The Curious High Heel Walk
Date: Sunday 14th February 2016Venue: Miramar (near Indoor Stadium and Fab India)Time: Assemble at 8am Race starts at 8.30amBookworm Jumble Sale at 9amDistance: 2×100 meters relay (100m each)
Bookworm At Science Film Festival Of India
Written by Leeja Naturally I was nervous but excited as well. My first serious assignment after joining BW just a few days ago. First ever Science Film Festival of India is coming to Goa and BW is invited to put up a stall at the Festival site. Our Ma’am Mrs Sujata Noronha was so […]
John Patrick Norman McHennessy, the boy who was always late.
Written by Deepali Looking at the title, one may wonder what all the initials stand for…..it stands for a very unusual book called John Patrick Norman McHennessy, the boy who was always late . It is the story of John Patrick Norman, who faces extraordinary events on the way to school which make him late […]
Iqbal
Written by Deepali I had the opportunity to read a story called Iqbal – A brave boy from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter and I was touched by the little boy who had no regular life as a toddler as he was sold into bonded labor by his parents for a mere Rs. 600. I was […]
The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Awards 2016 announced
Photo: R. Ragu “We can actually reject books at the library now {her organisation, Bookworm, works with children and communities through a library programme}; that alone shows we have come a long way from a time when we were glad for any book that came our way,” said Sujata. More press about the awards are […]
In My Pocket
Written by Flavia One of the newest schools under the LiS umbrella, Mae-de-Deus High School, Corjuem, Aldona, Goa, has not seen much of Bookworm’s magic. Sessions at this school are conducted on the same day as another LiS school at Margao, which means only the closest few (geographically), conduct sessions here. For the session on […]
International Network of Emerging Library Innovators
Bookworm is honoured to have Niju Mohan selected for International Network of Emerging Library Innovators along with others for a fellowship program. The International Network of Emerging Library Innovators (INELI) is the global library leadership capacity building programme supported by the Global Libraries Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Photo courtesy: mssrf.org
My Experience at Bookworm
Written by Zarine I sat looking at the little kids trotting around the library during their preschool morning. I went to the kitchen to drink a glass of water, but when I returned there were three boys of around ten along with them. They certainly were not Pre School Morning kids, they appeared to belong […]
Ferdinand: The Heart Melting Story!
Written by Melcom This is the most outstanding book I have ever read to myself and to a class room. I am saying this because this book have really been loved and appreciated by the children in the school (Libraries in Schools program) LiS and MOP (Mobile Outreach Program). This book requires no translation and […]
Bookworms full circle
It is rather atypical to have full circle moments and yet, for those of us who choose to work with children and books this is the order of the day ! At the end of this past year I had 2 very special such moments. Advay Burte all of 11 years was a Bookworm member […]