Katie Bagli remembers being fascinated with nature when she set sight on potted plants in her home. Then came the caterpillar, that she began rearing. "I have one just crawling around in my kitchen," she says, when asked about her love for them. It’s only one of the many insects that has kept the 68-year-old city-based author and illustrator busy in the past year. This Sunday, she launches a new title, Nature So Bizarre (Shree Book Centre), at a Fort bookstore, detailing 500 intriguing facts about, well, nature in an odd 250 pages.

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