Review
The perfect story to escape into and find adventure. Pooja is super talented and I'm a big fan! -- Marcus Rashford MBE on A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
A joyfully bonkers adventure, brimming with humour and heart. -- Maz Evans, author of Who Let the Gods Out? on A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
Rip-roaring fun for all ages! -- Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars on A Dinosaur Ate My Sister
This is a brillant, imaginative adventure - The Week Junior Magazine on A Robot Squashed My Teacher
This book is so marvellously madcap that it can’t fail to capture the imaginations of readers and inventors across the land. It’s a glorious fusion of malfunctioning gadgets, giant robots, and hilarious hijinks! - Library Girl and Book Boy on A Robot Squashed My Teacher
Puri and Fatimaharan work their special magic on this madcap adventure. - Lancashire Evening Post on A Robot Squashed My Teacher
About the Author
Pooja Puri graduated from King’s College London with a first-class degree in English Language and Literature. Whilst at university she read for a publishing house and has since worked in the education sector. In 2014, she was chosen as a winner of the Ideas Tap Writer’s Centre Norwich Inspires competition. She went on to complete the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. Her debut novel The Jungle is a brave and beautiful narrative about two teenage refugees in Calais and was published in 2017. In 2018, The Jungle was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. She is the author of two middle-grade novelsA Dinosaur Ate My Sister, selected for the Marcus Rashford Book Club, and A Robot Squashed My Teacher.