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,...

"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...

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...

(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...

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

Yesterday, during an Insta Live session with Redwood Montessori School, I was asked about books dealing with death. I first wrote a post...

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...

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

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

Ammi weaves the most beautiful sarees in the world, Abba is a pro at dyeing the threads and the children help out where ever they can....

March 8, 2020 I glanced through my small collection of books at home, I saw some marvellous women hiding between their covers. Some you...

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...

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

I love how food brings people together, often accompanied by laughter, stories, love, friendship, camaraderie and sharing. I love when ...

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

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...

“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...

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...