The Curious Case of The Sweet and Spicy Sweetshop

Description

Making and selling sweets day after day is the life of Vishnudas Mithaiwala, the owner of The Sweet and Spicy Sweetshop. However, when Laddoo appears at his doorstep one night, claiming to be his estranged sister Revati's son, Vishnu's life is thrown into confusion. More craziness ensues when Anu turns up, also insisting that she's Revati's child! With no idea how to discern the real Mithaiwala, life is full of chaos for Vishnu, as the two children compete to prove their identity. And Laddoo, worried about his parents, who have suddenly disappeared, is thrown another curveball-he senses a ghostly presence in the house! When a plot to steal the Mithaiwala family's valuable recipe book is hatched, Laddoo tries to use this new psychic ability to save the day.

Nandini Nayar lives in Hyderabad, India, and writes for children. Her first picture book was Pranav's Picture (Tulika, 2005) and her first book for older children was The House of Fourteen Cats, which won the second prize in the Children's Book Trust competition in 2005. She now has eleven picture books, two novels, a collection of short stories and several non-fiction titles to her credit.