World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday in February, every year. It is a day that draws attention to the importance of...

The reason I picked this book for the school library, is because of a former student who plays in the Tamil Nadu, U21 woman’s cricket...

As we approach the end of the year, I cannot help but reflect on the year that has been. It’s been a year of ups and downs, much like the...

There was a wonderful buzz around the library this past week. We had read the 3 books shortlisted for the Jarul Book awards over the...

Maybe it’s because I have grown children, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up celebrating Christmas, but for some reason I cringe every...

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...

"Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau...

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...

If you’ve been following me for a while, you will be familiar with my affinity for sing-a-long books and so I absolutely could not resist...

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...

Sometimes one comes across books that are celebrations of individuality...and just sometimes they burst with love and acceptance. I found...

(I wrote this article in October 2020 on The Bookwallis Facebook page as part of a series...Voicing the Silent(ces) in Children's...

Every once in a while I come across a book that seems so sublime, that I wonder if it was written just for me. I don’t like pegging an...

30 September, 2019 Last week, I was invited to give a talk about Dr. Seuss, and as I researched about his sources of inspiration, his...

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

29 January, 2020 This term its all about Indian stories...especially our folktales. . During our library sessions we talked about how...

29 September, 2020 As I sat down to prepare for the new term, which started this week, I looked back with pride, amazement and smug...

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."- Clementine Paddleford. I came across this wonderful poem by poet and...

It was peeping out at me at my neighbourhood book store…the kind of store that stocks, bestsellers, ‘olympiad’ books, ‘workbooks’, hair...