It's time to get ready for school and the little girl in this book is still in a world of dreams ? of tigers, elephants, the sea... And as she tries to hurry up, her grandmother tells her the secret of what made her father go to school. Sowmya Rajendran's story is inspired by her father's experience at a government-aided school. " His school stories are very different from mine," she says, "because we went to very different schools but that has only made them all the more enjoyable." Text and pictures capture the child's world of dreams and imagination, engagingly and with humour.