Kangaroo Kisses
How many excuses can you come up with when you don't want to stop playing? Follow one mischievous child as she delays getting ready for bed - and has some amazing wildlife encounters along the way! Kangaroo Kisses is a delightful mix of fantasy and real life. Playful rhymes and lovely illustrations make it a perfect picture book for reading aloud at bedtime - or any time.
"So well crafted that it requires no effort to make it into a great shared read aloud experience...Taking Kangaroo Kisses as an example, we can certainly look forward to some wonderful books that encompass diversity and promote empathy- and that children will want to have read to them again and again." Mirrors Windows Doors
"A warm and spirited invitation to dreamland.”
Kirkus Reviews
Events
2021 Appearances
Interactive Storytelling and Author Reading, Mark Keppel Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School, Glendale, CA, USA
May 25, 2021
2019 Appearances
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Books of Wonder, 217 W 84th Street, New York, USA
May 12, 2019
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 2289 Broadway, New York, USA
May 11, 2019
2018 Appearances
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing
Foyles, 86 Bond Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1GH, UK
July 7, 2018
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing
Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Kolkata, India
April 9, 2018
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Future Foundation School, Kolkata, India
January 12, 2018
Inaugural Session, Oxford Junior Literary Festival,
Saint Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata, India
January 11, 2018
2017 Appearances
Interactive workshop with Nandana Sen, Bookaroo Children's Festival, Sanskriti School, New Delhi, India
November 24, 2017
Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Foyles Bookshop, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1GH, UK
August 21, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Bank Street Book Store, New York, USA
June 3, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Northeastern University, Russell J Call Children's Center, Boston, USA
May 8, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling and Author Signing, Barnes and Noble Book Store, Boston, USA
May 7, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Story Time and Author Signing in support of Extreme Kids and Crew.
First session at Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
April 22, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Story Time and Author Signing in support of Extreme Kids and Crew.
Second session at Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA
April 22, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling for children with terminal illness, "Firefly World", First Children's Hospice, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 1, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling, The European School, Tbilisi, Georgia
February 28, 2017
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London, UK
February 19, 2017
2016 Appearances
"Kangaroo Kisses" Special Storytime and Author Signing, Words Bookstore, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA, December 10, 2016
Special Superhero Celebrity Storytime and Signing, Barnes and Noble, Eastchester, New York, USA
December 3, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" and "Mambi and the Forest Fire" Interactive Storytelling, Nehru Centre, High Commission of India, London, UK
November 25, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" School Sessions with Reception, Year One and Year Two, Highgate Primary, London, UK, November 23, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Workshop with Nandana Sen, South Ken Kids Festival, Institute Francais, London, UK, November 17, 2016
Nandana Dev Sen at the Prudential Center: "Kangaroo Kisses" Storytime and Signing, Barnes and Noble, Boston, USA
November 13, 2016
Meet Author Nandana Sen: "Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Reading and Signing, McNally Jackson Books, New York, USA
November 12, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Reception and Signing at New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Conference, Baltimore, USA
October 16, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Launch Party, Books of Wonder, New York, USA
September 25, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive School Session, Kangaroo Kids School, Pali Hill, Mumbai, India
September 2, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling, Holt Book Shop, Holt Festival, UK
July 27, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling, The Book Nook, Hove, UK
July 23, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Book Launch and Interactive Storytelling, Hay Days, Hay Festival, UK,
June 4, 2016
"Seeing the World in Pink and Blue" Gender Coding in Children's Literature and Games" Kolkata Literary Meet, Kolkata, India,
January 25, 2016
"Writing for Children, Writing as Children" Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India
January 21, 2016
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Reading and Conversation, Galle Literature Festival, Thomas Gall School, Galle, Sri Lanka
January 16, 2016
Events Gallery
"Kangaroo Kisses" Interactive Storytelling for children with terminal illness, "Firefly World", First Children's Hospice, Tbilisi, Georgia
March 1, 2017
A Rapt Audience: Sulakshana reads Kangaroo Kisses with Nandana in Book of Wonder, September 25, 2016
"I'm learning to Fly, with geese in the sky!" Books of Wonder, September 25, 2016
Sulakshana takes charge of the cake, Books of Wonder, September 25, 2016
Nandana and her poet mother Nabaneeta Dev Sen pore over the proofs of Kangaroo Kisses, in Essex, UK
Press and Interviews
Reviews of Kangaroo Kisses - click here
Calcutta Times, Times of India
Kolkata is Talking About
September 1, 2018
News Sense - click here for full article (external link)
August 24, 2018
The Hindu - click here for full article (external website)
February 25, 2018
Mirrors Windows Doors - click here for full article (external website)
November 1, 2016
Critical Blast - click here for full article (external website)
October 27, 2016
School Library Journal - click here for full article (external website)
October 3, 2016
Publisher's Weekly - click for full article (external website)
September 29, 2016
Curling up with a Good Book - click here for full article (external website)
September 21, 2016
Curling up with a Good Book - click here for full article (external website)
September 21, 2016