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From award winning author Bijal Vachharajani, A Cloud Called Bhura is a delightful middle grade novel that tackles climate change through an inspiring lens of friendship, trust, and community.Amni wakes up one morning to find the sky taken over by a huge brown cloud. Even as she and her friends start to discover more, their city of Mumbai starts reeling from the changes the cloud brings to the weather. Bhura Cloudus (as the media calls it) causes scalding rain to fall, makes birds flee the city, and suffocates every living thing.As chaos continues to build and the climate changes brought by Bhura become disastrous, there are several questions on everyone's mind: What will the powerful politician, Mota Bhai, do now? Can the scientist twins, Vidisha and Bidisha, find a solution? What about superstar Pavan Kumar and the amazing cloud-sucking machine? Will Bhura ever be driven away - or is it already too late?Thought-provoking, funny, and inspiring, A Cloud Called Bhura is about changing global climate and the havoc it can cause - as well as the forces of friendship, trust, and community that give hope and help counter this deadly threat to humanity.
About the Author
When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading a children's book, she is writing or editing one. She has written A Cloud Called Bhura: Climate Champions to the Rescue, which won the Auther Children's Book Award 2020, and So You Want to Know About the Environment, and has co-authored 10 Indian Champions Who Are Fighting to Save the Planet and The Great Indian Nature Trail with Uncle Bikky. Her picture books include PS What's up with the climate?, What's Neema Eating Today? and The Seed Savers. The former editor of Time Out Bengaluru, Bijal has worked with 350. org, Fairtrade and Sanctuary Asia. Senior Editor at Pratham Books, Bijal has a Masters in Environment Security and Peace, with a specialisation in climate change from the University for Peace. She's now a certified climate worrier.
