In Switcheroos, Swati Chanda takes us through Markiposa forest where every day has exiting moments in store.

To begin with, Rinzin, a dragon desperately wanting to make friends, finds clouds of fire from her mouth chasing away other animals. A rabbit comes to her rescue. Exactly from this point begins trail of unwinding strange and mysterious happenings in the wildlife.

Lenny, lion prince loses his roar while chasing a deer into the Valley of Echoes, Carlos the crow turns rainbow coloured, honey turns bitter for queen bee; Nayomi, elephant leader forgets even her way around the forest, Zebra loses its stripes, Chiku monkey suddenly stops his monkey business and turns sombre; what Nash-4, the winged unicorn from Zandar has got to do with these strange incidents?

The wise-old Rinzin’s hunt for solutions makes this collection of stories.

Illustrations by Ajanta Guhathakurta play a good foil to the impressive narration by Swati in creating a forest abuzz with startling surprises and strange incidents. Suspense, excitement in each step let you go wild with imagination. Curiosity killed the Cat and other Animal Idioms

Did you ever feel like you were having ants in the pants while attending English classes? Did you think you were on a wild goose chase when some of the expressions in English were  tough to follow?

Curiosity Killed the Cat And Other Animal Idioms delights you and makes you realise it’s fun learning the language. If  idioms like ‘to rain cats and dogs’ bug you, this book lets the cat out of the bag by telling you amusing stories about  their origin.

The book introduces more than eighty animal idioms and phrases, arranged by themes. It’s not an elephantine task to learn idioms with the help of illustrations that impress you in two shakes of a duck’s tail just as you flip through its pages. The tips, given at the end of the book, to learn and use the idioms, in various ways will help you to be a cool cat even while giving a tough English test.