Recently, I was pleased to discover a number of Hong Kong-themed children's books for my little ones. It was only when Jackie Junko appeared on my radar that I realised that my children's screen...
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7 Jan 2013
Lorence Johnston wants me to smell an old book. He tilts a hefty brown tome at least 30cm long with the binding facing away and gently flips the pages towards me. I expect a mustiness but I get a...
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11 Mar 2012
I recently attended a read-aloud training workshop in a community centre on the other side of town, where the participants were primarily mothers from low-income families. A...
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When Hong Kong author Sarah Brennan sits down to write one of her captivating children's books, she imagines rascally rabbits that defy evil emperors, hungry dragons that eat children, or plump...
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As book lovers, Patrick Yip and Joey Law were eager to share the joy of reading when their first-born was old enough. However, to their dismay, they found that choices of good quality and...
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7 Jan 2009
Hong Kong's urban jungle may seem an unlikely setting for fairy tales, but for one picture-book author it's an ideal backdrop against which to encourage children to read.
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Here's a chance for young writers and painters to get their works published.
Under the Young Storyteller campaign, organised by SCMP Book Publishing Limited, six books created by...
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It is like having the Man Booker Prize winner, a Nobel Laureate in Literature and Dan Brown all in one room, say the organisers of this year's Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival of...
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Well-known children's author Linda Newbery encourages those who are scared to put pen to paper to start writing about their experiences.
Newbery will conduct a fun, interactive...
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THE PILE OF WRITING on Wong Kit-ching's desk worried her. Page after page was filled with negative emotion - jealousy, fighting, anger and retribution. These were not the themes she had expected...
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The pile of writing on Wong Kit-ching's desk worried her. Page after page was filled with negative emotion jealousy, fighting, anger and retribution. These were not the themes she had expected...
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The Ocean Of Stories: Join Theatre du Pif on a journey to the mythical Ocean of Stories, where children's stories, folk tales and classic dramas are told in a lively and imaginative way (in...
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