Thoughts

I am reading John Holt's 'Why Children Fail' book and it is very interesting.

I am impressed with the way the emotional maturity is being portrayed in films of late. For instance in YJHD - Kalki's character is shown to have a soft corner for Aditya's and Aditya is shown to be completely oblivious to it. Later when Ranbir comes for her marriage and asks why she did not go with Aditya. She says you noticed and he says everybody except him did and then she just shrugs and says he was never there in that relationship it was just me so I moved on.




 

Summer reading program

 Summer vacation for me meant lazing around reading books morning and afternoon and taking a nice long walk in the evening to get more books from the library and if my mom was in an indulgent mood she would let us get curry puffs fresh from the bakery on our way home. Bliss in short.

Now activity being the main theme the summer vacations have changed too. Come Summer the Husband and I start thinking about which camps to choose for the kids and what activities to pick. Various camps offer various activities tailored per the kids age and their hobbies.

Reading and story telling is one of these activities that has survived the test of time and modernization, in fact it has become the accelerator for more inventions (think ipad, kindle etc). It is a skill that needs to be inculcated in little kids. If one happens to sift through the summer camps you will see that not many of them offer a camp for reading. So it truly is a commendable effort on part of UTBT to be doing a summer reading camp.

Her camp is being held at Treasurehouse in Hyderabad. So if you have little kids and want to teach them the enjoyable skill of reading,  get them to this camp. A great time to be a kid and an even greater time to have somebody putting in such effort into it!

Books, More books

If you want to get Pratham and CBT books in Hyderabad, the place to try is AA Hussain book stores in Abids, they have a good collection.

Book selection center Sultan Bazaar, near Arya Samaj Mandir also has some CBT books.

Angel and Apple are now at a stage where they can read a single line page. We still do read aloud stuff where I am reading and they are just looking at the pages and listening. Yesterday we started the "Sister Sister where does the sun go at night?" and they enjoyed the book.

Saptaparini

After having settled in Hyderabad, V and I were both looking for Barnes and Nobles kind of book stores here. We found crosswords and a few others and did visit them a few times. But when the blogging world (ST, Tharini, StarryEyed, ItchingtoWrite and other blogs that I regularly visit) became all gung ho about Tulika books, I started looking out for Tulika books as well.

Unfortunately, The few places we had visited, Either did not stock them or worse had not even heard about them. I sighed and went about my life.

The one story that Tulika published, Ekki Dokki, my mom knows and had introduced it to A&A anyways, so life was good. What can I say I am not too greedy ;) or am lazy.

Google had thrown up one other book store in my various searches, namely Saptaparini, I thought of going there but never got around to. Remember lazy.

Today during lunch a couple of my colleagues said they are visiting the store (2 mins walk from my new work place, yes am back to the grind!), I said I will tag along and in I walk and what do I see 2 shelves loaded with Tulika books. Imagine my surprise. Picked up Ekki Dokki (but ofcourse!), a few Amar chitra katha which I still vividly remember reading as a small child, a couple other picture books.

Browsing around saw all the kreeda games there as well, maha impressed with the book store and do plan to go there again. Thanks blogging buddies, I knew which books to pick up right away as I had already read your reviews.