Book Week 2024-2025

Book Week was celebrated in the second week of September (9 th to 13th September). A host of literary events were conducted during this week. Each day a small excerpt from a book was read out to get the students interested in reading the book and to improve their listening skills. Each day began with a reading of a small excerpt from The Magic Tree House series for Grade 1, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Grade 2, Matilda for Grade 3, Mary Poppins for Grade 4 and Glimpses from World History for Grade 5.

Library activities such as story writing, writing blurbs and book titles for the primary grades were conducted in addition to the Reading Program activities. Furthermore, the week witnessed authors and storytellers who enthralled the students with their various forms of storytelling. Grades 1 and 2 were the audience for a storytelling session by Ms. Sharada Sampath Kumar, a professional storyteller from Bangalore who conducts regular storytelling sessions for audiences across all ages. For Grades 3 and 4, a session with a children’s author, Ms. Ridhi Maniar Doda who has published the books such as ‘The Boy Who Wore Bangles’, published by Karadi Tales and ‘Drip Drip Lick Lick Meow Meow’, ‘Colour Drama’ and ‘64 Squares with Dada’, published by Sonalika Publications. Ms. Ridhi took them through an animated story-reading session of her book followed by a Q&A session.

Grade 5 met with Ms. Vidya Varadarajan, an author from Scholastic who has published many mystery novels. She also read a short excerpt of her book ‘Mystery of the Graveyard Gold’ followed by Q&A session where students also won books written by the author.

Every year, Book Week aims to add to the joy of reading, opening up new genres of reading through peer discussions and this year has added one more step that we need to take to let our children explore the world of books.