Milk Kids Book Club: Saturday 24 March

The MILK Kids’ Book Club meets every month for a fun literary activity designed to entertain young minds and encourage an interest in reading and books in younger children.  Well known children’s stories are shared and discussed with the help of a book reading by the author/a known local literary figure/ a passionate story teller.  The Milk book reading sessions focuses on providing an interactive experience with emphasis to the selected authors’ story, its messages, illustrations and themes.  It is also followed by an art and craft activity that reinforces the theme or characters of the story.

This March, the MILK Kids’ Book Club will meet on Saturday, 24 March from 10:30a.m. to 12 noon at the store premises located at 12, Barnes Place, Colombo 7.  

 March is the month of the well-loved Dr Seuss’s birthday (2 March 1904) so join in the fun as we read ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and have a morning of creative activities!



This is the classic Dr Seuss book that every child should have the joy of reading and having read to them.

When Sally and her brother are left alone, they think they’re in for a dull day – until the Cat in the Hat steps in on the mat, bringing with him mayhem and madness!

With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller!

Theodor Seuss Geisel liked to say that he adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” because he was saving his real name for the Great American Novel he would one day write. As a magazine cartoonist, he began signing his work under the mock-scholarly title of “Dr. Theophrastus Seuss” in 1927. He later shortened that to ‘Dr. Seuss’ and in acquiring his professional pseudonym, he also gained a new pronunciation. Most people pronounce the name Soose, and not Zoice, as his Bavarian family did.  And that’s how Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss.

Reader: Dilrukshi Fonseka, currently works for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has been involved in acting, singing and public speaking since she was a child and still is, whenever time permits. She has an active five year-old and is a big believer in reading and story-telling to kids.

Art and Craft Activities: The activities are conducted by Fazna Farook and Najla Yehiya, who both have many years experience in teaching art to children at the ‘Cora Abraham Art Classes’ and has also qualified from the professional Art Teacher Training programme from the above establishment. Fazna and Najla are both passionate about nurturing creativity through fun art activities.

This workshop is suitable for kids from four to seven years. For further details or to reserve a place for your child please call 2696286.  A fee of SLRs. 750 will be charged per child to cover the morning’s activities, materials and a healthy snack that is provided.