BOOKASUR: A DEMON WHO EAT BOOKS

Reading month was celebrated in the vidyalaya from 19thjune till 18thjuly. The month long reading activities have been conducted in the vidyalaya“to enculcate reading habits among students” Number of competitions , workshops, sessions, donations, yatras were performed. We participated in “Shimla international literature festival”which was a good exposure for the students and they happen to meet and interact many literary person from Different parts of india. Students participated in many activiteies there and brought laureal to the Vidyalaya. We also had “ meet the author session” where MeenakshiChaoudary the writer of “Ghost stories of Shimla” met with the students who participated in Story telling competition. Reading yatra was performed to make people realize the importance of reading. During the yatra which was from school to Ridge ,students told the tourist and the local people to leave their mobile for some time and read . free newspaper were also distributed to them. Then we have made a library app for android and ios phones. Master Anshul and msIshratParveen Librarian in collaboration were the creater of the app. Principal sir MrMohit Gupta launched the app in front of students and it was appreciated by all. Important feature of app are one can see school website and library blog plus one can have access to e-book which are uploaded in the app. Main attraction was the appearance of “booksura” a monster who eats book.