A delightful book for Christmas

This term I planned a unit on books about people who created different things. I do not want to use the word inventor or scientist,...

A Book Review of Julia and the Shark a book that touches upon mental health, those experiencing it and those witnessing it.

These two words set the tone for my post today. Ever since the torrential downpour persisted yesterday morning here in Chennai, and with...

This post first appeared as a feature in the Nature Writing for Children Newsletter https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/articles-nwfc/his...

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...

Author: Payal Kapadia Publisher: Hachette India Book Review As I sit down to write this, I realise that I am at a loss for words. ...

Wednesday a ‘W’ word, seems the perfect day to share three books I’ve been poring over the last week.  All three centre around...

This banner features titles beginning with the coordinating alphabet from our collection in the library As a Library Educator, I am...

Talking about ‘freedom’ through a story of peanut butter may seem incredulous.  However, Matt Haig’s short story “The Invention of Peanut...

A review of a gem of a book. Read if you want to write, read if you are a teller of stories, read just because.

February 14th…Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers day!!! As I browsed my book shelf I found the perfect picture book…a love story that...

My pick to add to our library shelves for our 'thIS ABILITY' theme. Twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius, in particular she loves...

Every once in a while I come across a book that leaves me awestruck. Achingly beautiful, this is one such book that will stay with me a...

As I began reading Savie Karnel‘s The Nameless God, published by Red Panda, I was sucked into the book. Right from the names of the two...

During the first few months of the year, we planned to focus on books about characters with disabilities…seen and unseen, with a focus on...

We’ve been working our way through the three Jarul Book Awards books and MY GRANDMOTHER CAN’T COOK by Indu Balachandran, illustrated by...

I’ve just put my bookmark away and shut Uncontrollable by Varsha Seshan, a middle grade fantasy fiction book in verse and I must say that...

"The face that launched a 1000 ships" is metaphoric enough to get my 6th and 7th graders all excited as we go across the stories from the...

For the last library period of term, I was looking for a story that was fun, that would take the children on a flight of imagination and...