Picture Books: Who are they for ?
Update: For those you missed the talk, you can listen to the same here. Thanks to Frederick Noronha for recording and uploading. I love Picture Books so it was fitting for me to use the space created by the Design Centre, Porvorim for me to talk about them. I loved that there was an audience […]
A reader is born
I remember so vividly a day in the Chimbel library room where I was reading with a child whilst the whole room was busy and bustling with raised voices, quiet chatter, intoned hum of independent reading, a slim frame crowded the door. I looked up into the eyes of a distinctly curious boy who immediately […]
The Boy & Dragon Stories and Other Tales
Suniti Namjoshi is a writer who respects her readers and the only fitting ‘return gift’ is to respect her right back by reading everything she writes ! This slim, almost gentle looking book is packed with little and big thoughts that set you – thinking ! A Boy and A Dragon and you may immediately […]
International Network of Emerging Library Innovators
Bookworm is honoured to have Niju Mohan selected for International Network of Emerging Library Innovators along with others for a fellowship program. The International Network of Emerging Library Innovators (INELI) is the global library leadership capacity building programme supported by the Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photo courtesy: mssrf.org
Bookworms full circle
It is rather atypical to have full circle moments and yet, for those of us who choose to work with children and books this is the order of the day ! At the end of this past year I had 2 very special such moments. Advay Burte all of 11 years was a Bookworm member […]
Library Educators Workshop – Kalike, Karnataka
Perhaps the most fulfilling aspect of my work in Bookworm is that I get to share our experiences in a learning environment with other people. I was in Yadgir District in North East Karnataka doing a workshop for 50 ‘animators’ who will open library rooms in 50 Government schools and the joy of sharing books, […]
I have girls !
In my very own family, I am surrounded by boys. On a recent Bookworm trip to Mumbai I was surrounded by girls. For 6 days, experiences of a unique kind for me clouded my heart and soul and I am grateful. Krupa, of the happy chatter, bubbling kind of energy smiled with my heart beat […]
Representing our creative selves
This school break, it seemed imperative that I enable the team to reflect on self, go inwards and strengthen their own personhoods. This need arises from the nature of our work. It makes very heavy demands on us as people and I feel in order to keep going and nurturing others we must on occasion […]
Theatre on the Beach
The sea shore is about 3 kms from Bookworm. We drive past everyday, sometimes more than twice a day and have not explored the space for what it can do to our spirit and body. Miramar Beach from Bookworm’s perspective has been left to the bus loads of tourists who make a bee line for […]
The Upside Down Bookworm
Perhaps, all library spaces get sectioned and organised into genres/ categories/ age groups/ quiet and active zones and what not. Bookworm has been no different, in that, through out time, given the space available we have played around with organisation and turned upside down, right side up and down again. We had another topsy turvy […]