My pen name is Tamar Chachi-Baia de Santiago.
I started writing children's stories about small animals, because I am a doctor by profession and at the same time an animal right's defender. During the study of physiology in the university, I couldn't bear to experiment on frogs, mice, rabbits and dogs. Then I became a teacher of ethics, and I continued to fight unreasonable experiments on animals. I decided to start writing stories for children about mice, to protect them by making mice adorable.
I created other stories so that children would get to know rare and threatened creatures and fall in love with the infinitely diverse nature of our land, such as the tale "Almost Faithful Stories of Costa Rica" about the open-hearted glass frog Diane and her ruby-spotted little companion dragonfly Drago, Heteriana Sanguinea, how they became an inseparable "two of a kind". I have also written stories about a beauty contest between flowers and birds of Costa Rica and its inhabitants; star fall and an unusual eruption of volcanoes with flower petals.
'New Legends of India' is inspired by the lavish culture of the country in which thousands of legends exist.
This is story about the little white mouse Pipa who dreamed of becoming a Queen in distant Udaipur in Rajasthan and how her dreams came true.
In the 1st episode 'Pipa, a Nightingale and bat Pepe' bat Pepe tells Pipa legends which he learned from the swift Apus about a white mouse worshiped in India, and Pipa wonders if her dream can ever come through.
Pipa rescues a swift and returns it to the sky and the swift promises to help her whenever she is in need.
Pipa was being kept in a laboratory and a little brave grey mouse called Casper freed her and they married on Christmas Eve.
It happened later that the whole mouse family was delivered to India by migrating swifts. They then took part in the festivals which happen very often in Udaipur and other sites of Rajasthan.