Funny Fred At MOP Taleigao
The Taleigao MOP site has a serious age divide. The group attracts really little ones who are emerging into literacy and reading and slightly older more motivated readers who want to emerge into the literate world. The book I had chosen was Funny Fred. A simple yet charming book by Pete Coplan about Fred’s first […]
Current Openings at Bookworm – January 2014
Wanted graduates with a passion for education to work part time or full time in projects initiated by Bookworm. Email at careers@bookwormgoa.in or Call 0832 2451233 between 10.00 – 1.00 – 3.00 – 7.00 . Other openings for Summer of 2014 is available at https://www.bookwormgoa.in/bookworm/careers/
Bookworms at Kathavana, Children’s literature Festival by Azim Premji Foundation
Kathavana was imagined as a Children’s Literature Festival over 3 days in the heart of ‘old’ Bangalore. The Festival made efforts in programming to cover a wide range of dimensions of Literature from oral, performing arts, print and visual media. Authors and illustrators were invited to interact with children and conduct workshops. In addition there […]
Christmas at the Library
On the 24th of December, while cribs are being finished off and stars are being lit, while sweets are being filled and fried and carolers drinking ginger tea, our Mobile Outreach Team organised a Christmas visit to Bookworm library for two MOP sites. St. Inez and Taleigao. The children from the Taleigao site dressed up […]
Special Christmas Books
2013, I have squeezed in many different dimensions of work around books almost like Charlie Brown, I find two aspects have been central and they dominate my vision for work in 2014. Good books that encompass not just a story that remains central but also illustrations that dominate and provide a visual feast to my […]
A Snowman in Goa?!
For The Snowman Story Book by Raymond Briggs; the lesson plan goes like this Game: Let’s play Ice and Melt. Whoops of joy on both sites, Tonca and Taleigao. Great fun and poses with the freeze motion. Even the bigger children have fun play acting and the grown men who play volley ball five feet […]
Helen is back!
Helen Hitchcock an old friend who extended support to Bookworm’s school book treasury to support a school in Mandrem in 2009, has been involved with Bookworm in many small and big ways since. We have not seen Helen over the past months and while we kept Helen on our mailing list and in our hearts […]
A Happy 8 Months at Tonca MOP
8 months at Tonca MOP! On the one hand it feels like it’s been longer than that; the book moments, the happy moments, the moments of connecting with the kids, the odd moments of frustration; they all seem too many for such a short amount of time. On the other hand, the year has flown […]
Biblioburro
We enlarged our copy of Biblioburro. This is a significant act for BW. We enlarge only those books that the team ( opinionated and outspoken!) agree upon. So when Jeannette Winter’s Biblioburro, a true story about Luis Soriano and Alpha and Beto made it to the ‘ blown up’ status the book itself begins to […]
Reading in the Park – Aldona
We planned and slotted a day for a RiP. RiPs at Bookworm do not mean anyone is dead or dying . A RiP is a life surging energising Reading in the Park initiative. If you have a park, we will read in it. This being the mission, we chose Aldona, our new village of adoption. […]