“Teacher, I’ll read to you!”
A busy Wednesday. Many stories already; not all from a storybook, a number from the kids in Bookworm’s LiS classes. More stories are to come. Today is Tonca MOP. The space that we usually use has been taken over for Mahashivratri celebrations the next day. A warning bell goes off in my head immediately; ‘Will […]
New Community Library Space in Chimbel
Change is good Our community library space in Chimbel was one of the biggest achievement in terms of being a reading promotion agent for the community. Started some 6 months ago in a rented permanent space, the program has seen good number of children coming in, listening to stories and borrowing books regularly. One of […]
Featured in Tulika Newsletter
Our two blog posts are featured in Tulika Newsletter today . Read more here…
Bookworm Jumble Sale 2014-Ready-Steady-Go!
Reading “The dot” at the Mobile Outreach Program
A dot is not necessarily an important thing in the life of literacy. Or so we think. I asked the children at MOP what they would call a dot and they said point, spot, circle, round, full stop, end point, bindi and finally we got dot. Why the fuss? Wise story participants that they are, […]
Raising Money to Raise Readers by Recycling and Reusing – Bookworm Jumble Sale on 9th February
The Hindu listed Bookworm as "Reading Warrior"
Read the entire article at http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/turning-the-page/article5643871.ece
Jumble Sale 2014
Bookworm’s Jumble Sale supports our Libraries in Schools program which takes library experience and resources to 20+ schools in different parts of Goa where we do interventions in different models. We deliver over 3000+ books to the schools we work. More about Jumble sale of previous years are available at https://www.bookwormgoa.in/2013/02/13/thank-you-for-supporting-jumble-sale-2013-we-are-doing-chimbel-jumble-sale/ https://www.bookwormgoa.in/2012/12/28/jumble-sale-jumble-sale-jumble-sale/
Relationships in and with Books
Our Mobile Outreach Program has given me the best of opportunities, challenges and memories . This is mainly because of the exchanges and sharing with the children through stories and books . One of my favourites is “Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs” by Tomie dePaola who is one of my new favourite author and illustrator. He […]
Illustrators Inspire
This week across our MOP sites, we have been reading Basava and the Dots of Fire by Radhika Chaddha and illustrated by Bhakti Phatak. An old Bookworm favourite, published by Tulika. The story builds on a simple logic of the web of support. Children identify with that value seamlessly even though they might break the […]