GIFTED SCHOOLGIRL AUTHOR JAANYA RAISES CHRISTMAS CHEER WITH CHILDREN’S FANTASY THRILLER ON MISSING SANTA
Front Cover Missing Santa by Jaanya Bajwa
Reviewer: SHAMLAL PURI, Senior Editor in London
Title: THE MISSING SANTA
Author: Jaanya Bajwa, aged 9
Pages: 80
Published by: BriBooks
Price: USD 13.50
Talented Indian schoolgirl Jaanya Bajwa is not the one to miss out on penning her fantasies to share with the world, and what better time than the Yuletide season to raise much-needed cheer?
Her second book, Missing Santa, has just rolled off the presses. She wrote it when she was eight years old.
Every child looks out for Santa Claus on Christmas day, rolling on his sleigh loaded with parcels and reindeer sweeping the sky across the moon and among the twinkling stars waiting to get in through the chimney to deliver their gifts of happiness and joy.
Dreamy children stay awake late on Christmas Eve for a knock on their chimney, singing ho ho ho and the sounds of jingle bell jingle bell…
The story starts with Tom on Christmas evening, who is asked by his parents to write that dream letter to Santa, giving a list of the gifts he wants.
So far, so good.
But all hell gets loose when Santa goes missing, leaving his empty sleigh and reindeer Rudolph in confusion.
What happened? Has he been kidnapped? Who would want to harm an innocent-looking Santa, the harbinger of good news for children as the snow-blanketed hazy sun rises on Christmas Day?
This is when Tom finds the missing Santa with his pet dog, Fluffy.
The rest of it is adventure reading not to be missed. It builds loads of fantasies for young minds.
I asked Jaanya, a Standard Three pupil at Chatrabhuj Narsee School in Mumbai, where she got the idea for this fascinating book.
“The Real story I had written in my English notebook because it was given as homework,” she recalls, “and I decided to write a book by adding extra interesting points.”
She spends her free time reading children’s books and has lately diverted her attention to reading books about God.
She has started writing her third book, mythology, adding her observations and thoughts.
Jaanya says she playing with her friends and writing, according to her mood.
Her doting mother, Disha Dhama, is her inspiration and looks after her.
Asked if she wishes to be a full-time writer, Jaanya says, after a thought, ”I’m going to choose a different profession, which I’m not aware of as of now, but writing would surely be a passion I would love to continue”.
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