It was peeping out at me at my neighbourhood book store…the kind of store that stocks, bestsellers, ‘olympiad’ books, ‘workbooks’, hair...

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...

I love how food brings people together, often accompanied by laughter, stories, love, friendship, camaraderie and sharing. I love when ...

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

August, 2019 Over the years of storytelling and reading-aloud, there is always this one thing that I notice have children crinkling up...

28 July, 2019 When I first planned to post a review of The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry, I didn’t know that it was World Nature...

“I've always wanted to be a Star Hunter. But I don't want to be the kind that looks for old stars that have already been burning for...

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...

AUTHOR: Margot Theis Raven ILLUSTRATOR: Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen Was I glad to be hiding behind the ‘share screen’ option during my...

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...

The joy of spring cleaning. ....notes from the first storytelling workshop I attended. 24 August, 2002 with the most wonderful...

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...

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

14 NOVEMBER, 2019 A wish for all the children in my life, this Children’s Day…may books inspire you: To care… To be brave… Enough… To...

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 2020 I was requested...rather firmly by my 'Phoenix’s', my oldest group at Redwood Montessori, to please plan a Valentine’s Day...

February 2020 It was all about love in the school library last year. Children shared some library love during the Valentine's week. Now...

As an old Irish saying goes.... "Three apples fell from the tree. One for he who tells the story, one for he who reads/listens to the...

This article first appeared on The Bookwallis, a Facebook page I write on with 2 other educators, we covered themes by 'Voicing the...