Being Gandhi
Written by Paro Anand Pictures by Priya Kuriyan Published by Harper Collins Children’s Books Like Chandrasekar, the 13 year old protagonist in the story – many of us feel that we have notionally reduced the month of October to remembering Gandhi as an ideal or a symbol of ‘freedom’ through school program – projects – […]
NEW LIBRARY IN BORIM
Neil Gaiman writes, “libraries are about freedom, freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communications, about entertainment, about making safe spaces and about access to information. A library is a place of safety. A haven from the world, its a place with librarian in it” Truly, a library is a space which is created […]
Of colours and birds at MOP Chimbel
From the month of November 2019 there are two sessions at MOP Chimbel that stayed with me the most. These are a poetry session on ‘My Many Coloured Days’ by Dr. Seuss and another Read Aloud and bird watching activity based on the story of ‘Salim Mamoo and Me’ by Zai Whitaker, illustrated by Prabha […]
Going on an Adventure
Following the midterm exams and with holidays ongoing, we wanted to do something different at our community library site at BLC. Being a boy’s home, the children generally spend much of their time inside during the holidays and restlessness hovers around within the walls. We decided to do a session based on the story ‘Sam […]
Bringing Teachers into Library Practice
At Bookworm, our approach has been to work with children. This was not a strategic decision, but an organic one. It emerged from the simple truth, that children are open, receptive, warm, welcoming and critical, story worlds make immediate sense, they don’t need to be ‘taught’. Ursula LeGuin writes, “ Children have a seemingly innate […]
We are hiring a Project Coordinator for Libraries in School Program
We are hiring a Project Coordinator for Libraries in School Program which works with large classrooms to initiate a love for reading and learning through books. Get in touch with us at careers@bookwormgoa.in
New Book Happiness
Bookworm’s mission is to spread the love for reading to every child and one way we do this in the Libraries in School Program is by introducing children to our collection of books. Children are exposed to different kinds of books such as picture books, board books as well as types of books like fiction, […]
Taking story time from the classroom to the courtyard
With the heavy rains gone after the Diwali holidays, we conducted the library sessions at Govt. Primary School, Merces (Std. 1-4) in the courtyard. The fresh air in the school compound, with coconut trees swaying in the breeze, has added magic to our library sessions. The first time the children sat with us outside, I […]
Reading Lila’s Loose Tooth
It sat there upon the New Arrivals shelf in the library, not quite fitting between different sized books, slightly askew in its place and almost nudging itself to me. Lila’s Loose Tooth it read , by Mamata Nainy and Habib Ali. All new ! I was on the calendar to facilitate story time for our […]
A Journey to Remember
Written by Nayan Mehrotra, LEC 2019 The journey of experiencing the library educators course was enriching and exciting on many levels. Before doing the course, I had a small open library which I was running out of my passion for library work. I did not know much of the practices and approaches which I got […]