By Gogu Shyamala

Translated from Telugu by A. Suneetha

Edited by Deepa Sreenivas

Tataki Wins Again: Twelve year-old Balamma is fiesty enough to water her family’s little patch of land before the village karnam’s fields. But will she be a match for the powerful–and very angry–karnam?

Illustrated by Puja Vaish

Braveheart Badeyya: Everybody is proud of Badeyya because he is the only boy in the village who goes to school. But not all his lessons are learnt there…

Illustrated by Rashmi Mala

Published by Mango, DC Books (2008)

ISBN-13: 978-81-264-2037-7

Part of the Different Tales project. Different Tales unearths stories from regional languages: stories that talk about the life-worlds of children in communities that one rarely reads about in children's books. Many of the stories draw on the writers' own childhoods to depict different ways of growing up in an often hostile world, finding new relationships with peers, parents and other adults. They take us on enticing journeys as they speak of delicious cuisines, ingenius little games, unexpected lessons at school and heartwarming friendships.