A Summer Guided Reading Program
“One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief Toward the end of April, with all our minds geared toward the first contact of the LEC course, the 2nd wave descended and we retreated again from contact. In the week that followed, we re-immersed into the […]
A Journey to Continents
Bookworm, being a library focused organisation, has always shared books and stories with children. However, the second wave of the pandemic, once again locked us within the walls of our homes and screens. It restricted physical movement, but gave wings to fly to different continents through stories. During the summer break, we planned to travel […]
Being Flexible as Library Educators
All around us, we are hearing of practitioners seeking ideas for a rapid transfer to online modes. We sense that the library and practices with children, like other educational institutions with the same age group, feel that they have to rapidly transition to online and digital formats, adopting remote modes of teaching and learning since […]
Anarko Ke Aath Din-A Book Review
Anarko ke Aath Din is a fictional story written by Satyu, illustrated by Chanchal and published by Rajkamal Prakashan Private Limited, New Delhi. Anarko, the main character is around 9-10 years old and lives with her parents. They have certain expectations of her in terms of what she should and should not do, which she […]
Mosaic of Hope
Almost twelve years ago when we began to reach out to communities on the margins, our intention was simply about scaffolding. Children on the margins of social, economic, health, literacy, identity, language, caste, ethnicity , development and perhaps more indicators are compromised for fuller life experiences. We imagined some story joy, some book joy will […]
Puu – A Critical Book Review
Written by the Bookworm Team Title: Puu Author: CG Salamandar Illustrator: Samidha Gunjal Publisher: Scholastic The book narrates the story of a girl, who is part of a community of manual scavengers, and her experience and interaction with the other children in the school she attends. Through a heroic act of rescuing a puppy […]
Careers Opening – Associate Graphic Designer
An assistant graphic designer who can apply their creativity and design principles to the library vision in visual communication about our library programs. Interested candidates may please send a portfolio of work to careers@bookwormgoa.in Skills: Photo editing Composition Software & tools: Adobe creative suite – Photoshop, Indesign, and preferably Illustrator Canva MS Word & Powerpoint; Google Docs & […]
Reading Portal
Library spaces , including children’s corners in libraries inherited a desirable atmosphere of silence from time past. This imagination stemmed from a theory around learning that believed that mental attention was only possible when all external sounds ceased as distractors. It was also reinforced by the scholarly atmosphere that academic libraries generated when an aura […]
THE CHILDREN. THE LIBRARY
The generator would come on and drown out any conversation that was going on. Yuvraj noticed me grimace and began to countdown and lo and behold when he got to 8, the generator stopped. I looked at him and indicated he had magic. Every time during this library session which is a part of the […]
Alban Couto Community Library children come visiting
In every room at the library , the air was ruffled – there were children and they had come back ! Six readers from our Alban Couto Community Library ( ACCL) with Wendy our own library educator, and parent Akshi came to Bookworm library. It was a joy to have children as young as three […]