Archana Garodia Gupta PGP 88
Synopsis
The History Hunters books are thrill-a-minute time-travel fiction, weaving fact and fantasy for children! These amazing adventures in history with four feisty youngsters and Elfu the elephant, feature the most powerful rulers of the three mightiest empires seen in India – Chandragupta Maurya of the Mauryan Empire, Akbar of the Mughal Empire and Chandragupta Vikramaditya of the Gupta Empire. Unfolding history through story, this series, with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations by well-known illustrator Priya Kuriyan, brings to life the milestone periods of Indian history, starting with the Mauryan period and continuing with the Mughal and Gupta era (and more to come…). Interwoven in the stories is key information about the period and its famous personalities as well as nuggets of little-known facts that are guaranteed to surprise and fascinate every young reader.
Alongside, as a value-add and recap exercise is a Fact Tracker section to both inform and motivate readers to explore history further. Meticulously researched and written with an abiding love of history, the History Hunters series is a wonderful way for a child to engage with history.
Author Bio
Archana Garodia Gupta is the coauthor of the bestselling two volume “A History of India for Children”, which was nominated for the Crossword book award, and included in the Times of India list of 10 books every Indian Child must Read. She has also written “The Women who ruled India” and the History Hunters time travel series. A leading national quizzer, she is seen on national television as an expert on Kaun Banega Crorepati. She has been a winner of BBC Mastermind India. Archana was the National President of FLO, the women’s wing of FICCI, in 2015.In her business sphere, Archana Garodia Gupta is the founder of a successful Global eCommerce brand, Touchstone.
