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Varsha Seshan

The Gruffalo’s Child

September 26, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

 

Filed Under: Children, Workshops Tagged With: reading

Reading Challenge Workshop at Mumbai

September 3, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Twelve hours of travel-time, and a three-hour workshop. I can’t promise to do it again, yet it was fun! The British Council, Mumbai, has rolled out the reading challenge programme in […]

Filed Under: Children, Workshops Tagged With: Mumbai, reading, reading challenge, Universal High, workshop

The Story-Catcher – A Review by a 9-year-old

August 25, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’ve been waiting for something momentous before writing my blog – what could be more momentous than a review of The Story-Catcher by a nine-year-old? Arushi Upadhyaya had to design a […]

Filed Under: Books, Children, Writing Tagged With: reading, review, story-catcher

Books for Rainy Days

July 29, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I wrote, mainly because I’ve been reading. Here’s a look at some of what I’ve read recently. As a child, I enjoyed reading and collecting the entire Animal […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: A Nest of Vipers, A Wrinkle in Time, Catherine Johnson, Nicola Pierce, reading, review, Silver Dolphins, Spirit of the Titanic, Summer Waters

What Went By

July 14, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s taken me a while to write about the last month. How full of emotions it has been! We performed in Kalakshetra for Pushpa Teacher and Jaya Teacher, my teacher’s […]

Filed Under: Dance, Travel, Workshops Tagged With: Atta Galatta, Bharatanatyam, Guru Mythili Raghavan, Kalakshetra, reading, story-catcher, workshop

Day One: Reading Workshop at Atta Galatta

July 4, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s wonderful to have a dear childhood friend attend a workshop of mine and diligently take pictures! I had a delightful morning at my reading workshop at Atta Galatta, Bangalore.

Filed Under: Children, Workshops Tagged With: Atta Galatta, Bangalore, Bengaluru, reading, workshop

Empty Quarter (Girl on the Run Book 2)

June 29, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I sat at Coimbatore train station, book in hand. “What happened?” asked my sister, looking at my face. I grinned. “I’m inside this book.” I added, quickly, “Will you keep […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Darcie Lock, Empty Quarter, Julia Golding, reading, review

Reading Workshop at Atta Galatta, Bengaluru

June 26, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’m conducting a two-day reading workshop at Bengaluru! Highlights: >Read aloud >Act out a story >Develop a love for reading >Imagine and create >Play a vocabulary game >Learn about book-publishing […]

Filed Under: Children, Workshops Tagged With: Atta Galatta, Bengaluru, reading, workshop

Cauldron Spells

June 12, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

What happens when a foolish dragon falls into a cauldron and makes it too misshapen for it to function normally? What happens when the bottle of frogspell that you thought you […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

The Indian in the Cupboard

June 10, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I picked up The Indian in the Cupboard full of apprehension. For a long time, I have intended to read this book. Yet, I have realised of late that I have read […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Sea of Tears

June 8, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

The cover illustration of Sea of Tears was just lovely. The wake of a boat curving into a big ‘S’, a little girl looking out at the sea … It was […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Berlin Olympics

June 5, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I picked up Berlin Olympics assuming it was about a real person. Sure, I expected historical fiction, but my knowledge of Olympic swimmers is not good enough to have known that Eleanor Rhys […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Cat’s Cradle

May 24, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Sometimes, especially when you read a lot of different kinds of books that you’ve picked up based solely on the cover, one book jumps out and takes you by surprise. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Cat's Cradle, Julia Golding, reading, review

Reading and Writing Workshop

May 21, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I have one photograph with the children at Cedarwood!  

Filed Under: Children, Workshops, Writing Tagged With: reading, workshop

Reading and Writing Workshop at Cedarwood

May 20, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Half of my reading and writing workshop at Cedarwood is over, and I’ve finally convinced myself that I am not going to be taking any photographs. I keep intending to, […]

Filed Under: Children, Workshops, Writing Tagged With: Cedarwood Afterschool, reading, workshop

Pippi in the South Seas

May 17, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

No, I have not yet Pippi Longstocking. Maybe I should apologise. In my defence, I have wanted to read it for very long. When I read Pippi in the South Seas, I […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Billy the Bird

May 16, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Dick King-Smith is an author I love. Whenever I pick up a book by him, I do so with complete faith in the story. As usual, I was not disappointed. […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Sovay

May 14, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

A book that promised to be exciting, I think the best thing I can say about Sovay is that the story made me curious enough to keep reading until I finished the […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

The Truth about Leo

May 6, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

It’s unfair to compare any book with any other book, I know that. Yet, I could not resist comparing The Truth about Leo with Moon-Pie. The subject was similar – a dead mother […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: reading, review

Summer Camp – Cedarwood Afterschool

April 30, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

For all those who have been asking me whether I have any workshops planned for the summer … I’m doing four exciting weeks under the banner of the Cedarwood Afterschool Program […]

Filed Under: Children, Workshops Tagged With: Afterschool, Cedarwood, communication, language, reading, workshop, writing

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