Is it the Same for You?
“The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed mine.” Is it the Same for You? Is written by Neha Singh and illustrated by Priya Sebastian. The story centers around the life of a girl and the challenges that she goes through in […]
Why Library ‘Report’ Cards are important to children
The word report carries a lot of weight. For example, if it is a medical report the patient has to wait for the doctor to analyse it and proceed accordingly. A college report decides a student’s future course of action. In a school report card, parents and children get a view of how the child […]
Home visit turned into community visit
Back story As children, we never had our teachers coming home, for any reason, be it our progress reports or our syllabus reports or even just a cordial interaction with our parents. The concept of home visits was fairly new to us when we realised we need to do them as a community building experience […]
QUIET READING TIME – a new component
With our Libraries in School ( LiS ) program, we have been intense in taking stories to children and running a library class systematically. We try and do this in a structured way but we did not have a segment within this structure for children to read their books or go through the books independently […]
Book Talk
Book Talk (BT) is an important component of our library practice. What is a Book Talk? Book Talk is when you talk about a book that you have read and liked very much, a book that has touched your heart. You now talk about that book to others building a curiosity in them to want […]
Book Selection – What it has taught me this term
Back story In the Libraries in School program at the end of every term we bring the book boxes back to the library, where each box gets checked for damage, mending and covering. Also this is the time for the books to be rested before they are either put back on the shelf or taken […]
Improving report writing
Back Story The journey in Bookworm has been a long one. There has been many things that I have learned and got opportunities to do. In my school we did have a library, but it never interested me enough for me to go and read there. When I joined Bookworm I got introduced to a […]
The School on an Island
This year St. Bartholomew school from Chorao Island has been included in our Libraries in Schools program. It was added after we had started in the other schools and ever since we have made the entry we are on a roll! We had gone to the school to conduct the Big River Draw. Ms.Dancho, the […]
Elena’s Serenade By Campbell Geeslin Illustrated by Ana Juan
The book was recommended to me by Anandita as she felt that it was a very nice book. The cover page of this book was what tempted me to finally start reading it. The theme of this book is “Gender”. I went online to find out more about the author, illustrator and the book itself. […]