Who ya gonna call
With respect to Ray Parker Jr If there’s somethin’ strange in your LiS class Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it’s somethin’ woerd an’ it don’t look good Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it need some sense and it is so real Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita and so we did. […]
Bookworm……decoded!
If you ever spend a day at Bookworm, you might feel the need to keep a dictionary close at hand. You’ll soon find that Bookworm talk is no ordinary speak. “What’s your RA selection?” “Who is the RP for MOP today?” “Is your LP done? What’s the Ext Act.?” ‘E, What’s your food idea for […]
Oral health – Mental health
At our Mobile Outreach Sites more than in our classrooms we get included into intimate details. We learn about children who are scurrying out to buy supari and others who just chewed ‘tabac’, some one who is experimenting with ‘beedi’ and despite our ever increasing pressures of library/ literacy work I felt we must get […]
Here a Narkasura.. there a Narkasura…
Everywhere over the past few weeks we have giant Narkasuras towering over us a we crouch down to read our story books or booktalk. It seemed organic to bring the Narkasura into the library program and we looked around for a book that could lead us to that theme and we were wanting 🙁 So, […]
Team Bookworm continues to learn
In our quest to learn more about children’s books, the team met on October 14th for a workshop to discuss illustrative techniques in ‘picture books’. Brilliantly chaired by Chetna and Elaine, the study material chosen was an article by Miriam Martinez And Janis M. Harmon titled ‘Picture/Text Relationships: An Investigation of Literary Elements in Picture […]
2 years of Worming around with Bookworm
On 15th of October 2013, I completed my 2 years of working or life with Bookworm, more life than work. Let me start with the usual line that everyone uses “It has been a great learning experience, and an opportunity to grow personally and professionally.” Well it has been, I am not denying it. Quoting […]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
To all of us who read and are familiar with good children’s books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is almost a cliche. I have not read aloud The Very Hungry Caterpillar in any of our MOP sites and the only reason I felt compelled to do so, is because soon I want to support someone in […]
Libraries and an atmosphere of silence
I am only just out of a workshop as a trainer where I attempted together with a colleague Usha Mukunda to steer a group towards understanding the long standing rule ‘ Silence’ in the library. Most of us have grown up with this rule, and have forgotten to question and or reflect on it. Why […]
Exposure visit to Mumbai
As a team at Bookworm, we are constantly given chances to grow and reflect and deepen our understanding of the work we do. In this month, that opportunity came in the form of an exposure visit, to organisations that work with literacy and children’s literature in Mumbai. And so it was that a 3 person […]
Role of practitioners in Story telling
I am writing this blog post as a publisher and as a ‘practitioner’ in some way. Couple of weeks ago Poet/ Writer/ Fabulist, Suniti Namjoshi and Radhika Menon, Director of Tulika Publishers visited Bookworm library space in Taleigao for a friendly chat. During the discussion we talked about lots of things including books and storytelling. […]