Nimmi’s Crawful Camping Days by Shabnam Minwalla. Published in 2023 by Talking Cub, an imprint of by Speaking Tiger Books LLP, 125A, Ground Floor, Shahpur Jat, near Asiad Village, New Delhi 110049; website: https://speaking tigerbooks.com. Pp: 175. Price: Rs 250.
Nimmi Daruwala is an ordinary looking, angst ridden, soon-to-be-teen. Like any self-respecting prepubescent girl, she longs to be allowed to wax her legs and learn stitching so that she can shorten the length of her school uniform without her mother’s knowledge. A Scrabble champ, she is at her best with made-up words like "snastiest” (snooty + nasty).
At Vidya World School Nimmi’s......