“I See a Red Auto Library Every Day”: When Books Begin to Travel
I still remember the exact pause in the conversation. “I see a red auto library passing by my house every day,” a member of the AACCL library said to me, almost casually, while we were talking about something else entirely. That sentence stayed with me. It wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t polished. But it landed. There […]
A Sensory Art Experience: Children explore a multimodal Art Festival
This year we had the opportunity to take children from the Care Homes we work with to an arts festival. Serendipity Arts Festival is a ten day festival that takes over Panjim city with music and theatre performances, several exhibits and installations. Previously, we took children from our Mobile Outreach Program sites every year to […]
The Joy of a Library program in Care Homes
“Hello teacher, I liked this book and the story. Did you get new books today?” This is one of the many voices from the children in the Care Homes I visit. “Teacher, we won first place in a dance competition!” “I read four books this month.” They share updates about their lives with such enthusiasm. […]
Through a child’s eye
Written by Sanjeevini, Intern at Bookworm I am Sanjeevini, a graduate student in Sociology at the University of Hyderabad and in December 2023 I had the opportunity to intern at Bookworm and work with the team on various projects. I had a great time exploring the various ways Bookworm engages the children and brings them […]
BOOKWORM: A Library Redefined
Written by Shaina DCosta Did Suppandi ever get his dream job? And why was Eeyore always melancholic? We never found these answers. And that is what children’s literature does to you. It spellbinds that part of you, making your childhood the most Odyssean era of your life. A much-loved genre that still slithers through time […]
Live Happy – एक अविस्मरणीय अनुभव
बुकवर्ममध्ये पुस्तकांचा संग्रह आणि साहित्याशी संबंधित क्रियाकलाप वाढत असताना, मुलांना वाचनाची गोडी निर्माण व्हावी, ज्यांना वाचण्यास सहज कोणतीही पुस्तकं मिळत नाहीत अशा मुलांसाठी संधींची क्षितिजे विस्तृत करणे, एक साधन तयार करणे जे लिखित शब्द समजून घेण्याची आवश्यकता सक्षम करते आणि ओळखते हे बुकवर्मचे ध्येय साध्य करताना मोबाईल आउटरीच प्रोग्राम (MOP) ची संकल्पना एप्रिल 2011 मध्ये […]
Mobile Outreach Program च्या प्रवासावर…
पुस्तक वाचनाची आवड मुलांना असणं खुप गरजेचं आहे असं मला वाटतं, म्हणून नेहमी अश्या काहीतरी उपक्रमाचा भाग व्हायची इच्छा होती, सहज एके दिवशी Bookworm library तर्फे मुलांसाठी होणारे वाचन उपक्रमा बद्दल कळलं आणि मी Bookworm चा भाग झाले. या उपक्रमाला Mobile Outreach Program म्हणतात, ह्या उपक्रमा मधे आम्ही गोवातिल Cacra पणजी, Live Happy, Assagao, BLC […]
Abstract Art as an Entry Point into Artmaking with children
Written by Sanika Dhakephalkar When I began teaching art a few years ago, it was without any formal training in either art or teaching. So I began by learning about teaching art by reading. Coordinating the Tree Book Project as a part of Bookworm’s Mehlli Gobhai Visual Arts program gave me the opportunity to attempt […]
Mosaic of Hope
Almost twelve years ago when we began to reach out to communities on the margins, our intention was simply about scaffolding. Children on the margins of social, economic, health, literacy, identity, language, caste, ethnicity , development and perhaps more indicators are compromised for fuller life experiences. We imagined some story joy, some book joy will […]
Reading Portal
Library spaces , including children’s corners in libraries inherited a desirable atmosphere of silence from time past. This imagination stemmed from a theory around learning that believed that mental attention was only possible when all external sounds ceased as distractors. It was also reinforced by the scholarly atmosphere that academic libraries generated when an aura […]