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The Madhatters Club Update!

Posted by thebookleaf on August 6, 2010 at 2:33 AM Comments comments (0)

As we near the next meeting of The Madhatters Club, I realized that I did not write about the fun we had while discussing The Chronicles of Narnia during the last meet! We met on the 25th of July and had a group that turned up for the discussion! As it was pouring, sitting inside The Book Leaf cosily and talking about the book turned out to be a great idea. Most of the members had seen the movie though some...

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Madhatters' Discuss Oliver Twist

Posted by Avid Reader on July 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM Comments comments (0)

One of our Madhatters was so engrossed in reading his Amar Chitra Katha inside The Book Leaf that we had to entice him outside where the place was all set for the Madhatters' meet, with the promise of a game of chess! But I am glad to report that he was as enthusiastic as the others once the discussion started and we had him and the others visualizing Dickensian England and relating incidents, situations and characters described in the story to ones that they are ...

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Announcement: Winners of the Creative Writing Competition & The Madhatter's Book Reading Club

Posted by thebookleaf on June 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM Comments comments (0)

Ah! The long awaited announcement of the winner of the Creative Writing Competion is finally here! Yes, kids, all of you who have penned your words, it was a tough decision for the judges. However, based on originality, creativity, ideas and language, a winner there certainly is!


The First Prize goes to Nandini and you can read her  words of creativity

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Creative writing workshop

Posted by thebookleaf on May 28, 2010 at 5:30 AM Comments comments (0)

Apologies for the late update on the Creative Writing workshop held on May 22 2010 @ The Book Leaf.


Finally managed to upload photos, but still collecting the stories written by our budding and aspiring writers.


The kids were given visuals aids upon which they could base their story and many of them turned out interesting stuff- though they all wanted to draw their stories! (Animation/ cartoon TV zindabad??)


Each took a corner of their ow...

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