This isn't the usual literature festival where strings of panel discussions and book reading sessions pull crowds. Here, excited children gather for sessions where they learn fun facts about wild animals or doodle their little drawings or make cute collages.
In it's 8th edition this year, the Bookaroo Children's Literature Festival, a festival wholly dedicated to children across all ages, will take place over the weekend on November 28-29 at two venues- Shankar's Centre for Children and British School.
The festival this year will focus on children's literature from various regions of India with a special focus on Bangla literature including a chance to be introduced to the film maestro, Satyajit Ray.
In over 101 sessions across two days, children can participate in story-telling, art-craft and drama sessions, each segment having an exhaustive list of options to choose from.
The story-telling sessions will allow children to explore their creativity by writing stories through Patua art form, experimenting to write nonsense verses and poetry recitation among a host of other innovative sessions.
The art-craft section has sessions teaching kids to make spy-glasses, doodle art, working with clay to name a few things that young people like to do.
A total of 60 speakers from 10 countries including Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, France, Malaysia, UK and India will be participating in the festival.
The list of speakers include Aanchal Broca Kumar, Ranjit Lal, Anita Raina Thapan, Anupa Lal, Bandana Tulachan, Boori Monty Pryor, Lee Kowling, Martin Widmark and a array of others speakers each with the skill of brining literature and children together.
