Pratham Books Champion : Takshila Educational Society and DPS (Patna, Pune, Ludhiana and Coimbatore)

Shradha from Takshila Educational Society helped coordinate 82 storytelling sessions this year. Here are some of the stories from Delhi Public School (Patna, Pune, Ludhiana and Coimbatore)

DPS Ludhiana ILD 2016 Report by Pratham Books on Scribd

DPS Coimbatore ILD 2016 Report by Pratham Books on Scribd

DPS Patna ILD 2016 Report by Pratham Books on Scribd

DPS Pune : International Literacy Day 2016 by Pratham Books on Scribd

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Thank you Shradha for coordinating the sessions and to all the DPS branches for spreading the joy of stories.

In its fifth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 3000+ storytellers who conducted 3200+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'! 

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog. View more stories from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2016. 

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city. 

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Sanchita G

The following story was sent to us by Sanchita G. Sanchita says,

I am a bookworm because my parents introduced me to the magical and endearing world of stories. Everyone, however, is not so lucky.

As a‪#‎PBChamp‬ I read a delightful tale about a boy who wanted a drum. There was an abundance of joy and an awesome community coming together to spread the joy of reading.

I had a marvelous time reading a simple yet beautiful story to a group of about 50 avid and attentive listeners from slums in and around government school at Mataur village, Mohali. And they had a good time as well along with some song and laughs too.

Thank you Sanchita for spreading the joy of reading!

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In its fourth edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 2500+ storytellers who conducted 2300+ storytelling sessions. Many, many steps towards a 'Reading India'!

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog.

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2015. This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories.

You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Jyoti Bhat

For International Literacy Day (8th September), we had a dream - we wished that 100 people would volunteer to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We ended up finding more than 250 champions to conduct storytelling sessions across the country. We will be sharing the stories of all our champions through our blog.

This story was sent by Jyoti Bhat. 

Session held on 8th September, Bathinda

Jyoti writes ...

I cant tell you in words how happy I am to have been a part of this great initiative of a book in every child's hand. Two of the biggest outcomes of the event were 

a) Announcement of starting a Book Club once in every 15 days by the children 

b) Headmistress of the school my children go to ( The Millenium school at HMEL Township) was so much impressed with the idea of this book reading and activities we did; that she announced that they too will conduct the book reading and activities session in the school next week. There are around 200 kids in the school who will take part in the event.

About the event : it was wonderful experience for me to read the book. Believe me, till I decided to become Pratham Books champion; I had not heard the word "Kolam" before and didn't know what this book is all about. But as I started exploring on net; I got such interesting information on it and the same turned out to be the case with children.

One of the biggest benefit we had today at this place 40kms away from Bathinda was that there were children from many parts of India, Assam, West Bengal, UP, Maharashtra, Bihar, Gujarat n Karnataka. So we got good opportunity to discuss their festivals, their methods of drawing rangolis etc. We also discovered that in earlier days, people used to use rice powder to draw kolams so that ants too can have feast on the festival. There are so many names of kolam in many languages... one Bengali girl actually knew the name Alpana.

After introduction, I didnt have to read the book, all children volunteered and read one by one. We discussed a lot of things Susheela did and how she did those things. Once the book reading was over, I gave chalks to small children below 5 and sent them on the staircase to draw their own kolams and then discussed the medium to be used for kolams with older kids. They came up with all possible alternatives like rangoli, holi colours, flowers, leaves, lentils and I had them all kept ready. They made groups and worked on the kolams. I had specially invited my good friend Bhagyashri to draw a "Samskar bharati Rangoli" which needs little bit skill, n children would get to see something beautiful coming out of the colours.

After the session all the children were so much excited; some of them started reading the books from racks n others were after me to announce next session. 

The feedback given by children summarizes it all,

"I am very happy today, I learnt something new". "I saw beautiful kolam designs turning out of simple things". Thank you for inviting me"

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Thank you Jyoti for spreading the joy of reading!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations.

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If any of you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at web(at)prathambooks(dot)org.