Celebrate books, music and a travelling bookshop’s fifth birthday with one of India’s best children’s choirs, The Harmony Chorus! Date: Saturday, 7 July 2018 Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm Venue: Hippocampus Children’s […]
NICE TO MEET YOU, NATASHA!
Want to help Razia Sultan find out who is sending her girly presents and challenging her right to rule over Delhi? Intrigued by how a vampire piggybacking on a king’s […]
THE PERKS OF PAATI-HOOD
Ah, what a delight it is when one’s little indulgences suddenly come to be regarded as basic necessities! Buying children’s books for my private enjoyment is a luxury I treat […]
“YE RE YE RE KOLABA…”
Childhood stories are amazing, especially when grandmothers narrate them. Let me take you back in time to my childhood, which means stepping into a rambling old house that belonged to […]
BIRTHDAY PARTY 1: GET ‘APPY WITH ARTHI!
Wheeee, we are three! No better way for a children’s bookshop to celebrate than by doing events right through the birthday month! We kick off the celebrations with the amazing […]
BOOKALORE @ RED BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
And we begin the New Year with a bang! Bookalore’s event this month (on 30 January) is at Redbridge International Academy and features Roopa Pai and Roopa Pai and Roopa […]
THE VIP WITH A ROSE
As the nation celebrates Children’s Day today, I remember a story of the VIP with a rose. Yes, a very special person in our hearts even today, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Five […]
MAHATMA ON MY MIND
This was Bookalore’s theme for the event at the Butterfly Talent Academy. The programme got off to a smooth start as things usually do for us at this venue. We […]
BOOKALORE AT BTA
An outing at Butterfly Talent Academy (BTA) definitely brings back some fantastic memories for the travelling children’s bookshop. On the morning of 7 December 2013, we were there bright and […]
STORYTELLER SHREYA BISWAS IN THE HOUSE
Usually, it is just the three of us at the office, working away in our respective rooms. We do meet, of course, for that important event of the working day […]
FUNKY RAINBOW WAS AT KATHAVANA 2015
Here, there, everywhere – that’s where you’ll find our travelling children’s bookshop! Here are a few photos from Kathavana Children’s Literature Festival, organized by the Azim Premji University between 9 […]
A MAGICAL MYSTERY WORLD
For Bookalore and Funky Rainbow, there is no better way to have a good time than to do an event that brings children and books together. So, as our August […]
FETE ON A FRIDAY
March is a month of rising temperatures, tempers and tensions, thanks both to summer and exam fever! How did one Montessori school in Bangalore decide to deal with all this? […]