All Girls
I went to an all girls school, an all girls college and now find I am doing a library program in an all girls school ! Every where I look .. girls. The atmosphere and energy of an ‘all’ girls school IS different. Sheena has been confronting me with what seems like stereotypes, but in […]
Helen is back!
Helen Hitchcock an old friend who extended support to Bookworm’s school book treasury to support a school in Mandrem in 2009, has been involved with Bookworm in many small and big ways since. We have not seen Helen over the past months and while we kept Helen on our mailing list and in our hearts […]
Biblioburro
We enlarged our copy of Biblioburro. This is a significant act for BW. We enlarge only those books that the team ( opinionated and outspoken!) agree upon. So when Jeannette Winter’s Biblioburro, a true story about Luis Soriano and Alpha and Beto made it to the ‘ blown up’ status the book itself begins to […]
The Rabbit Problem
The problem all started when we were oohing and aahing over yet another Emily Gravett book at Bookworm. Emily Gravett is a crafty illustrator and writer. I know now she is crafty in how she presents problems to readers in delightfully creative ways and she is crafty in her skill as a fine thinker , […]
Bookworm at Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR)
Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR) organised a Diwali Camp for children last week and invited Bookworm to conduct two micro sessions on Stories. The brief was brief. Something about stories/ either reading or other to get children interested in books. Briefs of this nature tell us two things. One is that organisers have […]
Reading in the Park – Aldona
We planned and slotted a day for a RiP. RiPs at Bookworm do not mean anyone is dead or dying . A RiP is a life surging energising Reading in the Park initiative. If you have a park, we will read in it. This being the mission, we chose Aldona, our new village of adoption. […]
Who ya gonna call
With respect to Ray Parker Jr If there’s somethin’ strange in your LiS class Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it’s somethin’ woerd an’ it don’t look good Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it need some sense and it is so real Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita and so we did. […]
Oral health – Mental health
At our Mobile Outreach Sites more than in our classrooms we get included into intimate details. We learn about children who are scurrying out to buy supari and others who just chewed ‘tabac’, some one who is experimenting with ‘beedi’ and despite our ever increasing pressures of library/ literacy work I felt we must get […]
Here a Narkasura.. there a Narkasura…
Everywhere over the past few weeks we have giant Narkasuras towering over us a we crouch down to read our story books or booktalk. It seemed organic to bring the Narkasura into the library program and we looked around for a book that could lead us to that theme and we were wanting 🙁 So, […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
To all of us who read and are familiar with good children’s books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is almost a cliche. I have not read aloud The Very Hungry Caterpillar in any of our MOP sites and the only reason I felt compelled to do so, is because soon I want to support someone in […]