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Reading stories is the best way for children to improve their language skills, says a children's author from New Zealand.

Joy Cowley has written 54 children's novels and picture books and more than 550 early-reading books for schools.

She has also written six novels and two collections of short stories for adults.

Cowley was in Hong Kong at the invitation of the Hong Kong Council of Early Childhood Education and Services to help encourage locals to write stories from memories of their childhood.

The project was funded by the Quality Education Fund.

Having edited stories from more than 90 people who attended a writing workshop, Cowley gained an overview of local writing techniques.

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