Dewi Blog

From the classroom

Stories from teachers actually running a classroom library.

Real experiences, real numbers, no marketing gloss — written by a Grade 6 teacher who built Dewi because he needed it himself.

A teacher reading aloud from a book to a group of students seated on the classroom floor
Founder story

I Had No Idea How Many Books Were In My Classroom Library. It Was 299 — And I'd Bought Duplicates.

A real accounting of what happens when you finally count a classroom library you've built up for a decade — the genre gaps you can't see, the duplicate purchases, and the inexpensive setup that fixed it.

July 26, 2026