Nayana Pai on Contact 1 of LEC English 2018
I experienced the ‘joy in reading out books’ first hand when I read them to my son in his early years. The curiosity that he displayed by seeing the pictures closely and posing questions as I read the text and turned the pages, made me realise what a special magic a picture book has, to […]
Poetry Summer School
As I drive towards Bookworm this season beginning with the yellow blossoms in my car park to the ones along the Goa University road to the almost perennial Laburnum at the Taleigao park, I am reminded that summer is upon us and that I must help the team at Bookworm blooming. My summer school is […]
HOMES
When the school year ends, one imagines hours of reading time. Exploring books and indulging in relaxed reading. Not so at Bookworm. We were rounded up and assigned library reading tasks. To soften the task it was called a Drop Everything and Read in the Library. My task, was to help a fictitious child from […]
Finding THE book
I was given a task, to find three versions of the same story and share which one I liked the best. It was not an easy task but I said I would try. I first understood the meaning of the word ‘versions’. I thought of a story I knew from my school days – The […]
Recruitment Ad: Junior Accountant
Bookworm’s vision is “To inspire and develop a love for reading as a way of life, nurturing humane engagement in every girl and boy.” We have a library and office in Taleigao out of which several programmes are run. These include: the library itself, Libraries in School Programme (LiS), Mobile Outreach Programme (MOP), Library Educators’ […]
Gift a Smile
As a Library and a resource centre, the books that we wish to acquire are never ending, ever changing, and ALWAYS on our list of ‘resources we need’. Regardless of space, capacity or limits, a Library should be all encompassing, evolving and democratic in what it represents and as a Library is represented by it’s […]
My first day at MOP
Written by Reis Estrocio When I first arrived at Bookworm, it was quite different from any other organisation. My team members Kabita and Stephie were busy planning for the session. I was anxious, thinking how will I need to perform. Will the children listen to me? What if I cannot meet the team’s objectives and so on. […]
Trees and Books
Being new to the Peter Bhatt site, planning for the session held a two-fold challenge. Retain the existing girl’s interests, as well as try to draw in the boys, who prefer to play outdoor games. The previous session offered a clue to which type of book could be appropriate. The children were distracted (in a […]
Torchlight Issue 5: Dedication Ad
For our next edition of Torchlight (Theme: Bookish Love), we are doing a story on the best dedications people have received in books given to them by friends/colleagues/loved ones. Maybe you had been looking for that book for the longest time and a bestie found it for you? Maybe you were adrift and the book […]
Torchlight Issue 5: Bookmark Ad
For lovers of books, almost everything can turn into a bookmark. For our upcoming issue of Torchlight, we’d like to feature some usual, unusual, funny, creative, ‘anything can be a bookmark’ bookmarks that you use in between those fascinating pages. SO DEAR READERS, PLEASE SHARE WITH US A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKMARK at torchlight@bookwormgoa.in […]