“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” - Laurie Halse Anderson, Author This week is Banned Book Week, a week...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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