Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra

About the Author

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet with a worldwide fan-base, who has the attention of600,000 Instagram followers for poetrycollections and plays that offer a largely femalereadership the chance to recognise the valueof their own experiences. She has given aTedX Talk, spoken at every major literaryfestival in the U.K., been shortlisted for theGoodreads Choice Award in poetry threetimes and has recently made her first forayinto music having written for AnoushkaShankar's newest single Sister Susannah. Shehas written for or been featured in The NewYork Times, The Times, The Financial Times,The Guardian, Stylist Magazine, TheBookseller, Cosmopolitan, The Times of India,Eastern Eye and many more. Gill has writtensix collections of poetry, and a novel in versewhich highlights Hindu mythology.

Chaaya Prabhat is an illustrator and letteringartist from Chennai, India, currently workingout of Goa. She has worked on a number ofpicture books, including The Culture ofClothes (Templar Publishing), The Best DiwaliEver (Scholastic), Bracelets for Bina's Brothers(Charlesbridge Publishing) and Hide-and-SeekHistory: The Egyptians (Little Tiger Publishing).She's previously worked with several clientssuch as Penguin, Hachette, Facebook andGoogle on digital illustration projects. She haspreviously received awards for her portfolioand projects from Behance and Adobe.