Nandana Sen

Author/Illustrator/Translator
PAL Member

About

Nandana Dev Sen is a children’s author, a child-rights activist and an award-winning actor. Her books - Kangaroo Kisses, Mambi and the Forest Fire, Not Yet!, Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm, The Monkey Who Wanted To Fly, and Make Up Your Mind  - have been translated into 15 languages across the world. Kangaroo Kisses was selected by 320+ nurseries in the U.K. as a "Book of Excellence" (Letterbox Library), while Mambi the spunky monkey is now the heroine of a Puffin India series, as well as a first novel for children. Nandana lives in New York, London and Kolkata, and has starred in over twenty feature films from four continents. After studying literature at Harvard and filmmaking at U.S.C., Nandana worked as a book editor, a screenwriter, a poetry translator, a script doctor, an advocate for child protection, and as Princess Jasmine in Disneyland.Nandana has worked with kids since her school days, and loves to find new ways of sharing her stories with children. Her popular interactive storytelling sessions have been loved by over 20,000 kids across the world - from international literary festivals like Hay, Imagine, South Ken, Jaipur, Dhaka, Kolkata, and Galle, to schools in London, Boston, New York, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Colombo; from bookstores in the US, UK, and India, to orphanages and children's homes in Europe, Asia, and Africa; from play-spaces for special-needs kids, to a children's hospice in Tbilisi, and a children's cancer hospital in Mumbai. As an ambassador and an advocate, Nandana works with children (and grown-ups) at RAHI, Operation Smile, Apne Aap and UNICEF to fight against child abuse. She loves to eat, play, bike, dance, rhyme, and argue. Do visit her online at nandanadevsen.comTwitter - @nandanadevsenFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/Nandana-Dev-Sen-425301007652500/Instagram – @nandanadevsen

Books

Talk Tumble of Jumble Farm

Mambi and the Forest Fire

Kangaroo Kisses

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