Prasenjit Gupta: Writings and Translations
To the Blue King’s Castle: Adventures in the Underground Forest is a story book for young children, middle-aged children, and other children usually called grown-ups.
A delightful adventure tale chock-full of hair-raising twists and turns, fabulous and frenetic wordplay, memorable characters of utter genius and perfectly simple magic, and nonsense poetry of the highest caliber (if there’s any such thing), this charming novel is reminiscent of the masterworks of Lewis Carroll and Frank L. Baum and the verse of Edward Lear.
“Ritu goes shopping to an ordinary mall and stumbles upon the most extraordinary adventure! She . . . finds herself in a forest where she meets the resident magician and his assistant Blanc-Noir. What happens thereafter is a magic maze of adventure and thrill. Prasenjit Gupta’s first book for children, which starts with Ritu’s mother pestering her to clean her room, takes a turn where anything is possible. For more twists in the tale, get reading!” — The Telegraph
To the Blue King's Castle (India: from Flipkart; U.S.: from Parabaas)