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January 3, 2016
Hippocampus Library interviews Payal Kapadia: ““There’s a little part of us that remains a child forever.”
Payal Kapadia’s debut book,Wisha Wozzariter, won the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing in 2013. It is also on the “101 Indian Children’s Books We Love!” list. After getting a B.A.(Hons.) degree in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Payal received a M.S. (Journalism) from Northwestern University in Chicago. She worked with Outlook in Mumbai and The Japan Times in Tokyo because she thought that real life would give her many stories. It did – but then Payal discovered tha...
December 24, 2015
DailyO.in reviews Horrid High: Back to School: “My favourite children’s books of 2015”
Horrid High: Back to Schoolby Payal Kapadia returns with another adventure. Horrid High is no longer the horrid school that it once was – Granny Grit is now principal and has a new fleet of teachers.
But when Granny Grit has to rush to the Amazon, 12-year-old Ferg and his friends are left to figure out the mysterious Grand Plan, dodge Cook Fracas’s food fights and attend classes with some weird teachers. A spirited read.
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December 24, 2015
November 22, 2015
21 Top Indian Authors to Follow on Twitter
India has a rich literary tradition, especially in the regional languages. Today, more and more Indian authors are making their mark in the Indian and foreign markets with their interesting, unique and excellent work. Many more authors today write in English, and many novels written in the local languages are also translated into Hindi and English, thus allowing for a wider readership. The opposite is also true. All this means that the Indian literary scene is currently great with many differ...
November 19, 2015
The Good Book Corner interviews Payal Kapadia
Payal Kapadia’sWisha Wozzariterwon the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing in 2013. It is also on the101 Indian Children’s Books We Love!list. We lovedHorrid Highand this December the next in the seriesHorrid High: Back to Schoolis scheduled for release. We caught up with Payal for a quick chat!
tgbc: How did the idea for Horrid High strike you?
Payal: I was at a writers workshop and I wrote a few lines about a character called Volumina Butt, a school bully who demolishes her victims by si...
The Good Book Corner – Interview
Payal Kapadia’sWisha Wozzariterwon the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing in 2013. It is also on the101 Indian Children’s Books We Love!list. We lovedHorrid Highand this December the next in the seriesHorrid High: Back to Schoolis scheduled for release. We caught up with Payal for a quick chat!
tgbc: How did the idea for Horrid High strike you?
Payal: I was at a writers workshop and I wrote a few lines about a character called Volumina Butt, a school bully who demolishes her victims by si...
November 8, 2015
What the Far Out reviews Horrid High
My opinion on Indian authors took a complete 360 after I read “Horrid High” by Payal Kapadia. The fictional and extremely humorous story revolved around an unwanted child (Ferg Gottin), sent away to a boarding school, and all the interesting characters he meets along the way. To say I enjoyed the book would be an understatement, although I felt sort of guilty to enjoy at the expense of Ferg and his companions.
One of my favorite features of the book would be the characters and their names. Th...
Horrid High by Payal Kapadia
My opinion on Indian authors took a complete 360 after I read “Horrid High” by Payal Kapadia. The fictional and extremely humorous story revolved around an unwanted child (Ferg Gottin), sent away to a boarding school, and all the interesting characters he meets along the way. To say I enjoyed the book would be an understatement, although I felt sort of guilty to enjoy at the expense of Ferg and his companions.
One of my favorite features of the book would be the characters and their names. Th...
July 20, 2015
PlusMinusN’More reviews Horrid High
Horrid Highby Payal Kapadiais about young Ferg Gottin, who has mean and uncaring parents. Ferg and his best friend, Ace, go to Sunnyvale School. Ferg’s parents, who want to get rid of him, decide to send him to a place where they can abandon him forever. They send him to “Happy High” which turns out to be Horrid High.
Horrid High is a place where teachers are trained to be absolutely horrid and then sent out to other schools. The students in Horrid High are made to sleep in harnesses so as, t...
March 25, 2015
The Swaddle reviews Horrid High
Ferg Gottin could have been a Dimwit, a Lowlife, or a Nincompoop, but he’s not—he’s a Scumbag. But really, Ferg isn’t actually any of these things. These are the names of the houses to which the children of Horrid High are assigned, and they should give you every indication of just how horrid Horrid High really is.
Despite its name and setting, Horrid High is an utterly delightful book about a boarding school for orphaned and unwanted children. Ferg is one of those children, born to parents w...
December 17, 2014
PlusMinus’n’More reviews Wisha Wozzariter
Wisha Wozzariter by Payal Kapadia is two books in one.
The first is the story of Wisha Wozzariter (Wish-I-was-a-writer), a ten-year old girl who wishes to become a writer. She hates good books more than a bad book because they make her sigh and feel that she could have written them.
One day, as she is reading a book, Bookworm comes out of the book and insists that she write a book. Bookworm takes her to the Marketplace of ideas through the Thought Express and gets her an Imagination balloon (...
