Thukpa for all
9 July, 2019 Years ago, on one of my trips to Calcutta, a Bhutanese friend took me to a street not very far from my hotel. On this...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 21, 20215 min read
Music is all around us
(This post was first published on The Bookwallis Facebook page.) Isn't it just? It is so essential to our lives, yet many of us do not...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 18, 20218 min read
Books about Refugees and why our Children need to read them.
(I wrote this article in October 2020 on The Bookwallis Facebook page as part of a series...Voicing the Silent(ces) in Children's...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 17, 20213 min read
A Cup of Noon Chai and a Library of Stories.
Give me a book about stories and I’m happy. Give me a book about stories and family connections...and I’m thrilled! Give me a book about...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 14, 20212 min read
Daisy Dolls
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 13, 20218 min read
Picture Books...a Conduit to Conversations about Death, Loss and Grief.
Yesterday, during an Insta Live session with Redwood Montessori School, I was asked about books dealing with death. I first wrote a post...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 11, 20215 min read
The Lorax and the Patas Monkey
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 11, 20213 min read
The Boy at the Back of the Class
November 3, 2019 The empty chair at the back of the class has been there for a while. But then one day, three weeks into school there is...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 11, 20213 min read
The Book of Hopes
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...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 11, 20212 min read
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."- Clementine Paddleford. I came across this wonderful poem by poet and...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 10, 20213 min read
Because of Mr. Terupt
All of us had that one teacher in school who we remember and hold close. They are often the teachers who taught us as much, if not more...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 10, 20212 min read
A House. A Home. Two spectacular books that make you reflect on the meanings of those words.
It was peeping out at me at my neighbourhood book store…the kind of store that stocks, bestsellers, ‘olympiad’ books, ‘workbooks’, hair...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 10, 20213 min read
'The Village with a Long Name' stretches our imaginations.
While the curly whirly script on the sign boards belie the fact that this book may be set in a village in South India, I felt villages...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 10, 20212 min read
A Tribute to the Women on My Bookshelf.
March 8, 2020 I glanced through my small collection of books at home, I saw some marvellous women hiding between their covers. Some you...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 10, 20212 min read
Stories from Orissa and the connections my students made.
While I’ve been posting about all kinds of books, our Indian Folk Tale theme has been continuing at the school library. Last week we were...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Sometimes misfortune can indeed be a blessing.
August, 2020 Sion, an excellent and well-respected fortune-teller, lives in a kingdom just along the Great Wall of China. Everyone went...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20212 min read
A Book filled with Sharing and Gratitude
I love how food brings people together, often accompanied by laughter, stories, love, friendship, camaraderie and sharing. I love when ...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20213 min read
The Grand Chapati Contest
Written by: Asha Nehemiah Illustrated by:Chetan Sharma Published by : Duckbill/Penguinsters So let me say right off the bat, that there...
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JoAnne Saldanha
Jun 8, 20213 min read
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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