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Marching Back to School with Mala Kumar
Friday the 17th of April, 2015 brought the Bookalore team to Army Public School for a fun activity-filled morning. Amidst shouts, squeals and peals of laughter, Mala Kumar conducted a storytelling...
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Buy 'Books by Weight' at the Book Bonanza
If you live in Bengaluru, you may want to check out the 'Book Bonanza' happening in Jayanagar. We tweeted about it yesterday and then heard from someone who had seen the tweet :@prathambooks Thanks for...
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Three More Days to Send in Your Stories for the Retell, Remix and Rejoice...
We are drawing close to the end of our annual Retell, Remix and Rejoice Contest. If you've not yet started writing your story, you need to start NOW! Our inbox is full of stories and some remixers are...
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Urdu Authors' Workshop
A few weeks ago, we held an Urdu Authors' Workshop in Delhi. The workshop was featured by The Hindu. This past weekend, at a workshop-cum-brainstorming session organised by Pratham Books, 22 Urdu...
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New Books on the Pratham Books Mobile App
For World Book Day, we released our entire batch of new titles online - for you to read and download for FREE! Now most of the books (except the bilinguals) are up on the Pratham Books Mobile App. 8...
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How children learn to read...it's all in the head, really
How children learn to read does depend on their socioeconomic surroundings, and other factors. But mostly, it is about a region in the brain called the 'white matter' says researcher Fumiko Hoeft, a...
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Plans for a Book Town in Maharashtra
Maharashtra is planning to promote a new “town of books”. Sandeep A Ashar shares more about this proposal on The Indian Express.At a time when traditional book stores are shutting down in the face of...
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How Priya Narayanan's Story Travelled After Winning the RRR Contest
One year, we skipped hosting our annual Retell, Remix and Rejoice Contest. We found out about the popularity of the contest only when people mailed us to ask why we weren't hosting it. Another way we...
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Pratham Books at India Public Libraries Conference 2015
Pratham Books was a participant at this year's India Public Libraries Conference (IPLC) held between 17th-19th March 2015. Purvi Shah who was a speaker at the conference tells us more ...Bringing the...
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Intern with the German Book Office (New Delhi) this Summer
Our friends at German Book Office (GBO, New Delhi) are looking for someone to assist them on a short term project.Via an email from GBO, New DelhiEvent Marketing InternshipAre you a go getter and...
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A Remixed Story Hits the Stage
A tweet from Modern Troubadours had us giggling when we saw that humans aren't the only ones who are excited to participate in the Retell, Remix and Rejoice Contest. @prathambooks My cat enjoyed the...
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Shilpa's Chronicles at Pratham Books
Shilpa Gopal has been interning with us since the end of November and has been helping the digital team immensely as they prepare to launch two platforms this year. Shilpa writes about her experience...
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On Books About Farmers and Farming
Bijal Vachharajani writes about why it is important for children to read books about farmers. One of our books (The First Farmers) also gets a mention in her article.Via daily OCocooned in our urban...
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For Rural Readers : Delhi Public Library's Mobile Service
Via The Times of IndiaOn Saturdays, it's Majra Dabas and Ghevra villages. In the rural parts of northwest Delhi, the Delhi Public Library's mobile service provides the only option available to children...
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#PBSummerReads : Celebrating Summer With Stories
Mangoes, afternoon naps, watermelons,holiday homework,multiple games of gully cricket, kulfi, fighting with siblings on bored afternoons, nana-nani ka ghar, trying on mummy's sarees,train journeys,...
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Reading Ideas for the Child Who Needs to Move
The summer holidays are here and kids have a lot of time to play, read and enjoy this time. Melissa Taylor shares some reading ideas for the child who finds it difficult to sit and read:Via...
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Read to Play Contest
Earlier this week, we launched the #PBSummerReads campaign. #PBSummerReads means one book for every day of the summery May. Every day we upload a book on this Facebook album and link to all the...
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मूर्तिमंत उत्साह
For Mother's Day, Sandhya Taksale (editor, Pratham Books) shares her memories of her mother. When Sandhya thinks of her mother, her enthusiasm and love for life comes to her mind - for teaching,...
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अब इसको क्या नाम दूँ?
For Mother's Day, Rajesh Khar (editor, Pratham Books) shares how his mother motivated him to become the person he is now. In this piece, one sees how our mother's love and the little things she does...
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Book Review : The Auto That Flew
Menaka S reviews The Auto That Flew (written by Ken Spillman, illustrated by Ajanta Guhathakurta ) on PlusMinus’n’More.From the word go, Ken Spillman captivates the reader and arrests him/her with his...
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