India, Oct. 12 -- The Dandelions Have It is the coming-of-age story of Quillo, the hedgehog, uniquely illustrated with over 40 mixed-media collages. Author Sohini Sen talks to Sujoy Dhar about the story's themes of love for our Blue Planet, friendship, self-acceptance, and 'growth' that inevitably comes with misadventures and dollops of humour.

The Dandelions Have It is your ninth book to be published?

Yes. After eight published books, The Dandelions Have It represents a new creative direction for me. It follows the visual storytelling approach of my travelogue, Ladakh: A Photo Travelogue, which I presented in an unconventional comic-strip format, and the intimate prose of my novella, A Sense of Magnolias.

Photos courtesy: Sohini Sen ...