Maybe it’s because I have grown children, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up celebrating Christmas, but for some reason I cringe every...

During the Great Depression, to help aid and educate the people affected in eastern Kentucky, one of the parts of Appalachia which was...

There are times as an educator, when the children’s comments can make it painfully clear that you have not thought out or planned the...

Week 3 of Term 2 and we continue with the Art Theme in the library, exploring Indian art and artists through books. It hasn't been easy....

The new term started at the end of September and I knew exactly what I was going to be doing. Last term's theme on Art and Artists had...

Joe was engrossed in playing pirates at the park. There were sharks and crocodiles he had to deal with, who were no match for a...

(Sharing a post which first featured on the Sustainability Next blog on September 27, 2021) Ophidiophobia or fear of snakes, is one of...

It was the last week of the first term and I had wound up the first part of our art theme. Plans for the next term are underway, books...

15September, 2019 Did you know that today, September 15th, is International Dot Day? All over the world, educators are sharing the book...

Art Theme Week 10 We have just one more week of school before we break for holidays. With Pratham’s One Day, one story, scheduled for the...

This was going to be a special read-aloud for me. It was the first time that I was sharing one of my favourite children’s book authors...

Art Theme Week 9 Just like most of us, artist Paul Cezanne probably craved encouragement when he tried in vain, to train his pet parrot...

A version of this article appeared in the Hindu on July 30, 2021... https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-collection-of-books-to-teach-childre...

Art Theme Week 8 Last week the children had the following items ready for our library session, a request which had all the children very...

Many requests for ‘Starry Night’ moved one artist up the list of books chalked out for our art theme. A few seemed familiar with the...

From amongst the books I’ve chosen to share with the children for the Art Theme that we are doing this term, this one is probably my...

If you’ve been following me for a while, you will be familiar with my affinity for sing-a-long books and so I absolutely could not resist...

"Perhaps she'll die!!!....Ha! Ha! Ha!!!" Rather inappropriate chant to hear in todays's politically correct world, right? I'm sure this...

"Sometimes he showed his pictures to his friends. 'What is it?' one of them would ask. 'It's the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck,"...

My first glance through ‘Nani’s walk to the park’, written and illustrated by Deepa Balsavar, I thought, ‘hmmm sweet book, nice for...