Books – My Support System
Sounds like such a cliché – doesn’t it? However clichéd it may sound it is the truth as far as I am concerned. Books have taken the position of a close friend in the past few years. More so since I joined Bookworm. I have been an avid reader if one may call me that […]
My Experience as a Lead Resource Person
My tasks as an Assistant in the Libraries in School Program (LiS) include preparing for the sessions by making sure that all the resource materials required are packed. It also includes providing support to the Lead Resource Person (RP) during the sessions in every possible manner and taking charge of the returning and borrowing of […]
An insight into children experiences
Reading a story doesn’t mean just reading but also making children understand and explore their feelings and thoughts and when one gets a good response, one is sure that the children have understood the story and that feels really good!! This is a collection of the children’s responses from my sessions. I read the book […]
Stories that Challenge stereotypes
Every once in a while, you come across a story that is different. It makes you think and challenges your assumptions. One such story is ‘Drum Dream Girl’. Written by Margarita Engle, its stunning illustrations by Rafael Lopez take you on a journey to Cuba. Cuba; where there is music in everyone’s life, where only […]
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 […]
Series of Fortunate Events
2018 for Bookworm has been a year of many, many events. Some of which we engineer in our manic lets-make-a-difference kind of way and others have happened to us. In a conversation on our meeting-rug, there was a cloud of despondency around us. We had just experienced serious illness in one of our most loved […]
Bookworm Trust in Aldona
Six years ago, Bookworm started its Libraries in Schools (LiS) program in the lovely, not-so-quaint-anymore village of Aldona, in North Goa. This was due to the efforts of Dr. Mrs. Aurora Couto who wanted to keep alive the ideals of her late husband, Alban Couto. At that time, we started in only two schools of […]
Changes without and within
“Over time, everything changes”. It is a saying that I have often heard. I studied to be in the media sector and when applying for a job I held the highest hope of getting a job at Bookworm. While surfing through the internet, I had found out that there was a possibility of working with […]
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 […]
Great Initiator for Art- Lucy’s Picture
I was searching for an Art book for my school sessions and was very keen to read this picture book, Lucy’s Picture by Nicola Moon Illustrated by Alex Ayllife, as it is a book around craft and art. This book catches my eye. The book tells us the story of a girl who makes a […]