Vee loved Garlic and talking about food and intolerances
August, 2019 Over the years of storytelling and reading-aloud, there is always this one thing that I notice have children crinkling up...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
The Great Kapok Tree...a classic.
28 July, 2019 When I first planned to post a review of The Great Kapok Tree’ by Lynne Cherry, I didn’t know that it was World Nature...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20214 min read
The Star Outside My Window
“I've always wanted to be a Star Hunter. But I don't want to be the kind that looks for old stars that have already been burning for...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
MERCEDES AND THE CHOCOLATE PILOT
AUTHOR: Margot Theis Raven ILLUSTRATOR: Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen Was I glad to be hiding behind the ‘share screen’ option during my...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20215 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Why I call myself a Story Educator.
The joy of spring cleaning. ....notes from the first storytelling workshop I attended. 24 August, 2002 with the most wonderful...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Sometimes a book needs children to work its magic...Ravi's Roar.
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
A Journey into our imagination with Morris Lessmore
September 2020 The last online library sessions of the term this week, and I wanted to leave my students thinking about books, reading...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20214 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
FAUJA SINGH KEEPS GOING - THE TRUE STORY OF THE OLDEST PERSON TO EVER RUN A MARATHON
Author Simran Jeet Singh Illustrated by Baljinder Kaur. While Fauja Singh was born determined, he was also born with legs that wouldn’t...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Story Fun
25th March 2021 My students thoroughly enjoy participatory activities in the school library. With online fatigue rather strong, the fun...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20211 min read
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Once upon a time with a girl named Coyote Sunrise
So, I was ‘chopping onions’….chopping onions, I tell you!! The last few pages were blurry. I had to stop, go wash my face and come back...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20212 min read
Jewels under the saddle...a story.
As an old Irish saying goes.... "Three apples fell from the tree. One for he who tells the story, one for he who reads/listens to the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 6, 20217 min read
Do we need Children's Books on Domestic Violence?
This article first appeared on The Bookwallis, a Facebook page I write on with 2 other educators, we covered themes by 'Voicing the...
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JoAnne Saldanha
May 23, 20212 min read
The Lion's Feast...a romp of a story, an absolute treat.
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...
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