Is it the Same for You?
“The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed mine.” Is it the Same for You? Is written by Neha Singh and illustrated by Priya Sebastian. The story centers around the life of a girl and the challenges that she goes through in […]
Bookworm’s list of books on Inclusion
SL. NO TITLE AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR 1 Zoom Robert Munsch Michael Martchenko 2 Ty’s One Man band Mildred Pitt Walter Margot Tomes 3 Thukpa for All Praba Ram & Sheela Preuitt Shilpa Ranade 4 King for a Day Rukhsana Khan Christiane Kromer 5 Dream Writer Sandhya Rao Tanvi Bhat 6 Ten Shefalee Jain 7 I Didn’t […]
Mobile Outreach Program Hiring
Program Resource Person We anticipate a team player who is committed to Bookworm’s vision and value framework. We are keen to see the following qualities and abilities in a program team member. Commitment to working with diverse children Energetic and ready to work long hours Ability to think critically and ideate Ability to make decisions […]
From Blended to Virtual, holding onto LECness
Written by Megha Dharnidharka, LEC 2017 My journey with LEC began in 2017 as a participant of the very first batch of LEC English. I couldn’t have imagined the profoundness of the experience and the manner in which it would transform my life. From the very first moment, I was struck by the welcoming and […]
From Theory to Praxis – Library Educators Course 2020
Written by Nivedita V. Bedadur, LEC 2020 I was waiting to sign up for LEC, Bookworm, Goa for almost more than a decade. I had heard about it when a Hindi version opened up. I remember friends telling me about it. I remember me wanting to be there because in my imagination it was all […]
The Library – Just Downstairs …
By the Library Team Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. I’m not at the bottom, I’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always Stop. (From Halfway Down by A.A Milne) In a recent long drawn activity on […]
The Magic Weavers of Bookworm
Written by Prerna Agarwal, LEC 2020 ‘Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life’s greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.’ This quote by Taylor Caldwell overlooked my senior school corridor and always made me wonder, ‘How can that be?’ For my […]
Library Educators Unite Online
Written by Dwithiya Raghavan, LEC 2020 How do you move a course that has so far run in the wonderous haven for readers that is the Bookworm library in Goa into tiny Zoom windows without losing its soul? Ask the Bookworm team and they will tell you how! Thanks to the pandemic, they were pushed […]
Six Book Relay Teams – One Book
A key element of library work is that of interaction. Texts are read, shared, discussed, dismissed, awaited as children in our pre COVID libraries gathered at regular intervals on our shared journey of becoming readers. This interruption in our social lives simply meant we had to think again. As is want to happen when intentions […]
Story Hour from Home
In a book titled Reader Come Home by neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf, we are cautioned to not expose children younger than five years to screens. The book is presented with thoughtfully documented science of the brain that shows us how our circuitry is changing with digital reading. Wolf advocates biliteracy, teaching young children “to read physical […]