Week 3 of the Art Theme that I've been doing with my elementary students this term. Last week my younger elementary students were...

Every term I like to plan around a theme...the idea usually pops up a few months earlier, often inspired by new books added to my...

"Writing to someone, taking the time to craft each letter, to buy a stamp, to select an envelope, to travel to the post office—none of...

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

9 July, 2019 Years ago, on one of my trips to Calcutta, a Bhutanese friend took me to a street not very far from my hotel. On this...

(This post was first published on The Bookwallis Facebook page.) Isn't it just? It is so essential to our lives, yet many of us do not...

(I wrote this article in October 2020 on The Bookwallis Facebook page as part of a series...Voicing the Silent(ces) in Children's...

Give me a book about stories and I’m happy. Give me a book about stories and family connections...and I’m thrilled! Give me a book about...

Every once in a while I come across a book that seems so sublime, that I wonder if it was written just for me. I don’t like pegging an...

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....

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...

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...