Meet Mrunal Parikh

Mrunal is a software engineer at Meta and a graduate of The University of Texas at Dallas. With 15+ years in tech, he brings the same curiosity and attention to detail that shapes his engineering work into every page of his debut picture book.

But the real inspiration for Tiny Bite Books wasn't in any office — it was at the dinner table, watching his two sons discover new foods, new words, and new ways to make each other laugh. Every character in this book carries a little piece of those moments.

The author's full personal note will appear here shortly — a story about fatherhood, curiosity, and how one cheesy dinner conversation became a book.