Bookworm Events – February 2019
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 […]
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 […]
Bookshelf Travels
For the next issue of Torchlight, go look at your bookshelves and find the story of that book you borrowed but never returned… Send us your entry. And please share this widely, thank you.
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 […]
Gardening experience at Bookworm
I love being surrounded by nature. Having a hot cup of tea in the evening, amidst plants, flowers and the setting sun, is a favourite part of my day. Since my childhood I have liked gardening. If a friend at school ever gave me a rose, I would bring it home and give it to […]
Bookworm Events – November 2018
A Month in the Life of a Library
Each month, we compile a monthly library report that encompasses all that happened in the Library during the preceding month. The following is a brief report of the happenings in the Library, during the month of September. These reports not only allow us to note and record, happenings, changes, events and plans, but also allow […]
Representation in Music for Joshua
Only one in every 100 children’s books features a main character from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic background, a study commissioned by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK in 2017 revealed. The study reviewed 9,115 books published for children in the year and found the collection wanting. In 2017, Lee and […]
Adventurous Eels
As part of the Professional Development of the LiS (Libraries in Schools) team, we were asked to prepare for a Book Talk on a book from the ‘Outstanding Shelf’. I was excited about this and asked for recommendations from the other team members. They suggested different books. Yet when I stood in front of the […]