The Rain
In our work, we constantly try to brainstorm and develop various activities for children. We hope that this will encourage children to pick a book to read with interest, challenge their abilities and help build their imagination. What better way to capture one’s feelings and emotions in this monsoon than with a Rain Display to […]
Ganesha at the Preschool Morning
Its festival time and Ganesh Chaturthi is just a few days away. Since the library would be closed on Saturday, the 26th on account of this, I decided to read a Ganesha story for my preschoolers this Saturday.. I picked up “Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth” by Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes. This is a modern and […]
Collaborating in classrooms
Working in collaboration on one project teaches us team work and gives us the satisfaction that we have made a contribution to it. In schools, the children contribute their own little work of art as an extension activity to the Read Aloud Stories we do. This is our collaborative activity. At the end of the […]
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 […]
The Bookworm Play
A short play, intended to give an insight into the various programmes at Bookworm, was held on 11th July for participants of the Library Educator’s Course. The play was scripted and directed entirely by Stephie Madurai, a young bookworm colleague who has a deep connection with theatre as an art form. During a meeting, when […]
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 […]
Bookworm Events Calendar– July 2017
Call for Contributions to Torchlight Issue 3, September 2017: Children and Libraries
Books are a way of opening the world up for children. As they grow, books allow children to find resonance of their own experiences as well as discover new ones. If readers are a community, then a library is their home, the physical space they can inhabit. For children, the library can be a way […]