His magnificent craft aside, no story written by Ray for young people has a single female character. At least this one had two princesses! This lack of females is especially grating if you read or watch Ray's detective series (Feluda). He had mentioned in an interview abotu the challenges of writing detective stories for kids because they had to be free of sex and violence. Could he not come up with characters who were just incidentally female? Though I think you will enjoy Sonar Kella from the Feluda series. Its very well made