Friends Behind Walls

She may have spent nineteen long years as a journalist with leading publications, but Harshikaa Udasi promises that none of those years have made her super serious. She still cracks jokes at all the wrong times. When she isn't chasing her son for homework, food and other mommy obsessions, Harshikaa runs Book Trotters Club, a reading club for children, in Mumbai. And yes, she writes books! Her first, Kittu's Very Mad Day, was shortlisted for the MAMI Word to Screen 2017 and won the prestigious FICCI Publishing Award for Best Children's Book (English) in 2017. She is also the author of I Absolutely Totally Instantly Have to Have a Dog and has contributed short stories to On Your Marks: The Book of Crazy Exam Stories and Flipped: Adventure Stories / Ghost Stories.

Why won't anyone let Inu and Putti be friends?

Putti is spending his summer vacation in Deolali and he thinks life is going to be fun with his new friend Inu. But with their parents FORBIDDING them from playing with each other, the two kids are flabbergasted. Flab-ber-gas-ted. Means shocked. Nothing to do with food and farts.

Now the two of them have decided to find out why. Can Mr Om Namaha and Dr Solanki help? Or will I and P have to go up the hill to the fearsome Tekdichi Mhatari to solve this mystery?

Both I and my daughter thoroughly enjoyed and laughed our hearts out by reading this book. We loved the wonderful illustrations and the fun poem verses. Kids' innocence and their perspective of the parents have been captured beautifully. A delightful, entertaining, and must-read for all.. . . This is a heartwarming and relatable story that prompts you to re-examine any grudges you hold. The author connects well with kids using the classic technique of empathizing with them about the absurdities of grown up ways of thinking and of course, loads of humour.Author of award wining book, Kittu's Mad Day Out, is out with her next book for kids- Friends Behind Walls. Published by Puffin and richly illustrated by Krishna Bala Shenoi, Friends Behind Walls is sure to entertain you!Friends Behind Walls is a sweet story about, yes you guessed it, friendship. Love Krishna Bala Shenoi's illustrations, which are infused with warmth and humour.Friends Behind Walls by Harshikaa Udasi is a book about friends that were, friends that are, and friends that could be. A book with extremely well-etched characters that are so relatable, especially if you have lived in Mumbai or Pune or any part of Maharashtra. A book that shows how friendships can scale walls and climb hills, quite literally!. . . The style of writing is super funny as you will giggle along the book, the characters are relatable and extremely well etched that you can almost imagine each of them pop out of the book and instantly animate themselves. A perfect read aloud for parents looking to read to two or more children of varying ages.