A Russian folktale reaches Chimbel
Written by Neelashi Mangal Terence: Gulnaaz! (He sits on the mat they had just laid on the floor and kids sit around him in curiosity.) Gulnaaz: Sir! Kaunsi story hai? Terence: Russian story about a little girl. Gulnaaz, a 10-year old girl is a senior in the community library program group. She wore a floral […]
Advancing development of library practitioners
NT KURIOCITY The ‘Parag’ initiative of Tata Trusts and Goa-based Bookworm Trust recently announced the successful conclusion of a first-of-its-kind Library Educator’s Course (LEC) for professional development of library practitioners. The event was presided over by Minister for Art and Culture Govind Gawde. A professional development course, the LEC has been developed by Tata Trusts, […]
My Initial Experiences at Bookworm
For two years I passed by this unassuming red building named Bookworm. I never thought of entering, thinking that it was only a children’s library (my loss). My journey at Bookworm started when a friend, Krystle, who works with them told me about the work they did and asked whether I would be interested in […]
Picture Poetry or Poetree
What did the good teacher’s do, when the children were not reading poetry. That’s right! They shaped it up! The book ‘Picture a Poem’ by Gina Douthwaite (Author, Illustrator), allowed us to do just that. It had poems in all sorts of shapes – rocket, shoe, bat, dinosaur and more. We read some of these […]
CRAWLING By Apoorva Parab
Found myself in a book, big and boring.. No laughter, no innocence, no imagination, no stories.. Enough of law, enough of lexicons.. Packed my apple and went searching.. Blinded by the colours and happiness.. Deafened by sweet innocent laughs everywhere.. This is where I belong.. So many stories to crawl on.. But division was here […]
2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning
Written by Neeraj N 2 Days with Bookworm: Observing LIS and MOP and Learning Stealing When I began working with children, 3 years back, I read Gijubhai Badheka’s book ‘Divaswapna’. In the book he writes about the experiments he has done in a classroom of a government school and immensely stresses on the power of […]
Book Recommendation for AECED ENGAGE ISSUE 1: 2017-18
Cacra wall painting
Last when I was painting my wall as a time pass I had never thought that the next wall I will paint will be for Bookworm. After conducting an Art workshop for the chimbel children I had developed some kind of connection with them. Not visiting Cacra library much for MOP sessions I had not […]
Exploring the Summer Night Sky through Stories
What can be done on a summer’s night, which cannot be done on a summer’s day? Lying down beneath the dome of our sky and gazing above. No clouds are likely to float by. Even if they choose to visit on a no-moon night, they glisten a silver grey, just for you. Somehow the hot, […]
The Promise
Do you know what promise means? Of course you do and the children in Cacra and Chimbel know it too! They shared with me some of the promises that they had made and those that they had kept too! It was good to know how the children felt about the word ‘promise’. Their understanding was […]