August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...

Written by: Asha Nehemiah Illustrated by:Chetan Sharma Published by : Duckbill/Penguinsters So let me say right off the bat, that there...

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...

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...

September 2020 The last online library sessions of the term this week, and I wanted to leave my students thinking about books, reading...

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...

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

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...

February, 2018 If an illustrator signs a copy of his book for my students at school, a bias is warranted isn't it? So at the outset, let...