Cricket - Craze of the month


Cricket…it’s our way of life, love of life! Simply watching the game does not satisfy our appetite for this game. With IPL season 10 going on, cricket is in the air every minute of our day. Discussions around cricket are a hot topic everywhere, at home, at work, at schools or at social gatherings. We love to talk about the game and to know our players more both professionally and personally .

This is a good time to read a few books around cricket together as a family. Cherish some family time, feed some intense discussions and take your love and knowledge of the game to the next level!

Few suggestions-


Playing It My Way: My Autobiography by Boria Majumdar and Sachin Tendulkar




Podcasts: A free resource for listening to good children stories


With the advent of podcast, its ever-growing popularity and usage, an abundance of shows about children books is available on the internet. A podcast is an audio show, usually spread across a series of episodes, available on internet, which can be accessed on phone or computer. Podcast can be a perfect way to strengthen your love of literature. Listen to good children literature with your child. It gives an opportunity to listen to a book by a skilled narrator who can bring out emotions and humour of the book. Listening to a book can help your child learn correct pronunciations, punctuations and new words while enjoying listening to a good story. Some podcast shows not only read aloud books to you but discuss the books and talk to authors also.

Reading aloud to older children

I thought that perhaps reading aloud to tweens/teens was too juvenile a practice, but a little research revealed the opposite.

Jim Trelease is an educator and author who stresses reading aloud to children to instil in them the love for literature.

Per him, reading aloud to your child is like an advertisement for reading. When you read aloud, you are creating a child’s interest in reading. A child who has been read to, will want to learn to read herself. She will want to do what she sees her parent doing. But if a child never sees anyone pick up a book, she is not going to have that desire.

Reading aloud to older children-even up to age 14, who can comfortably read to themselves- has benefits both academic and emotional, says Jim Trelease.

People often say,” My child is in fourth grade and she already knows how to read, why should I read to her?”
The reply is, “Your child may be reading on a fourth-grade level, but what level is she listening at?”
Per Jim, a fourth grader can enjoy a more complicated plot than she can read herself, and reading aloud is going to hook her. Children have no problem with comprehension when they are using their listening skills.