Clean Bowled, Butterfingers!

Description

What Amar 'Butterfingers' Kishen really wants is to hold a cricket match in Colonel Nadkarni's memory. But what the principal really wants is for the teachers of Green Park School to be more healthy and active. So, Amar playfully proposes a match between the teachers of the junior and senior schools. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of adventure, intrigue and madness! Entertaining, uplifting and rib-tickling, this third novel, featuring, everyone's beloved Butterfingers will delight readers both old and new.

Khyrunnisa A., prize-winning author of children's fiction, loves reading, writing and children. She created the popular comic character Butterfingers for the children's magazine Tinkle. Her five previous books in the Butterfingers series include three novels, Howzzat Butterfingers! (2010), Goal, Butterfingers! (2012) and Clean Bowled, Butterfingers! (2015), and two collections of short stories, The Misadventures of Butterfingers (2016) and Run, It's Butterfingers Again! (2017). This book, like the previous collections, includes stories that have appeared in Tinkle in comic-strip form. Some of her stories, for children and for adults, have been published in various anthologies. A collection, Lost in Ooty and Other Adventure Stories, was brought out in 2010. Her stories appear regularly in Dimdima, and she had a fortnightly column, Inside View, in The Hindu MetroPlus. She worked as associate professor of English at All Saints' College, Thiruvananthapuram, and is now a full-time writer. Visit her at www.khyrunnisa.com and connect with her at khyrubutter@gmail.com.