The challenge of ‘The Challenge’

A book lover always, when Sameena Shaikh started reading stories to her two little daughters, she wished for more from a book than just some text and visuals. “I wished it had more pictures or more interesting language or a way to teach kids to be good persons through a moral,” she says. The 42-year-old wanted books for children to be more creative and engaging. “Pop-up books were a novelty but those were very few and not printed in India.” It was this streak that eventually led to Sameena publishing her own book for children.