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Aline Pereira,
on 1/31/2013
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Continuing our focus on WaterBridge Outreach participants
Laguna BelAir School, today we feature the inspiring feedback of Mr. Romel Obinario, Academic Team Head and Institutional Values Formation Program Head.
At the heart of every PaperTigers book is a message for all of humanity. The message each book conveys is 
relevant, timeless, and transcends the boundaries set by current economic, political, or cultural constructs that continue to impinge on the way peoples of the world interact today.
We at Laguna BelAir School have realized the affinity between our core values and those of the PaperTigers (PT) organization, as conveyed in the PT books that the organization has sent us. By sharing the PT books with our students, we are also imparting our core values in a way that is not awkward and forced. Through the books, they may realize that the things we say we value are not simply words to be memorized but are ideals that other people cherish and live out. Through their constant exposure to these wonderful books, and their continuous experiences in the school’s different advocacies, they may truly become what we wish them to be – stewards for a better world.
Thank you, Paper Tigers, for involving us in your outreach program. We share in Wangari Maathai’s (Planting the Trees of Kenya) advocacy of caring for the environment by planting trees and in her belief in women and in communities working together to bring about much-needed reforms. We are inspired by Kojo’s (One Hen) example of thrift and of making a difference one small step at a time. The way we view people with cultures or beliefs other than ours is challenged by the way friendship is forged between Abaani and Haki (First Come the Zebra), thereby promoting peaceful coexistence. And we are truly inspired by the boy (A Child’s Garden: A Story of Hope) who despite all adversity finds hope for a better future in a war-ravaged land.
Today we continue our focus on Laguna BelAir School, located in Santa Rosa City, Philippines, and their involvement in our WaterBridge Outreach Project. The first post in the series can be read here.
Working with Ms. Vin Del Rosario, Laguna BelAir’s head librarian, PaperTigers sent 2010 and 2011 book sets to the school. These book sets were used by Ms. Del Rosario in implementing an inspiring reading program for her students in grades 2 to 6. More information about the reading program can be found here and a video of the program can be watched here.
Feedback on the book sets is a crucial part of our project as we want to share the responses of teachers and librarians, children and parents, to the book sets with others around the world. Feedback can be like ripples in a pond, spreading out across the globe, and one never knows what hearts and minds might be moved, and lives touched, by the book sets. Ms. Del Rosario went above and beyond in providing us with feedback from the students and teachers at her school and as our Feedback Coordinator Dr. Barbara Bundy recently stated “We are awed and also very grateful to all of you at Laguna BelAir School for treasuring these books and using them to engage your pupils and to promote both reading and cultural literacy on the one hand, and the values of your own school on the other hand.”
Following is some of the wonderful feedback we received from Laguna BelAir students. Click here to read all the feedback submitted.
Biblioburro
Please read the book because it is full of lessons about life. I’ve learned that one way to help solve poverty in the country is by sharing your knowledge to less fortunate ones, like what Luis did in the story.
Luis and I are both book lovers. We like to read books to other people. We are inspired with the stories we read.
Rain School
The part that I liked the most was when the students are building their school. I was amazed how the children who are so young would volunteer and help to build their school.
I recommend this book because I know that the readers would love it and enjoy it. They will be happy to know the culture of Africa.
A Child’s Garden
I recommend this book because it is a story of hope and undying love for the environment. It is also a nice story because even though the soldiers destroyed the plant, the boy did not lose hope. That is a good example for children like us.
Planting the Trees of Kenya
The similarity between my way of life and Wangari’s is that we both aim to help people in the best way we can. I admire Wangari because she helped others to rise from poverty by giving the people seedlings, teaching them how to plant, and telling people how to plant more instead of cutting and removing trees.
The Storyteller’s Candle
My favorite character is Pura Belpre because she is a talented storyteller. She has the ability to motivate and inspire others to read books.
First Comes The Zebra
My favorite part of the story is when the sun rising over the grassland in Kenya.
This promises to be a special week here on the blog as we spend the next few days highlighting feedback from one of our WaterBridge Outreach participants: Laguna BelAir School in Santa Rosa City, Philippines.
Our WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water Nourishing the Mind and Body program (formerly known as Spirit of PaperTigers Outreach) seeks to further the overall goals of the PaperTigers Program: bridging cultures and opening minds, promoting greater understanding and empathy among young people from different backgrounds, countries, and ethnicities. More specifically, WBOutreach works to advance education through books and reading, and development through clean and accessible water.
Since 2009, the “Books” portion of WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water has seen us put specially chosen book sets into the hands of young readers through schools and libraries, encouraging literacy, developing understanding and making reading a lifelong habit. Each year’s set is comprised of books that we feel provide “multicultural” or “trans-cultural” stories that promote awareness of, knowledge about, and positive acceptance of “the other” in ways children can learn and enjoy. We are convinced of the crucial role of literacy and reading in an education that fosters understanding and empathy. Click here for information on the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Book Sets can be found here and includes reviews of the books, interviews with authors and illustrators, illustrator galleries, and publishing information.
Laguna BelAir School has participated in our Book Set program for the past 3 years under the guidance of the school’s amazing head librarian, Ms. Vin Del Rosario. Using the books Ms. Del Rosario implemented an inspiring reading program for her students in grades 2 to 6. Ms. Del Rosario writes:
You have chosen quality book sets, books that contain values that are important to us. It was easy for us to share the books with our students as the stories and illustrations “capture” our students’ interests.
I initiated the PaperTigers reading program to create an avenue to encourage our students to read the books in a fun way. It is also the library’s way of helping the English subject teachers to get feedback on the PaperTigers books.
This reading program is a class effort. It encourages class participation. The more these students read in a class, the faster they can reach their reading goal. Reading points were assigned to different PaperTigers books. Class advisers and Reading teachers encourage students to participate in the reading program.
The students visit the library to read the PaperTigers books during their snacks and lunch break. After reading a book, the student is given a “book completion form”, which is a small piece of paper with two or three questions about the book. Students earn points for each form they complete and are awarded a “mini book certificate”.
Originally, I had intended to run the reading program up to November 2012. However, due to the overwhelming responses of the students, we completed it by the end of September!
We have been posting Laguna BelAir’s written feedback on the book sets on our Outreach page here. Earlier this month we received this video from Laguna BelAir school that documents their Spirit of PaperTigers reading program! Such a thrill for us to see the students and staff of the school engaging with the books we sent and I think we can all agree that Ms. Del Rosario’s reading program was a HUGE success!
http://youtu.be/v1ns1yb23T0
Bookshelf #28:
D. and S.
9 years old and 8 years old
Bangalore, India
The kids’ bookshelves are dual purpose shelves, filling a space on top of the stairs that we didn’t want either the kids or the puppy to tumble out of. The raised ledge there meant that the custom built shelves don’t take up valuable floor space, fitting well into an otherwise unusable space. The rocking chair, a hanging chair in another corner and a futon make this space a cozy space to read, do charts and homework with our ‘research’ being close by. One of our favourite spaces in the house.
My children are readers, one from very early on and the other needing some intervention to go from reluctant reader to engaged reader in the past year or two. One major reason (in my opinion) is access to books and the availability of a variety of books in our house. When the right book comes along, it is impossible to not pick it up! As a result of thinking things through, I got to read books that I missed reading when I was growing up like the entire Anne of the Green Gables series and Little House on the Prairie.
Submitted by: Sangitha, blogging at Life and Times in Bangalore
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Bookshelf #27:
A.
11 years old
Bangalore, India
Here are some of my daughter’s treasures that I would like to share. Pardon the relative disarray: I haven’t got around to making bookshelves yet. These are housed in wardrobes that were cleansed of any clothes and other inconsequential stuff. The first photo is books at hand that A. has earmarked as ‘to be read over the next few weeks’. Note the Bill Bryson book at the far right in the upper row: A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. The second photo is of books A. has read. The third photo is the other half of the shelf shown in photo 2. Harry Potter books, Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series are behind these as is our collection of picture books by the Indian publishers. The thin red and white books obscured by the issue of Tell Me Why are our collection of the Amelia Bedelia books.
Submitted by: Sandhya, blogging at Saffron Tree and My Handful of the Sky!
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Bookshelf #26:
Prarthana
5 years old
Mumbai, India
This is my 5 year old daughter Prarthana’s bookshelf. She has been an avid book lover since she was very very young! I still have the few odd cloth books that she used to chew on (quite literally!) when she was a baby. As an avid story teller herself – books are just a gateway to her imagination. Every time she picks up a new or old book, she builds up from the pictures to spin her very own unique yarns! Now that she has started to read, re-visiting books is an adventure again. I can see the joy in her eyes every time she can read a new word or decipher a phrase. She has now truly begun her journey into losing herself in a world of words and alternate realities. And it is with great pride that I observe her swelling yet well thumbed down bookshelf!
Submitted by: Nidhi at Momming around in Mumbai
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Bookshelf #24:
Mia Wenjen (Pragmatic Mom)
Boston, MA, USA
Mom of three, Mia Wenjen is better known in the kidlit blogging world as Pragmatic Mom. She blogs on “picture books through YA with a special focus on Newbery/Caldecott/Printz quality books, Asian & people of color characters/authors, special needs, graphic novels and math/science.”
“I started reading children’s lit again…when I realized I was giving my oldest Newbery Award Winning books that were her reading level, but were inappropriate because of content. As my middle child started reading independently, she was so picky that I had to wrack my brain to get her books she likes. And my youngest, who is just starting to read, has gone on a reading strike lately. So, there you have it. It’s always a challenge to find “just-right” books and that has become my life.”
Submitted by: PragmaticMom, Education Matters. You can also follow her on Twitter (PragmaticMom) and Facebook (PragmaticMom)
For details on how to submit a photo of your child’s bookshelf to our Around the World in 100 Bookshelves, click here.
If you scroll down our blog page and look at the widgets on the right-hand side you will see one entitled “Around the World in 100 Bookshelves”. What is this you ask?
We started our Around the World in 100 Bookshelves project in 2009 in the hopes of featuring 100 of our reader’s bookshelves from, well, around the world! It is our hope that our combined photos will offer a glimpse of a big world made smaller through books and reading. So far we have received pics from India, Canada, UK, Philippines, Hong Kong, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Jamaica and the USA (click on the “Around the World in 100 Bookshelves” widget or here to see all the photos submitted to date).
Whether your child has too many or too few, in 
shelves or piles, tidy or scattered on the floor, we would love it if you could send us a photo of their books! Email the photo in .jpg format along with your child’s first name, age, city and country, to corinne(at)papertigers(dot)org and we’ll post the photo here on our blog. If you have a kidlit blog please let us know and we will include that link too. Don’t worry about capturing the whole bookshelf/book collection in the photo. A partial image, along with a reading-related anecdote and/or a few lines describing the bookshelf’s content, should be enough to help us connect across languages and cultures. We hope to feature bookshelves from all over, so please help us spread the word!
Bookshelf #23:
Araba
22 years old
Mandeville, Jamaica to Spokane, WA, USA
When I learned of the Paper Tigers “Around the World in 100 Bookshelves” project, I had to submit a photo of my favorite childhood bookshelf! Not only do the books reflect storytelling traditions from countries all over the world, but the bookshelf itself has a globetrotting past. It was handpainted by a Jamaican artist, using images and Adinkra symbols from Ghana (my family’s home), and traveled with me all the way to Spokane, WA, USA, where it still resides. Nowadays, it holds beloved stories from picture books to novels, reminding me how fortunate I am to have grown up with a good read always at hand!
Submitted by: Rachel Phillips, currently working with Mmofra Foundation in Ghana, Africa
For details on how to submit a photo of your child’s bookshelf to our Around the World in 100 Bookshelves, click here.
Bookshelf #22:
Vignesh
3 years old
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
I would like to share my son’s bookshelf for your series ‘Around the World in 100 Bookshelves’. My son Vignesh will turn 4 this Sep. I introduced Vignesh to the world of books when he turned 1 yr.
We started off with pictorial books about animals, colours & shapes and nursery rhymes. And graduated to mazes, puzzles, short stories of Birbal, Mulla Nasruddin, Panchatantra, Tenali rama (Indian folklore), Bambi, but the current flavor is Dora & Billy Goat Gruff!!! He is totally enamoured with books about the seven wonders of the world, cars and machines.
I hope he sustains the interest in the years to come.
Submitted by: Supriya
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Bookshelf #20:
Tanu
10 years old
Maryland, USA
This is my 10 year old daughter’s bookshelf. These are just few of them. She is a voracious reader and had been introduced into reading from her very early years. Apart from bringing in tons of books from the neighbourhood library , she has her books lying all around the house. Some could be found lying in piles behind her bed, a portion of a corner of the couch, bathroom, you name it and she has her books there. This is probably the neatest spot of her collection.
She has transcended from the usual Judy Moody and Ramona into more matured levels of reading. Reader’s Digest, National Geographic, and mythologies are turning into some of her favourites these days. Here is a glimpse of her favourite corner….her bookland.
Submitted by: Tanu’s Mom
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Bookshelf #19
The Brat and the Bean
6 years old and 4 years old
Guragon, India
I am a blogger from India and felt like sharing my childrens’ bookshelves with you. They love reading and I love reading to them. I’ve been gifted a lovely globe by a friend and it is always handy to point out spots when we’re reading a story about a particular country. I am very particular about tidying up their book racks once a fortnight or so and my husband finds it hilarious that I “waste” a perfectly good Sunday morning doing this. Ironically, he’s begun to devote his Sunday morning to helping me out and enjoys it when the kids discover a long-forgotten book at the bottom of the heap. At which point the three of them take themselves off to the bed to read. I don’t mind continuing to tidy up by myself. It’s worth it to just listen to the three of murmuring and turning pages.
My children are referred to as the Brat and the Bean on my blog and I’d prefer to keep it that way. My son, known as The Brat is 6 and far from a brat – a gentle, animal loving, peace loving child. The excitable Bean is my 4 year old daughter who believes that you don’t enter a room so much as make an entrance. We live in Gurgaon (India), part of the NCR or the National Capital Region, that includes National Capital territory of Delhi and its adjoining urban areas.
Submitted by: The Mad Momma. (The Mad Momma is also a contributor to Saffron Tree, a potpourri of book reviews and literary resources for children for a lifelong love of reading.)
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Bookshelf #16:
Anushka
5 yrs old
Bangalore, India
As you can see we are not very neat with the way the books are organized, but they are broadly classified into Indian tales, Nonsense verse and tales from the US, Pop ups and so on. And there is more than meets the eye since the shelf is deep enough to house a second stack of books behind as well…..
Anushka when she was about 3, had an imaginary friend Gunnu Kishore and the red ‘post’ box which is a tribute to that phase, also holds books and some random stuff that is dear to her. Anushka’s favourite books right now are Too Many Bananas (Pratham ) and Chika Chika Boom Boom.
It is wonderful to watch her take sure steps into reading by herself. And she even tries to read aloud board books to her baby sister!
Submitted by: Artnavy, Contributor at Saffron Tree
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Bookshelf #15:
Finlay
Burley-in-Wharfedale, United Kingdom
Attached is a photo of one of my little boy’s bookcases. Finlay loves books. I originally had his books stored in a traditional bookcase but found he pulled them all out on the floor looking for the ‘perfect’ book. Having seen the big book bunkers at children’s libraries I realised that toddlers select books to read by looking at their covers, so I went to the supermarket and picked up a banana crate and stored his books, forward-facing, in there. I realised there was a gap in the market for an actual product that fulfilled that function, so I researched, developed and last month launched a product -bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox – which is available for sale in the UK at www.bigbooklittlebookcardboardbox.co.uk
Submitted by: Frances
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Bookshelf #11:
Anav and Kanva
4 year old and 2 years old
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
This used to be the place for the gods & slowly got replaced by books
as the 2 little ones took over. They have a mixture of Indian &
western books; English till now. The books area is just a foot above
the ground & it gives them a chance to squat on the floor while
reading ;o)
Submitted by: Ranjini
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Last weekend The Vancouver Sun newspaper published an interesting article entitled “What do kids love most? Their parents reading to them.” Nick Vinocur reported on the results from a recent study that surveyed 500 children aged three to eight in Britain and found that half of the children said story time was their favorite pastime with their parents! Almost two-thirds of the children polled said they wanted their parents to spend more time reading to them before bed and 82% said reading a story with their parents helped them to sleep better. Storytelling ranked higher than television or video game amongst pastimes for kids and the best storytellers, according to the children surveyed, were mothers who used funny voices to illustrate different characters or made their own special sound effects to keep the story moving.
Child psychologist Richard Woolfson led the study and says:
The results of our research confirm the traditional activity of storytelling continues to be a powerful learning and emotional resource in children’s lives. It can be very difficult for parents to find the time to read with their children, but these moments can help build strong bond and play a vital part in their child’s development.
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I had to include the photo of my husband reading to our son Evan as it is one of my favorites and I still find it hard to believe that my first-born is now 12 years old. How time flies! Such fond memories…
Speaking of photos, don’t forget to submit a photo of your child’s bookshelf for our Around the World in 100 Bookshelves project. You will be automatically entered in a drawing to win a selection of 5 age-appropriate books to add to your little one’s bookshelf! See the sidebar for more details.
Bookshelf #8:
Carlos Miguel
1 year & 7 months old
Manila, Philippines
Being a bibliophile myself, I would like my little boy to grow up around books. I would like to instill in him the passion for reading. Books develop and broaden horizons and for little ones, I believe that starting them young will help them as they grow older. I have taken snapshots of little Miguel’s own book collection. He shares a couple of shelves from me so his books will have their own places in the house. 
Being 1 year and 7 months old, his books range from coloring books to the educational/learning starter books such as the ABCs. The shelf above contains his coloring books, learning the alphabet and numbers books, beginner’s shapes books, board books of trucks, dogs and kittens, illustration books and flashcards with Barney’s photo, too. It also contains the kiddie books we bought from our MV Doulos trip.
This middle shelf contains his other mini board books and some glitter books. He also has some books featuring Winnie D Pooh and friends.
The bottom shelf contains his I Wonder Why books, a gift from his aunt. Also, it houses some baby-kiddie books meant for my reading.
As a mom, I am proud to say that he can now fully recite the ABC, count 1-15, recognize shapes!
Submitted by: Frances
http://ivan-ulrich.blogspot.com
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Bookshelf #7:
Clarke
4 yrs. old
Los Angeles, CA, USA
My husband built and painted this bookshelf to Clarke’s specifications. It had to “look like a zebra.” Currently, Clarke especially enjoys reading Mo Willems’s Elephant & Piggie series, as well as the Dr. Seuss “Beginner Books.”
Submitted by: Candace
http://www.bookbookerbookest.blogspot.com
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Bookshelf #6:
Albin
12 yrs. old
Stockholm, Sweden
This bookshelf belongs to Albin, who is 12 years old. As you can see, Japanese manga is a favourite… But also Cressida Cowell, Cornelia Funke and J.K. Rowling, as well as Swedish writers like Niklas Krog. Since I work in a library I don’t buy a lot of books for my children - we borrow them at the library instead. When I asked him which book he likes the best he thought about it quite a while and then said it was Airman by Eoin Colfer.
Submitted by: Anna G. Chen
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Bookshelf #5:
Pranav
6 yrs. old
Bangalore, India
Submitted by: Anandhi Yagnaraman
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Cherie
3 1/2 yrs
Delhi, India
Here is our bookshelf. It’s actually not a shelf, but a couple of drawers salvaged from a termite- ridden dresser, lined up on the floor for easy access. We used to have them in a cabinet, but our last major haul was temporarily piled up here, while we played at having a book fair at our house. I found that this was much easier to use and encouraged more reading, as it was actually in the playing area, so I let it be, and arranged a little sitting space around it. As you see, we started painting them, and then the project got shelved The background shows the latest artwork, and a couple of Rajasthani puppets we picked up recently. And that is my little one ‘reading’ a favourite (on account of its various pull-out sections).
The books we have, with a few exceptions, are totally dependent on what was available at the book fairs we attended last year, and at bargains, rather than our choice. But they all have nice pics to look at, so that is alright. Mostly fiction, a few small encyclopedias and even fewer science books. Of course I want more of these books, but now I am also looking for biographies, science, math and discovery/invention books.
Submitted by:
Swati
http://hellonetbaby.blogspot.com
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