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A good book inspires…imagine what a good library can do!!

The following poem is submitted by Miss Vanshika, a Longlongago member.

Flowers All Around!

Red is the rose,
Yellow is the sunflower,
just like the Sun.
White is the lilly,
which floats through the water,
just like lotus do.
flowers all around my house
flowers everywhere
flowers all around the world.

By,
Miss Vanshika Baskaran
I B, K’Sirs School
Coimbatore

You can view the original poem here.

Share and let your friends know that you ‘like’ the poem in our facebook page.

You can also submit your children’s work here. Send your membership number and content (Short stories, Poems, Reading Tips etc.,) to icreate@longlongago.in

The reading habit is a lifetime gift for a child, because reading builds language, knowledge,concentration and intellect in children.

“Happy Readers” is a unique child-friendly enrichment program which will develop a desire for reading from various sources, look at reading as a more enjoyable experience and feel more proud about the learning that comes out of it. This is accomplished through a series of child friendly activities like

1. Reading from various sources- Each day the trainer will cover different reading sources like different kind of story books/ informative books, tell me why books, journals etc..
2. Book reading with dialogues, expressions, read alouds and interaction
3. Book Quiz
4. Book Reviews
5. Authors Talk
6. Making of bookmark, bookipedia, book making etc.

The pre-book and post book activities included in this workshop is what it makes it unique.

A pre book activity may include some dialogues about what is this book about,(understanding the title) talking about authors, appreciation of the illustration., why this book has been written etc.The child’s imagination is made to work here

A post book activity will make sure that the joy of reading is put into action by drawing, sticking pictures and writing things about what they read. The learnings from the book are reinforced through this activity

Like this each pre-book and post book activities are guaranteed to kindle the spark of desire to read more.

The workshop concludes with the proud moment for the child when he/she creates her own book.

Title – Happy Readers
Venue – GRS Bridge 2 Learn, Y 49, 9th street, Near Ayyapan Temple, Anna Nagar, Chennai- 600040.
Time – 10 am to 12 pm
Date – 26th Dec, 2011 to 29th Dec 2011

For registrations contact Ms. Chitra @ 95661-93957 or chitra@longlongago.in

Visit our Facebook event page to know more about the event and our activities.

Longlongago members get a special discount.

Longlongago and Helen O’ Grady brings you ‘Book and Theatre Club for Children’. The book club BUZZ is launched by Children’s Book author Mr. Shrikumar Varma. BUZZ is a space for children who want to explore the world of reading, performing arts and creative expression.

Mr. Varma is known for his novels The Lament of Mohini, Maria’s Room, Devil’s Garden: Tales of Pappudom to name a few. Some of his popular plays include Bow of Rama, Midnight Hotel and Platform among many others. He was awarded the Charles Wallace fellowship in 2004, and was Writer in Residence at Stirling University, Scotland. He currently teaches Creative English at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. He has also taught English Literature and Journalism at the Madras Christian College. Mr. Varma is the great grandson of the artist Raja Ravi Varma and grandson of Regent Maharani Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, the last ruling Maharani of Travancore.

Date: 27th August 2011

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Agenda: 3:00 pm – Buzzer registration
3:15pm – Lighting of the lamp
3:17pm – Welcoming our chief guest
3.30 pm: Book Reading and story telling by Mr. Varma
4.30 pm: Buzzers talk
4.45pm: Long Long Ago – Buzzing books of the week.

Venue: Vivekalaya School, Trichy Road, Coimbatore

Please RSVP in our facebook page.

Come April and there is a flood of summer camps. Camp organizers choose kids centric themes like Art & Craft, Robotix, Do-it-yourself Projects, Fun camps, Story telling and what not. Parents are really confused which one should I choose for my child.

Here is a camp with a difference. “Stepping Stones” is “A Leadership SummerCamp” for Pre-teens and Teens (ages 10-16).

LongLongAgo teams up with Springboards as their Library partner for “Stepping Stones”. Springboards is a Leadership and TalentManagement company. They specialize is Soft skill training, Behavioural skills and leadership development of Corporate Employees. Stepping Stones is their maiden attempt in the area of training young adults.

The camp is a holistic approach towards the all round development of an child. The topics covered in the camp are

1. Leadership Skills
2. Communication Skills
3. Teamwork Skills
4. Creative Skills
5. Life Skills.

Children are trained in these areas through a series of games, activities , group discussions, and other fun filled activities.

LongLongAgo believes in developing reading as a skill. Springboards promote reading for developing communication skills. Thus our partnership was born.

LongLongAgo members in Chennai, you get 10% discount on the camp fees.

What are you waiting for ?

Hurry up! Unleash the hidden potential in your child. Make him/her a winner at School, with Friends and at home.

Learn more about the summer camp here.

We are constantly increasing our customer base and we always get additional requests to service other areas as far as Pune & Mumbai. We couldn’t cater all the service requests at this time.

We have been doing trial runs to Tirupur & Erode for a while and we are happy with the logistics arrangement we have made. For our initial customers we have levied an additional surcharge and they were more than happy to pay for the surcharge to get the books. We made an agreement with our logistics provider to cater to these areas as well.

Now we are excited to announce that we extend our service area to Tirupur & Erode at the same cost as other subscribers without any surcharge.

Call our coimbatore office if you need any further information at Tel: 80562-36199

You can visit our website and register and pay online using NetBanking, Credit Cards or Debit Cards and you will get your books shipped the same day if you register by 16:00 hrs.

You can always send us a mail at info at longlongago.in

We were busy updating more titles to our website and we have books in many Indian languages.

We suddenly asked ourselves where are our visitors coming from…so we turned to Google Analytics.

We were in for a surprise as we had visitors from all over India and we expected to get a concentrated visits from the cities we currently service in: Bangalore, Chennai & Coimbatore.

Our library has gone live (opened for public!) for some months and we have greeted with enthusiastic reactions online and we were featured in the ‘The Hindu – Young World’ and we have been deluged by mails since then. One of the most asked questions was where can we visit the library and whom we can reach to talk about it.

Surely we were not prepared for this as we are busy stocking the library with good children’s books.

So how to call an online library ?!?

When we started with the idea for the library we know we wanted the complete collection catalogued online as online provides a certain advantages over physical library. There is a good reason why every physical library has an online booking functionality. Search & recommendations are integral part in finding a good book.

We realized the library has generated good interest in the public but also generated many questions simply the FAQ was not enough. People wanted to talk to a real person.

So we are taking calls now.

From now you can call us between 10:00 to 19:00 in the following numbers

Yesterday we started shipping books to our members. Yee!!

We wanted to find a green – reusable – attractive – shipping friendly design for the book pouches. The search was not easy.

I think we found a good solution now.

We found pouch which had all the qualities we were looking for.

We thank you our early adapters who gave us very important and valuable feedback.