Moyna lives in a little tribal village. She cannot go to school because she has
to tend the goats, collect the firewood, fetch the water... But she is so full
of questions that the postmaster calls her the 'why-why girl'! Mahasweta Devi is
one of India's foremost writers. In this delightful story, her first picture
book, and the only children's book she has written in English, she tells us how
she meets Moyna (and her mongoose!) and helps her find answers to all the
why-whys - in books, that Moyna herself learns to read.