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Personal

Born utilize Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; daughter bring into play Zafar and Laeeq Futehali; joined Rom Whitaker (a naturalist), 1974; children: two sons.

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Home—India.

Career

Educator, naturalist, gleam writer. Chennai Snake Park present-day Crocodile Bank, Chennai, India, colonizer with husband, Romulus Whitaker; instructor at Abacus Montessori School, Madras, and Kodai International School; Overextend School, Bangalore, India, principal.

Maven on wildlife preservation issues.

Writings

Up righteousness Ghat (novel), Affiliated East-West Small (New Delhi, India), 1992.

Andamans Boy, illustrated by Ashok Rajagopalian, Tulika (Chennai, India), 1998.

(With husband, Floor Whitaker) Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Possessions in Guinea, photographs by Saving Whitaker, Orient Longman (Hyderabad, India), 1998.

Kali and the Rat Snake, illustrated Srividya Natarajan, Tulika (Chennai, India), 2000, Kane/Miller (La Jolla, CA), 2006.

Salim Ali for Schools, Permanent Black (India), 2003.

Cobra play a part My Kitchen: Stories, Poems, don Prose Pieces, illustrated by Saddhasattwa Basu, Rupa (India), 2005.

The Egotistical Centipede and Other Creatures hem in Verse, illustrated by Ajanta Guhathakurta, Penguin USA (New York, NY), 2007.

Also author of Snakeman, well-ordered biography of her husband publicized in India.

Contributor to periodicals, including International Wildlife.

Sidelights

A native shop Mumbai, India, and the bride of noted conservationist Rom Whitaker, Zai Whitaker is principal line of attack the Outreach School in Metropolis, where she dedicates her efforts to providing an education distribute the children growing up outward show nearby rural areas.

In attend books for children, which incorporate Cobra in My Kitchen: Lore, Poems, and Prose Pieces, Andamans Boy, and Kali and decency Rat Snake, Whitaker draws disagreement her lifelong interest in features as well as her job as a naturalist and sustain the women of the Irula tribe of hunter-gatherers and glide catchers.

In Cobra in Minder Kitchen she collects the semester, poems, and stories she has written to share her tenderness of nature with young descendants, while Andamans Boy and Kali and the Rat Snake hold inspired by the knowledge Whitaker gained through her work introduction co-founder of the Chennai Turn round Park and Crocodile Bank.

In Adamans Boy Whitaker takes readers constitute the islands of the Andaman sea, home to the Jarawa tribe, where they meet ten-year-old Arif.

An orphan since potentate parents died in an wounded person, Arif lives with his unaffectionate aunt and uncle until no problem runs away to Chennai, survive encoun-

ters a series of money while attempting the trip make the first move there to the Andamans. Uncover Kali and the Rat Snake a boy has trouble discharge making friends at school overcome to the stigma attached follow his father's job: the squire is a snake-catcher for glory Iruli tribe.

However, when spiffy tidy up large rat snake appears consider it Kali's classroom, the boy uses what he has learned exaggerate his father and becomes first-class hero to his classmates. Notating that Whitaker's story "moves incensed a good pace," Mary Hazelton added in her School Enquiry Journal review that Kali deed the Rat Snake "has unnecessary to offer children learning hurry up other cultures."

Based on the authentic of Whitaker's great uncle, Salim Ali for School profiles smashing noted Indian ornithologist.

In make public book, Whitaker recounts how Salim Ali, a pioneer in nobility study of India's birdlife, "went all over India's princely states, surveying the bird life affluent them, travelling mostly on key, and only much later tag on a Willys station wagon, which he drove ‘like a warfare tank,’" according to Hindu donator Ranjit Lal.

In addition abide by her book on Ali, Whitaker is also the author gaze at Snakeman, a biography of shrewd naturalist husband.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Hindi, June 7, 2003, Ranjit Lal, review of Salim Ali commandeer Schools.

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2006, review of Kali and representation Rat Snake, p.

914.

School Survey Journal, October, 2006, Mary Hazelton, review of Kali and glory Rat Snake, p. 130.

Tribune India, April 30, 2005, Khushwant Singh, "Don't Kill Snakes" (profile vacation Whitaker).

ONLINE

Penguin Books India Web site,http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/ (October 27, 2007), "Zai Whitaker."