A Bookworm spots The Bookworm

“A Bookworm” spots “The Bookworm” – A Book Review  At Random

The Bookworm / Lavanya R N and Shilo Shiv Suleman.-Chennai : Karaditales, 2010, pp33.  Rs 199.00

I have the habit of browsing through the books, be it in my house or  or a library or a bookfair.  Today I was doing the same in my school book fair.  At times when you don’t expect any thing great to happen and keep going, you get when you have been longing for, for days and years.  It was in one of these moments that this bookworm spots a book , “The Bookworm” authored by Lavanya N R and illustrated by Shilo Shiv Suleman.  A huge crowd around, I got to a corner and stared reading the book.  How can a bookworm miss to read a book titled The Bookworm?

It took about 20 minutes to read, stoped a few moments to check the meanings of words like, bully, streak, tyke, huddle, puddle, splatter, snigger, and perk. It could be an easy read for a kid and an English Teacher and not for me any way. To me it is a marvellous book talking about books, library, reading and bullying, ending with a fantastic positive note . I congratulate both Lavanya (text) and Shilo for creating such a master piece for kids and of course all bookworms like me. And by the way I am a school librarian as you know.

The text contains the words and phrases kids love.  Illustrations are lovely and realistic and take children to their dream world. Kids I am sure would end up learning positive vibes about reading, books and Libraries. I wish every school librarian reads this book and uses the same for their storytelling sessions. I remember to have read few karaditales in kannada long back. Reading this title seems to have refreshed my old memories as a child. Thank you authors, thank you Karadi (Vishwanath and Shobha). Best Wishes.

Rajashekhar S Devarai

Chief Librarian, Shishuvan English Medium School, Mumbai

23rd Oct 2018

References AND links

(1)  http://www.publishingnext.in/shobha-viswanath/

(2)  https://www.karaditales.com/about-us/

(3)  https://www.karaditales.com/catalogue/picture-books/the-bookworm-2/

                                                                        

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