Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo– A Children’s literature festival

• 45 authors and performers from 7 countries to conduct story-telling sessions for children
• Exciting activity workshops for children

Aviva Life Insurance launched the popular children’s literature festival – Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo on 28th November, 09 at Sanskriti Anandgram, on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon highway. This 2-day exciting extravaganza organised workshops for kids on topics like mathematics, sketching cartoons, building alien worlds, recycling paper, puppet shows along with storytelling sessions and more. Also, there were exhilarating performances by internationally renowned artists Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain, and a doodle wall was created for people to showcase their creativity. To be a part of “Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo”, all one had to do was simply register on the website for free.

After the success of the event, Mr. Vishal Gupta, Director Marketing, Aviva India, said, “At Aviva, we believe that ‘Education is Insurance’ and through the ‘Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo’, we wanted to encourage the reading habit among young children.”

Mr M. Venkatesh, Co-organizer of Bookaroo and partner, Eureka Bookstore added, “This is the second year for the children’s literature festival.  Aviva Young Scholar Bookaroo is more than a story-telling session and as the children got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interact with their favourite authors, and well-loved children’s characters – like Horrid Henry and Elmer the Elephant. We also had a special display of children’s books by Eureka, where one could buy or browse and have their books signed by the authors.”

For more details visit:  http://www.bookaro.in/programme.htm