A superb first book of poetry for children by award-winning author Jerry Pinto.
Why is the hamster such a scamster?
What’s it with mothers and coconut oil?
What happens to children who dig their noses?
Why do we need new days of the week?
What's a questoon?
Award-winning author Jerry Pinto answers all these questions and more in his first book of poetry for children. Here you’ll find happy poems, serious poems, poems that sound words of warning, poems that leave you on the floor laughing. There are poems about children who top their exams, or go swimming with sharks; and there are poems about fat cats lounging on mats, and rats in Bombay flats.
Filled with illustrations as quirky as the poems, Tickle Me, Don’t Tickle Me is hilarious and intelligent, tender and wicked. It is glorious.
About the Author
Jerry Pinto is the author of the novels Murder in Mahim (2017) and Em and the Big Hoom (2012; winner of the Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and the non-fiction book Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006; winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). His children’s books include A Bear for Felicia, Monster Garden, When Crows Are White and Postcards from Bombay. In 2016, Jerry Pinto was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award.