The Reading Nook

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Hello Hello! It's Toddler Tuesday!



We're meeting this TUESDAY to bring you a Reading Nook favorite your tot will be absolutely LOVE!

🌟 Perfect for - 2 - 4 year olds
🌟 Meets 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
🌟 📍Ferozsons Library and Cultural Complex, DHA
🌟 Great for all those little ones who can't sit still!

Wondering what you'll find at the bookclub? Here's a list of all things fun!

🌟 1 dedicated sensory station
🌟 2 Play based activities: learn through play
🌟 Task based learning
🌟 A fabulous Reading Nook readaloud
🌟 A super creative mom and tot follow up activity!

And not just this, our activities are especially designed to work towards developing motor skills, hand eye coordination, concentration, language, sensory and social skills!



DM or WhatsApp at 0322-4073238. Slots are limited and handed on a first serve basis! We're offering a 30 % discount to all those who join us for the first time and 30% Group Discounts to all those who join in with a friend!


Happy Reading and See you on Tuesday! 😊

☀️☀️Summer Clubs are here! ☀️☀️

It's a bright sunny summer camp!


Posting our list of summer clubs here on popular demand. Before I'm flooded, here's our FAQs answered for your convenience.

▪︎ Clubs are weekly and in person. We meet once a week.

▪︎ Clubs are not free of charge.

▪︎ Students need to buy the book of the month. We don't sell but we can help you find them.

▪︎ For Club Readaloud, having the book is not compulsory, though it is recommended for reinforcement.

▪︎ Clubs are drop-off. For younger children who aren't comfortable, we encourage parents to stay till the child is settled.

▪︎Clubs are charged per month.

▪︎What do we do? Clubs are designed to work on developing independent reading routines, work on vocabulary and language acquisition, critical thinking, public speaking and other things. Club activities vary according to the theme of the book and the areas of focus. The idea is for students to not simply read but experience and live the books they are reading

▪︎ It's tons of fun. Don't believe us? Sign up and find out!



To register, send in DM or a WhatsApp. Clubs start June 4th.

My most favourite bookclub is back! Perfect for those learning to read independently, Club Readaloud is not only aimed at getting our children to enjoy independent reading but also benefit from a holistic group reading experience.



These four sessions have been carefully planned to work on students' critical thinking and ability to interpret reading material. My aim with this bookclub is to train my wonderful little readers to go beyond the pages, read between the lines and search for nuances that the average reader reads through.


I train my little readers to find something new everytime they read an old book and this is the one skill that has helped me retain and cherish my love for literature over the years. It is never about how fast or how advanced your reading is, it is always about how in depth and critical your reading experience is.


Our bookclubs are a two way process that help us learn with and from each other. We work on vocabulary and language skills through a variety of targeted learning approaches and it really is great fun!


If you're looking for a space for your child where they can learn and explore themselves and their creative abilities, bring them in for this fantastic bookclub. We read, explore and interpret and learn tenfold. We also dress up, play games and indulge in performing arts but those are just the little surprises to keep our readers on their toes!


To join the club, send in a DM and register online. Limited seats available.

Who: 4 - 6 year olds
When: Sundays at 3:30pm
Where: DHA, Phase 5, Lahore.

Here's what happened!


Loved Loved Loved our low key meet up after nearly two years!


We talked , shared recommendations and spoke of our experience with some weird, notorious books. It was a blast and I feel like I've come back feeling truly rejuvenated!


Here's letting you know we'll be out and about town with our books so if you happen to come across a group of girls raving about fictitious characters, just know you're absolutely invited!


To books and better times!


And all those who stuck by, thank you for being there and thank you for making the effort. I truly appreciate it.


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🌻 🌻 🌻 Spring Time! 🌻 🌻 🌻


My second round of Spring Clubs are here! I've been loving having my budding readers over at the new library and the energy has just been incredible! Gearing up for round 2 now so If you've missed us, rush over!



To register, send in DM or a WhatsApp. Clubs start this Saturday.



PS: More clubs for the little ones to follow suit.

First writeup of the year and I'm utterly sorry for the disappointment I offer. This isn't a review, it's a rant, partly about the book that you see and partly of my own inadequacy. Ever felt like liking a book real bad? Like you picked up something because you thought this would blow you away?


With this one, I waited. I waited like a good little schoolgirl who was waiting to be asked to prom' I gave it ample time to seduce me, or even drag me along but I'm afraid though I was stood up here, big time. To find out how and why, or perhaps even share your own disappointment with this or another book you were really keen to enjoy, join and myself tomorrow via Zoom!


For details Swipe ➡️ and in the comments below, let us in on some of the books that left you flabbergasted, or something similar. You'll be helping lots of readers steer clear of dead ends.


Don't forget to join in tomorrow 6pm India and 5:30pm PST. Grab your coffees and whine with us! (Or not)😉


PS: Instagram now helps you set a reminder through my post. DO IT!

☆ ☆ W E ' R E ▪︎ B A C K ! ☆ ☆



🥳Our Little Reader's Club has always been a hit and ever since I've started working on resuming the physical bookclubs, I was sure that this club was going to be the first in line. I've missed my little readers So SO much!

Online learning has it's days but nothing beats the energy of a room full of excited little readers squealing with joy as you tickle their imaginations with stories of pirates, gnomes, fairies and many times extraordinarily ordinary people.



If you want your kid to develop a hobby that will help them discover their intellectual and academic potential, there is nothing better than reading! Reading channelizes their thoughts and energies to find greater meaning and purpose and stimulates them like no other fodder.


Our little readers program is focused on building a strong relationship with literature in early years through activity and play based sessions that revolve around building and sharpening:

A. Critical thinking
B. Evaluative and assessment skills
C. Public Speaking
D. Vocabulary strengthening


* Registrations are now open for Club 3: The Little Readers' Alliance ( ages 5 - 7) which starts on November 21st, 2021.
* Meet ups are weekly, Every Sunday, 3: 3: 30 pm - 4:30pm
* Charges: Rs. 6,000/child for 4 weeks
* All COVID SOPs will be followed. Parents will be required to share vaccination certificates and masks are mandatory.

📱For information and registrations, send in a DM or WhatsApp at 0322-4073238

😊 Also, Swipe 》for smiles!





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▪︎▪︎ A R O U N D ▪︎ T H E ▪︎ W O R L D ▪︎ R E A D A T H O N ▪︎ ▪︎


Did you know of this too good to be true Around The World Readathon that .and.babes and myself are hosting?


Every month, my fantastic friends from the bookstagram community sit down to discuss works of fiction from different countries around the world and this month, I'm proud to say, they're stopping over in Pakistan 🇵🇰 for this much acclaimed debut by the lovely


Heard of it? Well, here's the blurb:


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"Set in Lahore, This House of Clay and Water explores the lives of two women. Nida, intelligent and lonely, has married into an affluent political family and is desperately searching for some meaning in her existence; and impulsive, lovely Sasha, from the ordinary middle-class, whose longing for designer labels and upmarket places is so frantic that she willingly consorts with rich men who can provide them. Nida and Sasha meet at the famous Daata Sahib dargah and connect-their need to understand why their worlds feel so alien and empty, bringing them together.

On her frequent visits to the dargah, Nida meets the gentle, flute-playing hijra Bhanggi, who sits under a bargadh tree and yearns for acceptance and affection, but is invariably shunned. A friendship-fragile, tentative and tender-develops between the two, both exiles within their own lives; but it flies in the face of all convention and cannot be allowed.

Faiqa Mansab's accomplished and dazzling debut novel explores the themes of love, betrayal and loss in the complex, changing world of today's Pakistan." 

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So glad to be finally reading this and I'm particularly intrigued by the fact that the novel seeks to explore the lives of the transgender community that make a visible part of our culture and population but seem to be perpetually underrepresented (or stereotyped) in mainstream media. Care to join us and meet some booknerds over zoom? Just grab your copy from and DM me to join the readalong.


PS: Follow these bookclubs already!