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Books take you places! The Most Magnificent Mosque, Cordoba

On a rare visit to the Anna Centenary Library, a public library in Chennai, I was surprised by the collection in the children’s section,...

Art IS Everywhere

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...

Highlighting the Environment through Displays, Books and Stories

10 October, 2019 Harnessing, current events this term we are focusing on protecting our world, by highlighting books about conservation,...

When a library read-aloud session inspires creative expression...Spellbound by Nalini Sorensen

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...

Oh, for the love of Picture Books with infinite possibilities!!

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...

Encouraging browsing with Book Spine Poetry.

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...

The Unboy Boy...examining gender roles through a picture book.

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

MAY BOOKS INSPIRE YOU DEAR CHILDREN

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...

Magnificent Persistence

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...

Eliciting some library love with display boards.

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

When Hardwork and Dedication prove their might.

9 November, 2019 So what can I say about this evening? It all started in the first week of September, when author Aparna Jain, who...