The Swami Vivekananda Library was jam-packed on Sunday, marking the closure of two day Children’s literary fest. Three sessions were organised on the second day of the fest.
As many as 190 tiny tots were present during the fest. At the beginning of the first session Roald Dahl Revolting Rims event was held. Yasmin Anwar made the children aware of the story of Jack and the Bean Stock. After that, she told the children interesting stories related to the Roald Dahl. After that, she read the children Jack and the Bean Stock.
The children learned to name their names according to the letters of the Roald Dahal books, such as the name of the Aradhya Mishra will be called The Schubibling Bootboggler, Abir Arora will be The Scoibbing Bean and finally the children in this session have a lot of fun. This is called Global Funk.
In the second session "Poetry for the Young" children were told to write poetry. Rekha Singh read William Blake's The Little Black Boy and explained its meaning. She told the children that to write the poems of good, they should keep an eye on their activities and then write free word poems.
At the end of the session four children recited their poems. After this, Reddy Chacha performed puppet and magic show by the children. After the Poem session, the children enjoyed it very much.
In the third session, ‘The Hobbit’, Stories and Beckey founder Nidhi Agrawal enacted The Hobbit’s characters. She gave its interesting information about the Hobbit to children as the book is written by JRR Tolkien, whose series is named Lord of the Rings. For this, he also invented one of his own languages. This language was named Ran and Alvish.
Swami Vivekananda Library Manager Yatish Bhatele said that the main objective of this two-day Children's Literature Festival of Swami Vivekananda Library and Stories and Beyond was to promote the habit of reading books while living in Youth and this event was successful in fulfilling this objective.