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Stories from School
06Jun

Stories from School

A teacher who stayed back after school so the library van could still meet the children. A young reader who found the courage to share her thoughts with her classmates. A child who stepped into a leadership role and discovered her voice through books. These moments may seem small, but they reveal the quiet ways […]

Critical Conversations: Looking at Children’s Literature in Marathi
03Jun

Critical Conversations: Looking at Children’s Literature in Marathi

As a community of Library Educators our growing responsibility is to facilitate the exchange and engagement of books with readers. For this we need to be deeply and intimately involve with the Collection in the library which will enable us to have conversations with readers to provoke thinking and feeling. This as we know is […]

Grown Ups at Storytime
25Apr

Grown Ups at Storytime

Blog written by: Sujata Noronha Bookworm this April has been heavy and ponderous, the weather uncooperative and oppressive and yet I have had two of the finest and most surprising days at the library because of stories, now in my 21st year of practice ! We have begun a new initiative this year, to draw […]

Libraries in School: Bridging the Gap
18Apr

Libraries in School: Bridging the Gap

Blog written by Rucha Prabhudesai (Bookworm Intern) As children, we all had spaces that felt safe, warm, and welcoming. When I was growing up, Bookworm was one of those spaces. Bookworm to me was a place where I could get an abundance of books and participate in a variety of sessions that left me with […]

Parent Engagement in Children’s Libraries
11Apr

Parent Engagement in Children’s Libraries

Written by: Jamyang Gyaltsen, LEC Alumnus and Director of Manjushri Education Services I would like to begin by engaging the readers in a brief exercise. If I ask you to write the first three things that instantly come to your mind upon hearing the phrase children’s library, what would they be? Would your list include […]

“I See a Red Auto Library Every Day”: When Books Begin to Travel
15Mar

“I See a Red Auto Library Every Day”: When Books Begin to Travel

I still remember the exact pause in the conversation. “I see a red auto library passing by my house every day,” a member of the AACCL library said to me, almost casually, while we were talking about something else entirely. That sentence stayed with me. It wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t polished. But it landed. There […]

Nurturing Book Joy for SFAL (SCHOOL FOR APPROPRIATE LEARNING) children
15Mar
HBL

Nurturing Book Joy for SFAL (SCHOOL FOR APPROPRIATE LEARNING) children

At Bookworm, we believe that every child deserves the joy of reading books. The HBL programme, apart from curating playsets, also conducts sessions for children with special needs. Beyond the books on the shelves, we strive to make the library a nurturing ecosystem, a place where every child feels the quiet encouragement to explore at […]