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 […]
Two Months in a Library: Learning on Both Sides of the Tracks
“How come you’re not wearing a sari?” “There’s a new box of Non-Fiction books in the library!” “Today is the sketch walk, no?” “Which car did you bring?” “I have 23 rupees for the library party!” “Didi is not giving me the key—Didi!!!” This was my welcome one morning. Not your typical “Good morning, […]
Feeling Picture Books
The place of Picture Books in a library collection is a contested one. Children who belong to ‘hard’ levelled reading programs learn to use the Picture Book as a marker of fluency. Parents who grew up before the big boom of the Picture Book market , within the country and globally, see it quite like […]
ANOTHER Library in Goa
A geographical representation of Bookworm’s work in Goa, is imbalanced to say the least. In our Strategic Plan for 2022- 2025, our Trustees indicated that we need to permanently cross the largest Tidal river in the state – Zuari. We have been flitting across intermittently for many years but we never felt brave and strong […]
A normal day like no other
It seemed like a normal parent’s evening at Bookworm. Twenty five parents and their child/ ren were invited to the library to both experience the library and engage with a psychologist on the role of books in the life of a child. The rooms were beautifully arranged, laid out with toys, play tents, blocks, cars, […]
CELEBRATING ANOTHER DIFFERENT TALES BOOK
November, 2024 “Can you come to a Consultation on the Different Tales books ?” Within 48 hours I had rearranged two other meetings , a presentation, domestic arrangements, and found myself enroute to Hyderabad at the appointed hour – giddily poring over photos and notes from various note books , conversations with […]
Another Encounter With Children
What is new you may ask about yet another encounter with children ? And you are perfectly correct in making this enquiry because haven’t I written and spoken enough about this ? Somehow it seems not. Somehow I am unable to shed the vestiges of the possibility that children impose upon my being when I […]
Bookworm & Prayog – Inter – Beings
Prayog is a library organisation in Gopalganj Dt of Bihar and is lead by our LEC alumni Surya Prakash Rai. We met Surya as a Wipro Foundation Fellow in 2018 when, he rather reluctantly ( his words!) agreed to participate in an Introduction to Library workshop , Bookworm hosts with Wipro Foundation support every year. […]
Read Programme 2021-22 | 2nd Parental Webinar (Nur-II)
We welcome prior questions and concerns from parents over email to sujata@bookwormgoa.in for an interactive and meaningful Q&A session
LiS Program a responsive entity of Bookworm
Bookworm’s Libraries in School Program birthed in 2011 fondly referred to now as v1.0 and in the decade past has enabled a pop – up library experience in many schools, in and around Panjim, Goa. The selection of schools in the past decade was organic in some ways and strategic in others. We were initially […]