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A horrid place where parents dump children
First of all, I would like to congratulate the author of the book Horrid High , Payal Kapadia, who has done an excellent job. The characters Ferg Gottin, Immy Tate, Phil Fingersmith, Fermina Filch and Bat were the characters who played the roles of the protagonists...
The Swaddle: Payal Kapadia’s Less-Horrid Sequel to ‘Horrid High’
Gone are the Scumbags, Lowlifes, Dimwits and Nincompoops. The houses at Horrid High have been renamed. The school is no longer horrid. Ferg Gottin and his friends Fermina Filch, Immy Tate and Phil Fingersmith are back for another year at Horrid High, and they’re...
“Where everything is horrid” – Deccan Chronicle
Award-winning author of children’s books Payal Kapadia was at a writer’s workshop when the character of a school bully came to her mind and her search for the perfect school for the bully led to her new book ‘Horrid High’.
The Hindustan Times – “Wickedly, horridly horrid”
Is life getting dull and boring? Pick up the “wickedly funny” book Horrid High: Back to School by Payal Kapadia It is pretty unusual, but the greatest compliment that I can pay Payal Kapadia is that her new book is truly horrid. Yep, doesn’t sound like...
The Hindu – “Malory Towers with a touch of Dahl”
Payal Kapadia’s Horrid High series is set in a boarding school from hell with psychotic teachers
Tulika Books – The More Packed With Facts And Figures, The Better They Sell
“There is probably not the same buzz as in the West about children’s books if that is the yardstick used to judge the impact of children’s books by Indian authors. Rupa Pai’s The Gita for Children sold 20,000 in a few months of publishing and will probably sell five times that in a year. Ruskin Bond, Devdutt Pattanaik, Payal Kapadia (Horrid High series) probably sell as much or more. The bigger publishers do sell 30,000 to 40,000 of top-selling titles.”