re all set for yet another book by Arundhati Venkatesh – Petu Pumpkin: Tiffin Thief.
Petu Pumpkin. Isn’t it a fun name? And doesn’t it seem apt that he would be a tiffin thief?
The question is: what can his friends do about the fact that Pushkin aka Petu Pumpkin eats everyone’s food?
They must come up with a plan.
And of course, the plan must be secret.
And a secret plan requires a secret society.
And a secret society must have a name, a leader, a secret meeting place and a password.
Petu Pumpkin: Tiffin Thief is a fun book that I’m sure we’ll enjoy at my book club. Here’s what we’ll do with it.
Secret Societies
Growing up on Secret Seven and Famous Five, I don’t know how many clubs my friends and I set up. The one I remember most clearly was a club called Helpful House, whose mission was to save the world. We made badges, had meetings, and even had a secret signal to get one another’s attention.
Petu Pumpkin: Tiffin Thief is the ideal book to inspire us to set up a secret society, and who will the members be? The children at my book club, of course! We’ll come up with names and a password, and we’ll try to make badges too. We already have our meeting place!
Codes
I love codes! They’re great for secret and not-so-secret messages. We’ll explore the code the children in the book work with and then create one of our own. I’ll also give the children a code to solve. I know it’ll be fun!
Food
A book about food requires conversations about food. What is your favourite food? Now that the children are back at school, I want to know what they love eating and what they hate eating, which will lead us to the question of what they think they will never eat – like spinach that smells like the dirty nala!
Maybe we’ll also have an eating meeting, where all of us bring something to eat and talk about it as we read and eat.
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