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Introduce your kids to Singapore books by authors and illustrators such as (clockwise from left) Chloe Chang, Quek Hong Shin, and Low Lai Chow. SINGAPORE – The next time you and your kids go to a bookstore, check out the books by home-grown authors and illustrators. Then, buy some home and bond over them.

From time to time, the local creatives come together with publishers and various organisations, such as the National Arts Council, to inspire more readers to pick up Singapore literature. The latest initiative is the inaugural Singapore Children’s Book Festival from June 21 to 23. Over the weekend, there were storytelling sessions by authors, arts workshops inspired by their books, a gallery showcasing illustrations and a book fair.



It was co-organised by the Singapore Book Publishers Association and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa), University of the Arts Singapore. The festival aims to encourage children to develop a lifelong passion for reading and storytelling through their engagement with local children’s literature, says Singapore Book Publishers Association president Edmund Wee, 72. He is also the founder of publisher Epigram Books.

He says: “Parents and educators in Singapore are increasingly cognisant of the need to buy and read local stories to their children and pupils. “Yet, they remain largely ignorant of what is being published because children’s books get so little media coverage, in part due to their non-literary status. “Even more alarming i.

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