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Children
get set, book a date with Bookaroo fest
Tuesday November 09, 2010 07:14:27 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Thousands of young readers will connect to their favourite writers
like Ruskin Bond and Anthony Horowitz during more than 70
interactive literary sessions at Bookaroo, one of the biggest
children's book festivals here.
The festival - its third edition will be held from Nov 14-28 this
year - promises to bring the best of children's literature,
including regional languages, across schools and at a common
venue.
Bookaroo will begin in multiple venues in leading schools across
the capital Nov 14-25 and will culminate in a carnival of
literature at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)
Nov 27-28.
The carnival will include a grand display-cum-sale of books and
literary activities, a statement said Tuesday.
It will bring some more celebrated children's authors,
illustrators, poets, performers and storytellers from around the
world, including Britain's Horowitz and India's own Ruskin Bond
and Arjun Vajpai.
Besides a new venue, the highlights of the festival this year
include a Schools' Day exclusively for students and teachers Nov
26 and Bookart 10, an exhibition of artworks by some of the finest
illustrators of children's books.
The literary sessions that have been designed to provoke young
intellects will be more interactive and performance oriented to
allow the books to register in the heads, the organisers said.
A storytelling session, "Under the Kahani Tree", will host writers
Paro Anand, Jeeva Raghunath and Anupa Lal, while "At the
Amphitheatre" will allow the children to let their imagination run
free.
Children can learn about secret signs and hidden languages with
Lian Tanner, listen to Wendy Orr and celebrate poetry with Wendy
Cooling and Prayag Shukla.
"In the studio" will feature performances by Dadi Pudumjee and the
Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust from their production "Giving Tree".
"At the Workshop" will allow children to create their own graphic
novel with Campfire, a upcoming graphic novel publishing unit.
Actor Jaaved Jafferi will jam with children and Gulzar will teach
children how to tell their own stories in a session, "On the
Stage". Children can play cloud football with author John Shulman
and innovate on Shakespeare with theatre personality Anirudh Nair
in a session, "At the Palms".
Cindy Jefferies will teach children how to make books "In the
Crafty Corner", while learning to draw alongside illustrators like
Atanu Roy, Suddhasattwa Basu and Taposhi Ghoshal in the "Doodle
Wall".
The festival, presented by Bookaroo Trust and Teamworks
Productions, promotes the excitement and importance of literature
locally, regionally and globally to encourage cultural exchange
and dialogue on education and development.
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