Questions and Answers
So, Bookworm continues to reside in popular memory as a children’s library. A hole – in – the – wall that has some books for lending. No questions asked here. As awareness increases and one begins to understand the scale of our outreach work and the number of children who get a systematic, creative library […]
Partnering with Amazon’s Gift a Smile program
We are proud to be partnering with Amazon India in their Gift a Smile program. Bookworm’s wishlist is available here. Please donate generously
Non Fiction books
As part of our Libraries in School Program (LiS), it has been our endeavor to develop a love for books and reading in children. This also means exposing them to various types of books in various ways. This year, as part of our LiS syllabus, we had decided that we would add a new unit […]
Bookworm Events Calendar – October 2017
A Non Reader Amongst Readers – HELP !
Before joining Bookworm, I always thought that food, clothing and shelter are the basic needs of people. But I realise I was quite wrong. Before my time here, I have been in the company of people who spoke about T.V and its contents, Face Book and the posts on FB and all sorts of entertainment […]
Call for Contributions to Torchlight Issue 4, January 2018: The Digital Age and Libraries
Technology is everywhere. Inventions that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago are essential components of everyday life now. Libraries and readers too have been swept up in its all-encompassing embrace; Kindle screens wink at us from bedside tables, archives become digitally available, and writers tweet out stories in real time to a […]
Watching a Community Library Begin
It is Sunday morning. We have rain in short bursts that render the green and the red sharper to the eye. I walk through a narrow lane, escaping a large buffalo ( if the buffalo would write, he might say the same thing!) and approach a plastic covered verandah. A low hum of voices […]
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 […]
September 2017 Events Calendar
Aldona has a BookStop!
It all started last year (late 2016) when Sujata asked me to find out how much it would cost to make a small shelf for books, which could be placed or hung in a noticeable, accessible spot. The shelf would have a metal frame and a couple of wooden shelves with some material to cover […]