![]() ![]() At the annual Jungle Dance the warthogs did the waltz, the rhino’s did the rock and roll and the chimps did the cha cha cha. However, what Gerald wanted to be good at, but was most definitely not, was dancing. Gerald the Giraffe was very good at ‘standing still and munching shoots off trees’. We began the session with first talking about how Giraffes’ have long neck! What are some of the advantages with that long neck? ![]() The theme of, be yourself and listen to your own inner music is just fabulous and connects immediately to a child who is above 3 years. The illustrations and rhymes in the book are outstanding. This brilliant book ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ by Giles Andrae was something which kids could immediately connect to. With school would come bullying and teasing etc. Most of them who were there today were of Aarav’s age and they were just going to start school in few days. Lesser the crowd always the better! Today for our reading session there were only five kids and oh what fun we had. Oh after the session my son wanted the whole Kk story and also what his name meant.įor those who don’t know Kumbha is pot, a kind of water pot Karna is hearing. And thanks to Darshan who said “aunty shall I sleep like KK and let other kids try and wake me up,” it was sooper fun doing this. Kids in the room enjoyed making crowns and kumbhakarna moustache. What happens in the end is something so hilarious. Dad begins the story and mid way Kukku goes to sleep and dreams of donkeys braying, trumpets, drums, soldiers and elephants walking all over to wake up Kumbhakarana who has been sleeping for six long months. Kukku the little boy like most of the children wants his appa (dad) to tell him the story of K. JK is a Mythological story retold in a simple and hillarious manner. Shreya Sen and Arundathi Venkatesh hats off to you both for this wonderful book. We began as usual with reading the name of the book and then the author and the illustrator. While two year old Sarayu waited for me to start five year old Ansh was also curious to know what the story is all about. ![]() So Kukku for Aarav was a character he could immediately connect to.ĭarshan a child of 12 years giggled too I asked him why he said “that picture!” I said “what about it?” Darshan- “i look just like kumbhakarna☺” It had been only few months since he stopped asking me for Kumbhakarna’s story every night before he slept. Reason being he snores a lot due to his protruded jaw issues and we at home make fun of him saying you snore like Kumbhakarna. ![]() The moment I said Junior Kumbhakarna my son Aarav couldn’t stop giggling. I had never seen kids in the chooku booku compartment laughing so much. Bubble ink writes for introducing us to this exchange. We also got introduced to animal like meerkat.Įxcellent read and brilliant activity. We learnt -How its nice to make friends and how we could think smart and help our friends who are in trouble. We made the jungle and even played walking through the jungle game. We then finished reading the book and he immediately wanted to do the beautifully packed, well instructed jungle activity from Itsy Bitsy. Now that he can read some of the words on his own he managed to read the title. He opened the parcel and was very happy to see ‘Mr Wrinkles’. I finally made time bought the book and coupled it with an interesting activity from itsy bitsy and mailed it to Vani. After few days I felt one of the best book any child can own is ‘The Giving Tree’. Now, this made me to decide on which book to send. I had cribbed about it so much that Aarav said ‘mamma, we will open this packet only after we send a book to Dhruv (vani’s son). But for me it was very embarrassing because I was so stuck with things at home that I really hadn’t got time to select a book and send it to Vani. He jumped with joy and couldn’t wait to open it. We received the package a month before and Aarav, who runs with joy and eagerness to collect any courier that comes home, came back with a beautifully wrapped courier which had his name written on it. Like my 5 year old son Aarav, Vani Balram also has a five year old who is equally passionate about books. We were teamed with cuddles and reads for the exchangs. When Bubble Ink writes proposed to participate in UK based The Educators’ Spin On It’s Love Book Summer Book Exchange I jumped at the chance to share a favourite story with another family and design an activity based on it for them to do at home just like we would.
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