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Pairing and Comparing Wedding Baraat Picture Books
Tuesday’s are ‘twosday’s’ on my Instagram account @mythaunty , when I share a pair of books. When we received the PHL Book Box, from...
JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 21, 20232 min read
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Tales of Bon Bibi from the Sunderbans
Ever since the start of this year, I’ve been drawn to books written in verse. I have been reading aloud and working on understanding...
JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 7, 20232 min read
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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,...
JoAnne Saldanha
Apr 3, 20222 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 6, 20213 min read
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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,...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20215 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20214 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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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...
JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20213 min read
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