Bookworm Events – February 2019
Books – My Support System
Sounds like such a cliché – doesn’t it? However clichéd it may sound it is the truth as far as I am concerned. Books have taken the position of a close friend in the past few years. More so since I joined Bookworm. I have been an avid reader if one may call me that […]
My Experience as a Lead Resource Person
My tasks as an Assistant in the Libraries in School Program (LiS) include preparing for the sessions by making sure that all the resource materials required are packed. It also includes providing support to the Lead Resource Person (RP) during the sessions in every possible manner and taking charge of the returning and borrowing of […]
An insight into children experiences
Reading a story doesn’t mean just reading but also making children understand and explore their feelings and thoughts and when one gets a good response, one is sure that the children have understood the story and that feels really good!! This is a collection of the children’s responses from my sessions. I read the book […]
Stories that Challenge stereotypes
Every once in a while, you come across a story that is different. It makes you think and challenges your assumptions. One such story is ‘Drum Dream Girl’. Written by Margarita Engle, its stunning illustrations by Rafael Lopez take you on a journey to Cuba. Cuba; where there is music in everyone’s life, where only […]
Book Selection – What it has taught me this term
Back story In the Libraries in School program at the end of every term we bring the book boxes back to the library, where each box gets checked for damage, mending and covering. Also this is the time for the books to be rested before they are either put back on the shelf or taken […]
Series of Fortunate Events
2018 for Bookworm has been a year of many, many events. Some of which we engineer in our manic lets-make-a-difference kind of way and others have happened to us. In a conversation on our meeting-rug, there was a cloud of despondency around us. We had just experienced serious illness in one of our most loved […]
Project Nhoi: Mapping the Mandovi through paintings, voices of rural Goa
Bookshelf Travels
For the next issue of Torchlight, go look at your bookshelves and find the story of that book you borrowed but never returned… Send us your entry. And please share this widely, thank you.
Children’s Day at our Community Library
On 14th November, we celebrated Children’s day with the children from Bethesda Life Center by doing what they love doing the best- a Drama. The story chosen for the session was The Great Goat Chase by Tony Bonning, a story filled with histrionics and great pictures to support them. We started the session by singing […]