[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-91759-en":3,"doc-seo-91759-105":28,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":90},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":11,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":20,"language":21,"language_code":22,"site_id":23,"html_lang":22,"table_of_contents":24,"faqs":25,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":26,"read_time":27},91759,1099514067438,"River Wang","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/100002539ee87300030?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1780474512215547542",1,"Story & Novel","Samira's Awful Lunch","Samira resists her lunch, rejecting parathas and brinjal curry, then complains about noodles, finds upma unappealing, and declares idlis taste “like mud.” When her lunch refusal continues, ants tease her to try vegetables and even offer a cockroach wing, which she firmly rejects. In the garden, the vibrant butterflies approach her and ask why she still won’t eat. The story follows her escalating food aversions and humorous, whimsical persuasion attempts.","Samira's Awful Lunch  \nAuthor: Bharati Jagannathan Illustrator: Preeti Krishnamurthy  \nEnglish Story Book  \nSamira's Awful Lunch  \nAuthor: Bharati Jagannathan Illustrator: Preeti Krishnamurthy Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger  \nPratham Books  \nEnglish  \nSamira's Awful Lunch  \nAuthor: Bharati Jagannathan  \nIllustrator: Preeti Krishnamurthy  \nCopyright © 2009, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nSamira made a face when she opened her tiffin box and thought,‘Who wants to eat parathas and brinjal curry? Not I.’Last week Amma had given her noodles with capsicum and carrots.“The noodles are squiggly and they look like worms,”she said when she went back home.  \n“I don’t like noodles.”  \nThe next day, Amma made upma with peanuts and peas, but Samira ate only the peanuts in it and took the rest back home.  \n“It was like wet sand,” she said when Amma asked her why she hadn’t eaten it.  \n“Shall I give you idlis?” asked Amma.“Oh, yes ! They would be lovely to play with. I can toss and catch them . But I will not eat them—idlis taste like mud.”So now there were parathas and brinjal curry. Ugh, ugh, ugh!  \nShutting her tiffin box with a bang, Samira went to the school courtyard. A row of ants crawling along the wall said,“Samira, why aren’t you eating your lunch like all the other children?”Samira said,“I don’t like parathas. I don’t like vegetables. I don’t want any lunch.”  \n“Of course, one cannot eat vegetables,”the ants agreed. They offered her the wing of a cockroach that they were carefully carrying and said,“Now try this, it is really delicious.”  \n“Oh no! I don’t want any horrible cockroaches,” said Samira and ran away to the garden.  \nColourful flowers were blooming in the garden and butterflies were flitting from one to the other.  \nAn orange butterfly with black checksand stripes said,“Hello Samira! Why aren’t you eating your lunch like all the other children?”","cbCaidfXktKGjg5x","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidfXktKGjg5x","pdf",92584231,23,"English","en",105,"# Story Progression\n## Lunch refusals and complaints\n## Ants’ unusual attempts to persuade her\n## Garden encounter with butterflies","[{\"question\":\"What foods does Samira refuse to eat?\",\"answer\":\"Samira rejects parathas and brinjal curry, dislikes noodles, eats only the peanuts from upma, and refuses idlis.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the ants try to persuade Samira to eat?\",\"answer\":\"The ants ask why she isn’t eating like the other children and offer her a cockroach wing they are carrying as a supposed delicacy.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens after Samira runs away to the garden?\",\"answer\":\"Colorful flowers bloom and butterflies appear, including an orange butterfly that asks Samira why she still won’t eat her lunch.\"}]",1784307930,35,{"code":4,"msg":29,"data":30},"ok",{"site_id":23,"language":22,"slug":31,"title":13,"keywords":32,"description":14,"schema_data":33,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":26},"samiras-awful-lunch","",{"@graph":34,"@context":84},[35,52,67],{"@type":36,"itemListElement":37},"BreadcrumbList",[38,42,46,49],{"item":39,"name":40,"@type":41,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":43,"name":44,"@type":41,"position":45},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":41,"position":48},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":41,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/samiras-awful-lunch/91759/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":22,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":39,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-22","2026-07-17",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":11},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"What foods does Samira refuse to eat?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"Samira rejects parathas and brinjal curry, dislikes noodles, eats only the peanuts from upma, and refuses idlis.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"How do the ants try to persuade Samira to eat?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"The ants ask why she isn’t eating like the other children and offer her a cockroach wing they are carrying as a supposed delicacy.",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"What happens after Samira runs away to the garden?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"Colorful flowers bloom and butterflies appear, including an orange butterfly that asks Samira why she still won’t eat her lunch.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":23},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,95,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},90,"story-novel",{"id":45,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":44,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]