The tiny tots of the city had a lot of fun with different literature genres on Saturday at Children’s Literary Fest. The fest began with Japanese Folk Tales that were enjoyed by the tiny tots of the city.
The Children’s Literature Festival began at Swami Vivekananda Library here on Saturday.
The two day fest is being organised in three categories. On the first day as many as 200 kids registered for the fest.
Three events were organised in the library on Saturday. The first event was of Japanese folk tales.
This event was for kids from 4 to 6 years. In its first phase, children were pronounced Japan’s Folk Tail by wearing kimono (traditional garment of Japan).
At the beginning of the event, the founder of Stories and Beyond, Nidul Agrawal gave interesting information to the children, then Amita told the story of Japan to the children and asked them interesting questions as to what is continent of Japan, which other countries came in this continent.
By what name is Japan’s people called Japan? After this, the children were exposed to Japanese words like Arigato (Blessed), Sionara (Woman).
In the second part of the event, Prerna Agarwal informed the children of Japanese Arts and Crafts. In this, Japan’s wings were decorated with the children, and after that, children came from Bhopal in the student exchange program from Japan, Japanese students came and made Japanese folk dance which children did very well. The third part of the event was about comics and superheroes.
This event was from 11 years to adults.
This was for everyone who loves comics and superheroes. It was operated by Bhaskarji. In this, he told children about DC Comics’s curators and Marvell curators by an interesting presentation.
Swami Vivekananda Library Manager Yatish Bhatele said that keeping in mind the growing distance from books in children, Together with Swami Vivekananda Library, Stories and Beyond, organized a children’s Literary Festival of children.
In this age of gadgets, maintaining children’s reading habit has become a challenge and in this library can play an important role.