Khyrunnisa A., author of children's fiction who created popular comic character Butterfingers, has come up with a new short story collection titled Run! It's Butterfingers Again!
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The new novel will follow Butterfingers' mad escapades as he becomes a human cannonball, rides a runaway horse, takes up karate, acts as a Martian, oversees the great fall of China, tumbles into a river and tries his hand at fencing, with hilarious consequences, of course!
"The stories about the eternally endearing Butterfingers promises to be as rib-ticklingly funny as the first," the prize-winning author told THE WEEK.
"This collection, like the previous, includes stories that have appeared in Tinkle in comic-strip form," adds Khyrunissa, who had created Butterfingers for the children’s magazine Tinkle. But now, the character will also appear in the series of novels and short story collections published by Puffin.
The author's four previous books in the Butterfingers series include Howzzat Butterfingers! (2010), Goal, Butterfingers! (2012) and Clean Bowled, Butterfingers!(2015), and a collection of short stories, The Misadventures of Butterfingers (2016).
Some of her stories, for children and for adults, have been published in various anthologies by Puffin Books, Children’s Book Trust and Unisun Publications. Her stories appear regularly in Dimdima and she has an ongoing fortnightly column, Inside View, in The Hindu Metroplus.
