Supriya Kelkar on American as Paneer Pie
The TeachingBooks Virtual Book Tour is your opportunity to learn from and build personal connections with extraordinary book creators. In this post, author Supriya Kelkar speaks about her middle-grade title, American as Paneer Pie.





Tackling what frightens us and discovering things are not as scary as they seemed is one thing; finding out that our worst-case scenario is indeed at hand is another. That is when courage asks something deeper of us.
The inspiration I felt leaning back on the brilliance of the original book, even as I forged new, unexpected writing paths forward, afforded a world of creative possibility and play that enchanted me as I wrote the book.
In book terms, we were all partners in the best senses of the word. And the book was made better because of that.