One of the batches at the Young Readers' Club is reading Roald Dahl's Giraffe, Pelly & Me. Being a big fan of Roald Dahl, I thoroughly...

When you sit with a group of tweens who also are your reading companions and an unplanned topic such as children's books set in world war...

The labels stick and the notion gets engrained in children. So much so, they don't associate themselves as readers. They read because...

Reading a book can be a cathartic experience for some children, for some it could be a source of entertainment and for others it might...

First step is to enable children to identify themselves as readers. Learning to read means decoding skills and acquisition of a whole...

Is it possible to go overboard with detail in an attempt to fill in gaps that a reader may point out at a later date? How does one know...

Dialogue writing can be a very useful tool in writing as illustrated in several captivating children's books. Encouraging children to...

Do these skills get acquired only if a child appears in short term courses, oratorical competitions and debates? Perhaps yes. But these...

Here is why "retelling" is a critical component of enhancing your child's reading comprehension abilities. Recommending a book that they...

Just like my young reading companions, I like to bring forth books that I have read recently and absolutely loved. Yesterday, my young...

My association with books as a reader has always been the luxury of travelling across the world from the comfort of my reading chair...

Sounds impossible? Not exactly. With an amazing book such as this one, the readers at the young readers' club managed to travel to four...

I have always associated reading with unwinding on my favorite chair with a steaming hot cup of coffee within arm's reach. This book kept...

The lessons that my young reading companions taught me. I once recommended Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger to a few young readers....

Then stop insisting that your children must read your book recommendations. #choiceofbooks #librariesacrossIndia #children'sbooks...

Children's literature is filled with a variety of interesting characters, some who can be utterly unrealistic like perhaps Ms.Trunchbull...

There is a tendency to focus on maths and second language and even third language in a child's learning curriculum and rightly so....

Simply asking questions from the passage to test comprehension skills is hardly useful in enabling young readers to acquire the skill of...

We love experimenting with a variety of books at the Young Readers' Club. Comics and graphic novels aren't shunned but appreciated as...

What does a children's book author read for fun? What does reading mean to an author? All this and many more questions were on our minds....