Of Sarees, Montessori and the Tale of Two Cities.
There are not many people who will have me want to get into a saree. Don’t get me wrong, I love sarees. I love seeing the elegant...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Sep 242 min read
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
Jan 303 min read
The Preamble to the Constitution in the Library
My work requires me to often travel and interact with children, teachers and parents. I often see schools and school libraries tick all...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Oct 1, 20232 min read
Of Travel and Library of Celsus...Ephesus
When we began planning a trip to Turkey, little did I realise just how often I would find connections to my interests and more so to my...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 23, 20237 min read
Camino Santiago...till we meet again.
This is part of a series of posts written on our Camino journey. Post 7 Read the previous post here Written by my sister Mary-Lou...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 21, 20233 min read
The People Make the Journey on the Camino Santiago
Read the previous post here. It is good to have an end to journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ernest Hemingway...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 14, 20232 min read
The Camino Santiago...Hold That Judgement.
This is a series of posts that I had written originally on Facebook on 11/5/2019 Camino Santiago post 4 Read post 3 here. People walk the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 13, 20233 min read
Finding our way on the Camino Santiago
Written originally as a Facebook Post on 2/5/2019 Camino Santiago post 3 Read post 2 here So, yesterday was an easy day, as was today. We...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 5, 20236 min read
Camino Santiago, 2019...The Beginning
In April 2019, my sister Mary-Lou and I, undertook a pilgrimage called the Camino Santiago to Compostela Del Santiago in Galicia, Spain....
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JoAnne Saldanha
Apr 23, 20232 min read
Books and Love...Sant Jordi and World Book Day
In 2019, I was leaving Barcelona for Cordoba, when I heard about the most wonderful tradition that was to take place the next day, April...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Apr 9, 20232 min read
Easter Nostalgia
I love the traditions attached to festivals because they offer opportunities to share stories. . The stories in some homes may be...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Apr 6, 20232 min read
Serendipitous finds While Weeding our Collection.
One of the most painful jobs for me as a Library Educator, always proves to be one of the most joyful. The job? Weeding. No, we don’t...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Mar 31, 20233 min read
My Name is Gulab...reading about Social Justice issues through Picture Books
Books about social justice issues open up the world beyond their immediate circle of family and friends, giving children the opportunity...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Mar 6, 20233 min read
On Reading a Book Series...
The image above shows a poster that we have in the library to draw children’s attention to some of the book series we have on our...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Feb 19, 20232 min read
Library Love during Valentine's Week
With commercial Valentine’s day messages bombarding us all across different media, it is only natural for the children to want to...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Of Hidden Gems in Indian Kid Lit and one in particular.
As a Library Educator, I often feel that I need to play the role of Cupid…Eros, if Greek mythology is more your thing. I need to get...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jan 4, 20232 min read
New Year Reflections of an Educator
I ended a busy, productive year and began the new one in a reflective mood, thinking about something that has been playing on my mind for...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Dec 20, 20224 min read
Green LitFest...a fun and thought provoking Green Day out.
The buzz around the Indian’s only Green LitFest started when I was invited to be a jury advisor in the children’s literature category. I...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Dec 5, 20222 min read
On Spreading Story Magic and Book Joy
Recently someone who knows me quite well, was surprised when I mentioned about my workshops, outside of the schools I work with on a...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Nov 7, 20222 min read
Nurturing Writers in the Library
When I shared author Jerry Pinto’s reel on Instagram yesterday, I remembered that I had brought home a new ‘book’ from school, one that I...
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