The Sweetest Mango
It is hard to not know we are in approaching Summer in Goa. Even if you choose to ignore the swarms of hatted tourists on two wheelers and the rising humidity, the scores of mango trees laden with green fruit remind you that sweetness in around the corner. We brought The Sweetest Mango to our […]
Reading Nabiya and More
When I first spotted Nabiya in the newly published collection from Tulika, I felt that faint tingle of happiness that awakens in me when in the presence of a potentially good book. The water colour cover illustrations, the setting of a ‘basti’, the back of an female character with a football in hand, all evoked […]
About blooming
We had picked Leo the Late Bloomer to read across MOP sites last week. Leo the Late Bloomer is a special book on multiple levels ( Like all MOP selection choices, it is strategic and chosen with thought and care!) As a story the central character is a tiger cub. Across linguistic groups the tiger […]
MOP Junior
It has been 2 months now that we are taking beginner steps towards an Emergent Library Program. The idea being to draw the little ones who stand by the fringes of the MOP circle, fascinated by us going around, reading, drawing , colouring but never being part of the program. Multi age program are hard […]
Aldona Community Supports Bookworm’s Jumble Sale
J = Just the right time U = under the rain tree in Aldona M = money raised for the Alban Couto Library Program B = bustle and busy shoppers came through out the day L = lots of support and positive energy from the Aldona Institute Members E = excitement and ever lasting optimism […]
Reading “The dot” at the Mobile Outreach Program
A dot is not necessarily an important thing in the life of literacy. Or so we think. I asked the children at MOP what they would call a dot and they said point, spot, circle, round, full stop, end point, bindi and finally we got dot. Why the fuss? Wise story participants that they are, […]
Go Bindi Su!
The little red car that Milan created and then painted into a book with us is driving into classrooms this week. Bindi Su revved up and showed up at St Thomas Boys School and it was a good place to be. A classroom full of boys were delighted to find a car in a book […]
Illustrators Inspire
This week across our MOP sites, we have been reading Basava and the Dots of Fire by Radhika Chaddha and illustrated by Bhakti Phatak. An old Bookworm favourite, published by Tulika. The story builds on a simple logic of the web of support. Children identify with that value seamlessly even though they might break the […]
Stories in Graded Readers
The graded / levelled reader has long been criticized for its artificial chunking and arrangement of text. Readers of this nature have been cited as the texts that destroy the natural ability to make meaning whilst reading and often lead the ‘reader’ into a fine pattern of breaking up words and decoding them. Sing Mother […]
Shivaji’s Exposure visit to Bookworm
We have been waiting for Shivaji a long time. This is Shivaji Godhraj, a gentleman who works hard and quietly in the hilly terrain of Dhadgaon Nandurbar District , Maharashtra. I have been particularly wanting to bring Shivaji to Goa to share our library work with him as he works with an organisation Janarth that […]