These reading initiatives across India draw children into the evolving world of books
The Hindu
Be it an audiobook for kids by kids or children’s books curators, innovative reading initiatives for children nudged along by the pandemic continue to create a young community of bibliophiles
Books for babies, an audio book for kids by kids, a weekly online book bazaar... all these are pandemic-driven reading initiatives for children. .
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“Why are there no books for babies?” asks Treesa Tom, a Kochi-based book curator and teacher who began to read the picture book, Busy Animal Alphabet, to her son Christopher when he was still in her womb. She had read that the child in the womb begins to hear from the 26th week of gestation. After her son’s birth, during the pandemic, she continued to read to him and found that he showed signs of recognition to words like toucan and hippopotamus, which she used to read aloud with voice modulations.
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