This is Uma Roy, daughter of our good friends Santhi and Roy. Uma with the help of her mother wrote and illustrated a book "Tsunami Joe" which was published by Brunei Press in 2006. It's about a baby hippo who is separated from his parents after the tsunami. After befriending a tortoise and with the help of fairies and unicorns, Joe was happily reunited with his family. It's a lovely magical story based on a true story of an orphaned baby hippo who befriends a century old tortoise in an animal facility in Kenya.
This afternoon we went to see Uma read the book at Solitude, a local bookstore. She read very well and very confidently to her audience of little people. I've been in the bookstore a couple of times but have never sat down in the cafe. It was good to catch up with friends over a cup of tea and the kids had great fun. Ohhh.... and the chocolate muffins were real yummy!
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