Hair Scare
One of the primary qualities of good stories is the doorways they provide. A doorway to go in and reflect and connect with self and then to go out and connect with other people. These synapses come to all who read. However, being adult I tend to seek these entry points for the children I […]
Another LiS School
Dayanand Arya High School, Neura has joined the LiS family. Today, the 10th of January, the red LiS van drove up the mud road in Neura, Ilhas Goa to begin another school library program. The program will be offered to DAHS every Saturday and will presently be in Grade 1 , 5, 6 and 7. […]
Funny Fred At MOP Taleigao
The Taleigao MOP site has a serious age divide. The group attracts really little ones who are emerging into literacy and reading and slightly older more motivated readers who want to emerge into the literate world. The book I had chosen was Funny Fred. A simple yet charming book by Pete Coplan about Fred’s first […]
Bookworms at Kathavana, Children’s literature Festival by Azim Premji Foundation
Kathavana was imagined as a Children’s Literature Festival over 3 days in the heart of ‘old’ Bangalore. The Festival made efforts in programming to cover a wide range of dimensions of Literature from oral, performing arts, print and visual media. Authors and illustrators were invited to interact with children and conduct workshops. In addition there […]
Christmas at the Library
On the 24th of December, while cribs are being finished off and stars are being lit, while sweets are being filled and fried and carolers drinking ginger tea, our Mobile Outreach Team organised a Christmas visit to Bookworm library for two MOP sites. St. Inez and Taleigao. The children from the Taleigao site dressed up […]
Library Without Walls
The monsoon season abated late in Goa this year. We said bye to our last monsoon shower in November. The mossy ‘angan’ began to dry out at St. Thomas Boys Primary School while the energy within the classroom was anything but drying out. The general feeling of wanting to get outdoors grew stronger every visit […]
Special Christmas Books
2013, I have squeezed in many different dimensions of work around books almost like Charlie Brown, I find two aspects have been central and they dominate my vision for work in 2014. Good books that encompass not just a story that remains central but also illustrations that dominate and provide a visual feast to my […]
A Snowman in Goa?!
For The Snowman Story Book by Raymond Briggs; the lesson plan goes like this Game: Let’s play Ice and Melt. Whoops of joy on both sites, Tonca and Taleigao. Great fun and poses with the freeze motion. Even the bigger children have fun play acting and the grown men who play volley ball five feet […]
Bookworms going to be at Kathavana Children’s Festival in Bangalore…
Bookworms will be soon making their way to Bangalore to participate in Kathavana; Children’s Festival by Azim Premji Foundation from 12th and 14th of December 2013. If you are around, come and meet us in our stall…
Reading Adventure is on!
Reading can take you on an adventure and at Bookworm we are the tour planners. So ready get set go. Some of our most special books have been ‘adventurised’. Sheena, Priya and myself have pulled out books, developed brief extension ideas and drawn on Niju to help us lay them out and we have a […]