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First a jumbo, now a whale makes waves Source:Sundaytimes Shaahima Fahim talks to Nizrana Farook whose  second children’s book ‘The Boy Who Met a Whale’ is also making a buzz internationally following her hugely successful debut novel ‘The Girl Who Stole an Elephant’ that opened up a very Sri Lankan setting to children beyond our shores Nizrana Farook, whose debut children’s book ‘The Girl Who Stole an Elephant’ was a runaway hit, is now making waves of a far different kind with her second book ‘The Boy Who Met a Whale’. The starkly different settings for both ‘Elephant’ and ‘Whale’ -as Nizrana chooses to fondly refer to her books- were intentional. “As truly Sri Lankan stories, I wanted to showcase to my readership how varied our island’s (being so tiny) flora and fauna can be,” the author now based in the UK says.   ...