Recommended Books for 10 – 13 year olds, told humorously
Moin and the Monsters – Anushka Ravishankar Moin the Monster Songster – Anushka Ravishankar Mayil will Not be Quiet – Niveditha Subramaniam Mostly Madly Mayil – Niveditha Subramaniam and Sowmya Rajendran Ha Ha Ha Hasya – Ashok Rajagopalan Dungeon Tales – Venita Coelho My Nana is a nutcase – Ranjit Lal Book Uncle and Me […]
An Online Story Sharing Experience
The lockdown, sudden and complete, brought the library to a standstill, as we went from less programming to no programming, and finally had to put a stop to the return and borrowing of books as well. For the first few days after this abrupt halt, everyone retreated into themselves and their homes and sunk into […]
Stitching in the Library
Besides the books, an element in Bookworm that runs through the shelves, across the walls and hides in secret spaces in the Library, are the stitches. Stitching is a much practiced craft at Bookworm, and each person who joins the team learns to stitch, from hand stitched logos, to collaborative stitching activities, that when put […]
The Struggle
Our Libraries in School program runs through the school year with little or no breaks, and plans change and evolve as each week draws by. This year, we decided to focus our direct intervention with a fixed and focussed number of schools, widening our outreach through a simultaneous teacher training program. As such, the school […]
Going on an Adventure
Following the midterm exams and with holidays ongoing, we wanted to do something different at our community library site at BLC. Being a boy’s home, the children generally spend much of their time inside during the holidays and restlessness hovers around within the walls. We decided to do a session based on the story ‘Sam […]
Connections Between and Within
Often when people think of what a library session does, they imagine it simply as a session that would help in learning to read, and to build some literacy skills. But how do we talk about everything else that happens when we listen and interact with stories? During our library sessions, there are some things […]
Something as precious as Gold…
Once a week, every Wednesday, we visit a small community library site, nestled within a boys home and for a few brief hours, unfold the magic of stories among them. The session brings together around 10 boys who stay, play, study and work together within this home. In this group is L who struggles to […]
Work Culture in a Library
‘This is a Library. Crossroads of civilization. Refuge of all the Arts, against the ravages of time. Armoury of Fearless Truth against whispering rumour. Incessant Trumpet of Trade. From this place, words may fly abroad, not to perish as digital waves, but fixed in time. Not corrupted by the hurrying hand, but verified in proof. […]
A Month in the Life of a Library
Each month, we compile a monthly library report that encompasses all that happened in the Library during the preceding month. The following is a brief report of the happenings in the Library, during the month of September. These reports not only allow us to note and record, happenings, changes, events and plans, but also allow […]
This Book
Every once in a while, a mail from Sujata will appear saying ‘We must have this book for the Library’, and reading about it I agree, ’We must’! Depending on our current ‘funds allotted to buy books’ we then either buy it or add it to our wish list. A few weeks ago, another such […]