THE DANCING WAVES is a collection of poems for children which the author has written over the years. All of them are biographical or autobiographical though names have been changed to maintain privacy.

I only hope that nobody else saw what I did . Wealthy Bostonian Jack "Scooter" McCalister has it all-money, charm, and the devotion of two different women: Sherry, his high-society wife, and Erica, his island-born mistress. But while driving recklessly to catch a ferry one rainy morning, Jack strikes a young girl and leaves the scene of the accident, not even bothering to see if she is alive or dead. With this one fateful decision, Jack's perfect world shatters. Like a coastline lashed by a wintry sea, guilt and confusion wreak havoc on Jack's carefully managed existence. He struggles to keep the pieces of his life together until a dangerous witness to the accident begins blackmailing him, threatening to expose the truth. Pushed to the brink by his unknown tormentor, a double life, a faltering magazine business, and his ever-present remorse, Jack is caught in a web of lies. Now, Jack must break free before he loses his career, his sanity-and his life.

Ensconced in Mature Harappan period 4400 years before present, the novel draws life-breath from archaeological research and personal travels by the author to Lothal, Khirsara and Dholavira. The story unfolds in the life of a young village girl Rura who is on the threshold of puberty and resplendent with desire—physical and mental. As she utters, I am a tree at the onset of spring waiting/or the first flowers to bloom on me and render me into a world of fragrant and colourful ecstasies. I am awakening winds from mount Himvan.I am the singing voice of resurging joys of pubescent beautiful girl. She nourishes a dream of earning her place under Sun as an ace dancer in the great city of Mala (Mohenjodaro). In the village fair held to honour Ma Muna—the Mother Goddess, an old merchant Guggal proffers extraordinary lapis-lazuli bracelets and an equally fascinating story of daring sea adventure. His journey is peppered with love of a woman, fear, curiosity, mishaps, and godsend people of different civilizations. The two scintillating dream stories of the dancing girl and of Guggal—the daring sea-fairing trader are inter- twined. For Guggal proclaims, "I wanted to touch the sky, nay I wanted to create a new sky with my imprints." This novel is about dreams and daring, be it Rura or Guggal or still you and me and like all dreams they have no end!

In a delightful lesson in nature, Sandy, a young grain of sand, becomes a beautiful pearl. This simple interactive fiction is an excellent introduction to science for very young naturalists.