Libraries and an atmosphere of silence
I am only just out of a workshop as a trainer where I attempted together with a colleague Usha Mukunda to steer a group towards understanding the long standing rule ‘ Silence’ in the library. Most of us have grown up with this rule, and have forgotten to question and or reflect on it. Why […]
Outstanding Books
The title itself is such an exalted duo of words. The word, outstanding needs to be unpacked, the word book is one we are very familiar with. But as a young child on a MOP site reminded me months ago after borrowing a slim collection of collected paper masquerading as a story book, “ ye […]
Library Educators Course
Vidya Bhawan Society ( Udaipur, Rajasthan) has launched the first ever Library Educators Course. This course objectives are To enable library educators to conceptualize library as a shared space for all curricular areas, especially reading for pleasure. To capacitate and sensitize library educators to respond to the context-specific needs of their children, school and community. […]
Booktalk cards at Chimbel MOP
This week we are using booktalk cards at all our sites. These are cards that prompt some reflection about a book and are beautifully designed by Eva for Bookworm. The sets are colour coded to aid the Resource Person as a guide. Younger readers can choose cards that ask for a booktalk around simpler concepts […]
Our boat landed!
It was a good evening, talking about Boats on Land. I liked how we were able to stretch our dialogue into areas of identity, sexuality, language and forms, perspectives and stances, emotional areas, geographical spaces, intellectual dimensions and character analysis. It was a very rich discussion and I feel we talked our way into […]
Nurturing Readers
MOP at St. Inez is gaining ground. Literally. We have moved out of the wee temple space on dry days and use the courtyard in front. It is a tight squeeze with 22 children, a couple of onlookers and 3 RPs. Children sense we have arrived and begin to come, toting BW bags. Small things […]
Lucky Day
Thursday at Chimbel MOP, we were all set to read Antonio’s Lucky Day. I was excited because this Mexican folk tale had to resonate with the children. It was reminiscent of the Foolish Milkmaid tale that finds its ways into many school language books. I had a game planned, a brilliant scrap book activity, If […]
Introspecting on St.Inez MOP
I keep returning to St. Inez MOP site and feel renewed that we do a weekly Tuesday session here. The community at St. Inez basti is so supportive. Parents who are sitting outside their homes see us trudging in, blue book boxes in hand and children are admonished to get ready to go to the […]
Workshop for Teachers at Gurukul Academy, Ponda
Gurukul Academy is keen to grow their library program. Keen enough to ask us consistently to work with their teachers, to borrow boxes of books, to ask us to train their teachers on library planning and story telling. So over two Saturdays in July – August, BW team set off . I find trainings outside BW […]
Booktalk with Jeet Thayil
Booktalking is always an uplifting session at Bookworm. This month we read Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and had the honor and opportunity to talk with Jeet at Bookworm. Whenever we booktalk with the author we remind ourselves almost implicitly to behave to say what we think the author might like to hear, but with Jeet, […]