A few months ago, I had the opportunity to work with a group of middle graders on a cross-border literary exchange. One of the books we...

Can you imagine your worst day ever?  Now multiply it by 10.  Would you believe me if I told you that it would still not match up to...

A delightful book for Christmas

A Book Review of Julia and the Shark a book that touches upon mental health, those experiencing it and those witnessing it.

A huge truck pulled up on the street where my parents live, right at the gate in near which they sat shooting the breeze. A friend who...

Author: Payal Kapadia Publisher: Hachette India Book Review As I sit down to write this, I realise that I am at a loss for words. ...

Talking about ‘freedom’ through a story of peanut butter may seem incredulous.  However, Matt Haig’s short story “The Invention of Peanut...

A must read young adult book that seamlessly weaves political, religious and social commentary with love stories and a wee little murder!

My pick to add to our library shelves for our 'thIS ABILITY' theme. Twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius, in particular she loves...

Every once in a while I come across a book that leaves me awestruck. Achingly beautiful, this is one such book that will stay with me a...

As I began reading Savie Karnel‘s The Nameless God, published by Red Panda, I was sucked into the book. Right from the names of the two...

During the first few months of the year, we planned to focus on books about characters with disabilities…seen and unseen, with a focus on...

"The face that launched a 1000 ships" is metaphoric enough to get my 6th and 7th graders all excited as we go across the stories from the...

The news of the horrors going on in Gaza at the moment had got me down. In the library I noticed that children were all picking up...

Almost a year ago, my ‘BFF’, also a Jo-Ann….with no ‘e’ at the end, a ‘Child Life Specialist’ in the US, sent me this book...

This post was first shared on The Bookwallis Facebook page. FOOD features EVERYWHERE. Food is ubiquitous. From growing it, to harvesting...

"But those who want to talk and tell, And those who will not listeners be, Will never hear a syllable From the lips of any tree.”...

(A version of this post was first published on the Sustainability Next blog.) What do you notice when you go to the seashore? If you are...

Today, 18 April, 2023 is World Heritage Day, also known as the International Monuments and Sites Day. The day is all about creating...

Yesterday my Instagram feed was flooded with posts about the protests at Nochikuppam, Chennai. The artisanal fisherfolk have been...