Lights! Camera! Action! … Drumroll … Theatrical Trailer!!!
Written by Meghna | I knew something dramatic was cooking for the launch of Maxine’s “Threading Texts within Contexts” and I was quite excited to watch Team Bookworm embark on a story telling journey of a new sort. I had imagined it to be a dramatic reading of excerpts from the book or monologues on…I […]
Our first sale on flight
Written by Ajaa | Some of the most unexpected and pleasant things happen at the most unexpected places. This time in the blue autumn sky! After ‘Threading texts within contexts’ by our revered and so dear Maxine Berntsen, was released at Goa, Maxine and I took a flight back to Hyderabad; a bit tired, elated […]
Celebrating a Thousand Moons
Maxine Bernsten one of the finest teachers ever, celebrated her 80th with Bookworm in Goa. We were honored, delighted and excited to play a part in this journey. Maxine and only Maxine could have managed by her presence alone to bring together 60 + people from all parts of the country to Goa to celebrate […]
Bindi Su visiting schools…
Written by Barkha Over the last month we read aloud the story of ‘Bindi Su’ across standard I in all 4 schools. Bindi Su is a little red car who doesn’t want to stop! Bindi Su is the first of a series of ‘early readers’ children’s books to be published by Bookworm. The aim of […]
Bindi Su in one of my Classes
Stories are central to the work I do with my children. I tell, listen to, feel, perform, sing and dance stories in my class. My relationship with the story-book/ the story-text however usually alters with each group I work in. With my younger students (ages 6-8) the story-book does not really play a dominant role. […]
Bookworm at Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR)
Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR) organised a Diwali Camp for children last week and invited Bookworm to conduct two micro sessions on Stories. The brief was brief. Something about stories/ either reading or other to get children interested in books. Briefs of this nature tell us two things. One is that organisers have […]
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 […]
Sharada Mandir School Fair
A confirmation call from the Principal of the Junior School of Sharada Mandir School had us setting up our boxes with a range of pre selected books from various Indian Publishers. On the 5th of October we were busy displaying and arranging our collection in the school. From previous experiences of book fairs we had […]
Bindi Su is a NCERT recommended storybook now!
We are proud that we are on the list with other indian publishers and have made a space for a Goa based book on the NCERT list. Thanks to all who supports to bring stories to more and more readers.
Class Act with Sethu
Our friend at Sethu, Nandu ( also known as Nandita:-)) , warmly agreed to the idea of enabling us to participate in a teacher training program called Class Act that is organised every year. We know sufficient amounts now about our own work with reading, literacy and literature and feel compelled to share this. At […]