Julia Donaldson in India, Interaction with educators, New Delhi ( 19 January 2018)
Scholastic India organised a FABULOUS interaction led by Julia Donaldson’s with 
educators, teachers and librarians at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was a technically perfect masterclass on how storytelling and picturebooks can be employed imaginatively in classrooms, with minimal or NO props, involving all the children, with a little bit of rhythm, song and dance, opening a world of possibilities!
Neeraj Jain, MD, Scholastic India standing in front of a display of Julia Donaldson’s books
Julia Donaldson spoke of her journey from a musician/songwriter making an unexpected foracy in to the world of books and how very fortuitous it turned out. She spoke of her collaboration with Axel Scheffler and other illustrators. She performed some of her better known stories such as Gruffalo transforming the room of schoolteachers into little children as they sang along with her! She was accompanied on the guitar by her husband Malcolm and a supporting cast that included her publishers from UK and India.
A magical morning!
19 January 2018
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