Anushka Ravishankar has written over forty books for children, including picture books in verse, chapter books, retellings of folk tales and non-fiction. Several of them have been published internationally and have won awards. As a picture book writer, she has collaborated with illustrators from all over the world. She worked as an editor at Tara Books and Scholastic India before co-founding a children’s publishing house called Duckbill Books (now a Penguin Random House India imprint). Some of her books are Hic!, Ogd, Captain Coconut and the Case of the Missing Bananas and Moin and the Monkey Monster.