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Adeline Foo 's best known series is “The Diary of Amos Lee”. Reenita Malhotra Hora asks her about why did she start to write Amos Lee and how has she been involved in the adaption of her book in the TV series.
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This diary began as Mum’s New Year’s resolution to get me to write. She told me to write when I am doing my big business. “Five to eight minutes max!” she said. “I don’t want you to develop piles!” And so my writing in the bathroom began. My entries started with the boring old stuff…then Mum got this new job as a writer and, following her around, I...
Catergories: Book
Bright and talented, but at odds with her parents, 14-year-old Evelyn Lau ran away to spend the next two years submerged in drugs, prostitution and despair on the streets of Vancouver. The journals she kept provide an account of life on the streets for a young girl.
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Evelyn Lau tells Sarah Passmore about her book.
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Reenita Malhotra Hora is joined by Eliza Teoh to talk about the character "Ellie Belly" and to read an extract of her book.
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http://www.youngreadersfestival.org.hk/
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Andrew Dembina spoke to one of the organisers – Douglas Kerr of Hong Kong University, the festival’s board director – for a low-down on the event. And secondary school English teacher, Alison Marriott of Singapore International School tells us how her students will take an active part in the festival, including workshops with a visiting author.
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In the True to Life Book series the animals talk to children about where they live, what they eat, and how the family lives together. Jan Latta’s photographs tell the story in pictures, and there are facts and maps at the back of the books.
In 2007 Jan was asked by the ABC to write Diary of a Wildlife Photographer. This is a journal of 14 years of her adventures...
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Fiona Walsh thought her family’s secrets would follow her to her grave, but when her diary is found by a young postman, Niall, the truth about her untimely demise—and that of her sister and aunt—begins to see the light of day. It’s the most tragic love story he’s ever heard.
Niall soon becomes enveloped by the mystery surrounding Jim—an itinerant...
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Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—Oyeyemi’s keys not only unlock elements of her characters’ lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In “Books and Roses” one special key...
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"Rewilded" tells the story of the South China Tiger, and of perhaps the most audacious conservation project of recent times. This English-Chinese bilingual book is Ms. Quan's personal account of the ‘rewilding’ project she established, which aims to return zoo-born South China tigers back to China’s wild. Her moving and engaging diary-style entries are...
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