THE BOINK MYSTERY
Neera Jain
THE BOINK MYSTERY by By Mala Kumar and Manisha Chaudhry , 2016, 16 pp., 35.00
November 2016, volume 40, No 11

The Boink Mystery is for level 3 readers, that is, children who have begun reading independently. The theme is about cleanliness in public places and in general. One feels happy that Pratham has taken up this theme and tried to create awareness about it. The mantra of ‘catch ‘em young’ is very apt in this situation. Aman is on a school trip to the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur when a strange flying object called Yontrik befriends him. The creature or the object starts beeping in distress every time someone does something dirty! He says that his ears or nose or eyes get a headache when he sees someone picking their nose or spitting or defecating in the open. Aman also begins to feel similar pain in such situations and in this way the author succeeds in drawing attention to people’s dirty habits.

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