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Our Story
Papaya is a collaboration between tired parents and talented designers. Each book is made to keep children engaged, enthralled, curious, eager to learn, and out of mischief.
The Papaya Team
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Shehan Karunatilaka
A Booker-winning author, and father of two, Shehan believes that most of the world’s problems could be solved in a generation, if we give more books to more kids. He has written stories about cricket, ghosts, plants and excrement.
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Lalith Karunatilaka
Grade 5 Fun-Run raffle draw winner 1992. He is a bespectacled younger brother and dog father, who, after many years of doodling nonsense decided to finally try his hand at children’s books. A curious lad, Lalith always wonders if he has ever met the same ant twice.
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