Bookworm Trust

Mobile Outreach Progam Junior at St. Inez – Stitching, Stories and more…

St.Inez site with the little ones is building on emergent literacy skills and language quite powerfully. No sooner does the mat get laid out and the box of books appear and one can sense the presence of the little tots, slowly making their way to the mat. They approach hesitantly not sure who the Resource […]

Sharada Mandir School batch of 1986 supports Bookworm

Data at the end of this academic year put our ‘unreturned’ MIA books at 405 ! This is significant but must also be seen in light of more than 12000 books rotated in 1 academic year in 8 intervention schools. We recognise that a  library program needs replenishment and refreshment. Our work is blessed, it […]

QUEST visits Bookworm

Mid March and Bookworm had visitors. 5 people from QUEST an organisation that works with learning improvement in Thane Dt of Maharashtra visited Bookworm.  It always is a powerful reminder that the work we are doing in our small patch of earth is important enough for people to come and observe and learn from. We […]

The Sweetest Mango

It is hard to not know we are in approaching Summer in Goa. Even if you choose to ignore the swarms of hatted tourists on two wheelers and the rising humidity, the scores of mango trees laden with green fruit remind you that sweetness in around the corner. We brought The Sweetest Mango to our […]

Reading Nabiya and More

When I first spotted Nabiya in the newly published collection from Tulika, I felt that faint tingle of happiness that awakens in me when in the presence of a potentially good book. The water colour cover illustrations, the setting of a ‘basti’, the back of an female character with a football in hand, all evoked […]

Bookworm Summer Program 2014 Schedule

Bookworm’s Summer Program combines the best of creative language arts to give participants an enriching creative experience. Each daily session is themed and will cover all language art and creative areas of reading, writing, creating, imagination, discovery and exploration. Sessions will also include short outdoor experiences linked to the theme and children will be supervised […]