The author of highly celebrated books such as The Midnight’s Children and The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie is now going to pen a book for children. Rushdie says he has been toying with the idea since some time, but should get down to writing it sometime by this month’s end. It certainly does not require a genius to predict that this book of Rushdie’s will garner massive interest once it publishes. ‘I'm thinking of writing a children's book. My younger son is 11, which is the age my older son (Zafar) was when I wrote a book for him, so now Milan is saying: 'Where's my book'?’, said 61 year old Rushdie.

Just recently on Thursday, July 10, the two sons of Salman Rushdie ‘Zafar and Milan’ were in London to pick up the prestigious Best of Booker Prize awarded to their father. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children, a novel based on India's birth was declared the winner of the 'Best of the Booker' title, 27 years after its publication. Salman Rushdie revealed that he was not confident at all when he wrote the Midnight’s Children as most of his previous books had been received badly. ‘I felt like a failed writer. At the time, Ian (McEwan), Martin (Amis) and Julian (Barnes) had had great successes, leaving me at the starting grid, ‘ remarked Rushdie.