History, Mystery, & Horned Glory...Rhinoceros in Indian Children's Books
This post first appeared as a feature in the Nature Writing for Children Newsletter https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/articles-nwfc/his...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 242 min
Talking about Manual Scavenging through a Picture Book
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 183 min
Woebegone's Warehouse of Words
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. ...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 42 min
'Wordy' reads...Books about Words
Wednesday a ‘W’ word, seems the perfect day to share three books I’ve been poring over the last week. All three centre around...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 13 min
An Exhibition of Bookish Art
This banner features titles beginning with the coordinating alphabet from our collection in the library As a Library Educator, I am...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Aug 222 min
Peanut Butter and Freedom!
Talking about ‘freedom’ through a story of peanut butter may seem incredulous. However, Matt Haig’s short story “The Invention of Peanut...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Aug 182 min
Singing for Mrs.Pettigrew - A Gem of a Read
A review of a gem of a book. Read if you want to write, read if you are a teller of stories, read just because.
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JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 142 min
Love in the Library
February 14th…Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers day!!! As I browsed my book shelf I found the perfect picture book…a love story that...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 123 min
Song for a Whale
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 12 min
A Time to Dance...Book Review
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jan 222 min
The Nameless God
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jan 224 min
OUR LIBRARY...thIS ABILITY
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Nov 18, 20232 min
My Grandmother Can't Cook...fun books and meaningful discussions
We’ve been working our way through the three Jarul Book Awards books and MY GRANDMOTHER CAN’T COOK by Indu Balachandran, illustrated by...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Nov 15, 20232 min
Uncontrollable...Fantasy Fiction in Verse
I’ve just put my bookmark away and shut Uncontrollable by Varsha Seshan, a middle grade fantasy fiction book in verse and I must say that...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Oct 29, 20232 min
my story,my voice - Sita and Helen
"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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Oct 16, 20232 min
The Paper Plane Flew
For the last library period of term, I was looking for a story that was fun, that would take the children on a flight of imagination and...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Aug 1, 20232 min
Oppenheimer and the Butter Battle Book
Tuesday's are 'twosdays' over on my @mythaunty Instagram account, when I share two books that I've shared for a particular reason. This...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 26, 20232 min
RED - A Crayon's Story
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20237 min
Think FOOD, think ACCEPTANCE and TOLERANCE...an exploration through Picture Books
This post was written for the Bookwallis Facebook page on 16 September, 2020 I’ve been a Story educator and Library educator for many...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 5, 20237 min
Picture Books that 'Stretch the Table'...Stories about Soups and Stews
When I think of FOOD, I think of ‘stretching the table’... always a place and a bowl for one more. When I think about stretching the...
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