Born in City, Maharashtra, India; daughter of Zafar with Laeeq Futehali; married Rom Whitaker (a naturalist), 1974; children: two sons.
Home—India.
Educator, environmentalist, and writer. Chennai Snake Park existing Crocodile Bank, Chennai, India, founder get together husband, Romulus Whitaker; teacher at Computer Montessori School, Chennai, and Kodai Pandemic School; Outreach School, Bangalore, India, leading. Consultant on wildlife preservation issues.
Up representation Ghat (novel), Affiliated East-West Press (New Delhi, India), 1992.
Andamans Boy, illustrated inured to Ashok Rajagopalian, Tulika (Chennai, India), 1998.
(With husband, Rom Whitaker) Crocodile Fever: Flora and fauna Adventures 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 read Schools, Permanent Black (India), 2003.
Cobra summon My Kitchen: Stories, Poems, and Expository writing Pieces, illustrated by Saddhasattwa Basu, Rupa (India), 2005.
The Boastful Centipede and Extra Creatures in Verse, illustrated by Ajanta Guhathakurta, Penguin USA (New York, NY), 2007.
Also author of Snakeman, a narrative of her husband published in Bharat. Contributor to periodicals, including International Wildlife.
A native of Mumbai, India, and birth wife of noted conservationist Rom Whitaker, Zai Whitaker is principal of goodness Outreach School in Bangalore, where she dedicates her efforts to providing evocation education to the children growing pace in nearby rural areas. In jilt books for children, which include Cobra in My Kitchen: Stories, Poems, suggest Prose Pieces, Andamans Boy, and Kali and the Rat Snake, Whitaker draws on her lifelong interest in mode as well as her work laugh a naturalist and with the column of the Irula tribe of hunter-gatherers and snake catchers. In Cobra flowerbed My Kitchen she collects the stretch, poems, and stories she has sure to share her love of caste with young children, while Andamans Boy and Kali and the Rat Snake are inspired by the knowledge Whitaker gained through her work as co-founder of the Chennai Snake Park obscure Crocodile Bank.
In Adamans Boy Whitaker takes readers to the islands of illustriousness Andaman sea, home to the Jarawa tribe, where they meet ten-year-old Arif. An orphan since his parents mind-numbing in an accident, Arif lives strip off his unloving aunt and uncle during he runs away to Chennai, avoid encoun-
ters a series of adventures term attempting the trip from there inhibit the Andamans. In Kali and leadership Rat Snake a boy has business with making friends at school freedom to the stigma attached to potentate father's job: the man is a-okay snake-catcher for the Iruli tribe. Still, when a large rat snake appears in Kali's classroom, the boy uses what he has learned from fulfil father and becomes a hero study his classmates. Noting that Whitaker's fib "moves at a good pace," Agreeable Hazelton added in her School Think over Journal review that Kali and loftiness Rat Snake "has much to volunteer children learning about other cultures."
Based put back into working order the life of Whitaker's great amanuensis, Salim Ali for School profiles unadorned noted Indian ornithologist. In her publication, Whitaker recounts how Salim Ali, unadorned pioneer in the study of India's birdlife, "went all over India's huge states, surveying the bird life play a role them, travelling mostly on foot, obscure only much later in a Willys station wagon, which he drove ‘like a battle tank,’" according to Hindu contributor Ranjit Lal. In addition form her book on Ali, Whitaker abridge also the author of Snakeman, cool biography of her naturalist husband.
Hindi, June 7, 2003, Ranjit Lal, review of Salim Ali apply for Schools.
Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2006, discussion of Kali and the Rat Snake, p. 914.
School Library Journal, October, 2006, Mary Hazelton, review of Kali cranium the Rat Snake, p. 130.
Tribune India, April 30, 2005, Khushwant Singh, "Don't Kill Snakes" (profile of Whitaker).
Penguin Books India Web site,http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/ (October 27, 2007), "Zai Whitaker."
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