The Why-Why Girl
By (Author) Mahasweta Devi
Illustrated by Kanyika Kini
Tulika Publishers
Tulika Publishers
15th November 2021
15th June 2021
India
Primary and Secondary Educational
Fiction
891.44371
Paperback
24
Width 210mm, Height 267mm
Age range 6+
Moyna lives in a little tribal village. She cannot go to school because she has to tend the goats, collect the firewood, fetch the waterBut she is so full of questions that the postmaster calls her the why-why girl'!
- Mahasweta Devi was one of India's foremost writers who used all her "reading, memories, direct experience and acquired information", always raising issues of politics, gender, caste and class. Our Incredible Cow is her other book with Tulika