There is so much that I want to say about this book, that I do not know where to begin. How does one take the black colour of grief, mix...

There was a wonderful buzz around the library this past week. We had read the 3 books shortlisted for the Jarul Book awards over the...

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...

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...

"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,"...

Taking on from our first book, ISH by Peter H. Reynolds which I chose to help my students see that art comes from what we...

Be You by Peter H Reynolds came highly recommended by someone whose choices I value. So without much hesitation, I ordered it...after all...

Ammi weaves the most beautiful sarees in the world, Abba is a pro at dyeing the threads and the children help out where ever they can....

While the curly whirly script on the sign boards belie the fact that this book may be set in a village in South India, I felt villages...

August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...

Written by: Asha Nehemiah Illustrated by:Chetan Sharma Published by : Duckbill/Penguinsters So let me say right off the bat, that there...

I started my class by reading the first chapter of a book. I didn’t tell my students the title or the author. I just read aloud the...

Don't you just love when the same book lends itself so beautifully to different age groups? I never marvel at the magic spun in the pages...

I have a self imposed rule of only reading aloud books or orally narrating stories that I connect with. Yet every once in a while, I come...

September 2020 The last online library sessions of the term this week, and I wanted to leave my students thinking about books, reading...

One of the big complaints in the school library is ‘We don’t have any books to read!’ Yet, I look at the shelves and see them groaning...

Gagan is a happy, gentle little boy who loves observing ants, colouring, collecting stamps and other comparably gentle pursuits, with his...

October, 2020 This term I planned a unit on books about people who created different things. I do not want to use the word inventor or...

February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...