Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers. Does the name sound familiar? No? Maybe not to all but maybe familiar to children and adults who are addicted to reading all kinds of picture books. I was introduced to Oliver Jeffers in the library quite accidentally one day almost a year ago when I pulled out a book called ‘Stuck’. It […]
Sherlock Holmes: Books V/S Celluloid
My first experience with the maverick detective was as a pre-pubescent when our teacher showed us one of the old classic Sherlock Holmes movies. I remember being very fascinated by his mannerisms and how he solved the mystery, even though I was too young to understand deductive logic. Many years later, I received one of […]
An invitation to Dialogue this Saturday with Radha Gopalan
Dialoguing around Water “…water that is everywhere before it is somewhere; water that is in rain before it is in rivers, soaks before it flows, spreads before it gathers, blurs before it clarifies; water that is ephemeral, transient, uncertain, interstitial, chaotic, omnipresent….” Design in the Terrain of Water by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha […]
LEC English 2017
The Library Educator’s Course is a Professional Development Certificate course developed by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts and being offered in English for the first time by Bookworm Trust, Goa in 2017.
Poetry Appreciation Group forming at Bookworm
An Invitation Dear friend of words, This year in close collaboration with Jugneeta Sudan who describes herself poetically in the note attached, we are reforming a POETRY APPRECIATION GROUP that will meet once a month at Bookworm. We are aware that there are many groups and they abound and they must. The more we believe […]
Special Delivery
Yes, we are a library and yes we receive boxes of books. Yes, this is the fund raising month and yes, boxes of stuff are being left at the library doorstep for the Jumble but a few days back a delivery van pulled up. Many eyes lifted from screen, pages of books and faces and […]
Bookworm Jumble Sale 2017 – 12th Feb
EVERYTHING you donate goes towards helping someone read. Reading IS everything! Do spread the word, forward this information to others on your mailing list and let us know of people who could donate, volunteer and help us. OUR WISHLIST We gladly accept donations of ANY new and used-but-almost-new stuff IN USABLE CONDITION such as: TOYS […]
Be the Change!
Written by Heather Peres Da Silva I was captivated by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegadus’ book, “Be the Change.” It is the perfect book to read as we enter the new year. It will inspire hope for a better tomorrow and love for the humble grandfather who led by example. The book gently teaches a […]
My First Official Trip: Library Auditing of The Hongirana School of Excellence
I was going with the Bookworm team (Sujata & Niju) for a library audit of The Hongirana School of Excellence, Sagar, Karnataka. This was a first experience for me, an official work trip. Thrilled to be on an official trip, new place, new people, new experience, new lessons….! So much to look forward to.Auditing, setting […]
Travelling with my daughter for work
It was somewhere in mid-October that Sujata asked me if I would be interested in travelling to Bangalore for a Children’s Literature Festival called Kathavana, hosted by the Azim Premji University. I have never ever travelled for work purposes of any sort ever and this was a bolt from the blue. Of course my default […]