Kidscook
When you’re cooking in the library,You’re learning all the while — To pour and measure, mix and stir And sift flour into a pile. Scrub your hands before you start Tie your apron too Find pots’n pans and measuring cups cause you know what to do! . Read the recipe, step-by-step,Mixing, stirring as you […]
Thumbing Through
A series of books designed and published by Tulika around thumb prints as illustrative motifs and tell of small tales in the lives of Thumbi and Thangi. From medieval periods the finger print has been a ready unique resource for identity marking. In the 21st Century we continue to use finger printing for authenticating our […]
What are students looking for ?
I hate to sound cliched because it might mean we are giving up on our youth, but a book fair in a large school was a good reality test on keeping the faith or giving up We were invited to conduct a Book Fair on the 12th of August, a day that is dedicated in […]
Preschoolers ? Who cares?
Late last year, it seemed like the Pre School Program would be threatened with the imminent exit of Elaine – our then Preschool Educator Goddess , who created story magic every Saturday for hundreds off little ones over the past 9 years at Bookworm. Like all departures we rallied, got together as a group at […]
Raising a Reader In-house
It is the mission of the work I choose to do, to raise readers. I want to excite them with the possibilities of the book and the story within. I want to ignite the spark of imagination, reflection and learning that comes from good books and I invest enormous amounts of energy in doing this, […]
LiS at Sharon School, Mulund Mumbai
Goa to Bombay ( okay, read Mumbai) is where the Library in School Program has a new site. It all began some months ago when Sharon English School, Mulund, Mumbai showed an interest in how LiS functions and how we could share our pedagogy and material with their teachers. Since the vision and mission of […]
Dolphin Talk
The Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphin is not a strange mammal in our world. Sightings, advertisements, and talk about dolphin cruises have been heard by the MOP children, so it was a relatively simple exercise to glide the dolphin into our conversation of the week across MOP Sites. Krystal found a video on dolphin behaviour that […]
Scrambling with scrabble
I took the scrabble tiles with me on my Thursday visit to the Chimbel Community Library. Such joy to see Faizal come up to help unload the van and Deepak and Aftab playing cricket assuring me they will come to the library, lest I ask . We went into the room that seems to shrink […]
Mobile Outreach Progam Junior at St. Inez – Stitching, Stories and more…
St.Inez site with the little ones is building on emergent literacy skills and language quite powerfully. No sooner does the mat get laid out and the box of books appear and one can sense the presence of the little tots, slowly making their way to the mat. They approach hesitantly not sure who the Resource […]
The Clown of God and the Bookworms Met St. Michael.
Our Summer Calendar schedule had us all planning to go visit St. Michael – now, he resides in the beautiful church of Taleigao 150 metres from the Library and his garden and house are one of great potential for bookworms. We aimed to have fun ( but, ofcourse) and we aimed to read a […]