AFCC 2017 - 10% off

Date: 17 — 21 MAY 2017
Venue: NLB, Victoria Road Singapore

The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is an annual festival in Singapore that celebrates and promotes the creation and appreciation of children’s books and content, with a focus on Asian themes.  Indonesia is the country of focus for this year.  ISLN members are offered a 10% discount.

This year the following ISLN members are taking part:

Ben Farr
20 May, 9am – 10am.

[PANEL] Literacy Bites: Practices in Schools
Looking at four schools, St James’ Church Kindergarten, the Green School Bali, Sarada Kindergarten and Kumon, discuss about literacy practices adopted by their schools and efforts to help children improve their grasp of languages.

Katie Day
17 May, 4.45pm – 6.00pm:
Authors Discussion: Who Gets to Write Asian Stories?
Speakers: Wai Chim, Paolo Fabregas, Holly Thompson, Heidi Shamsuddin


21 May, 11.15am – 12.15pm:
Books from Around the World that Build Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Bridges (and Why Teachers Ought to Know Them) --
Myra Garces-Bacsal, Sarinajit Kaur

Sarah Mounsey

Elaine Fong
21 May 2017 (Sun) 11:15am – 12:15pm
A Mammoth Task: Encouraging Reading in the Digital Age
Elaine will go over the key points she uses as a teacher librarian to encourage reading among students. She will also highlight the pitfalls and challenges that parents should be aware of. This session will provide anecdotal and research based strategies on how to encourage reading.
Part of Parents Forum, Preschool & Primary Teachers Congress

Nadine Bailey
20 May 2017 (Sat) 9:00am – 10:00am
Blokes with Books: Can Social Belonging Impact on Reading Motivation and Skill for Young Boys?
For the past 1 and a half years, something special has been happening at a school campus in Singapore. Boys aged 8-12 are arguing about whose turn it is to read a desired book and rushing to join a book club that’s so full, it’s not taking any more members. How did this happen? More importantly, how can you recreate the magic in your school? Nadine will spill the beans at this session.
Part of Preschool & Primary Teachers Congress

18 May 2017 (Thu) 10:30am – 11:30am
[PANEL] Books Teachers Wish Authors Would Write
Rilla Melati (Director, Creative Content Development, Mini Monsters Limited), Myra Garces-Bacsal (Educator, Reviewer, Blogger), Nadine Bailey (Teacher librarian, Canadian International School)
Creators can step into the shoes of a teacher for one hour and learn what makes a book a treasured find. From beautiful illustrations to didactic language, speakers discuss their views on relevant and useful books children need and love.
Part of Writers & Illustrators Conference

You may also be interested in the talk of Dr. Myra Bacsal Books from Around the World that Build Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Bridges (And Why Teachers Ought to Know Them)

There is a Writers and Illustrators conference, Teachers' Congress, Parents' Forum and Cross Platform Summit - so let your teachers and parents know too.

LKSW 2017 & Speed Dating Picture Books from around the world

A reminder that Barb and I are closing registration at the end of the week for the Feb 17/18 Librarians' Knowledge Sharing Workshop 2017, being held at UWCSEA East.   Go to http://research.uwcsea.edu.sg/lksw2017 for registration details.

Note that all our network members are invited to join us for any of the social events (even if you don't register for the conference itself).  Details of the social event offerings are here:  http://research.uwcsea.edu.sg/lksw2017/socialevents
where there is a Google Form to fill out to let us know if you want to come along.
 

We have about 70 people attending the conference, plus Dianne McKenzie and Brad Tyrrell, our workshop/keynote speakers.

Note that Dr. Myra Garces-Bacsal, from the National Institute of Education here in Singapore and author of the "Gathering Books" blog, is also going to present.  Her session will be on "Speed Dating: Picture Books from around the world - Expanding the Socio-Emotional Learning (SEL) bookshelf" -- which will be similar to the talk on her ongoing "Social-Emotional Learning Project" which she gave at Tanglin last November.  For those of you who enjoyed that, it will be another chance to look at many of the picture books she has collected.

You can browse Myra's collection online as her group has cataloged all the picture books using LibraryThing.  See her lists and tags here:  https://www.librarything.com/catalog/GatheringBooks/allcollections

Children's Literature Talk -- by Dr. Myra Garces-Bacsal et al - Nov 3 - Tanglin Trust School

A reminder that we're all invited to a talk on multicultural picturebooks by a team of researchers, lead by Myra Garces-Bascal from NIE (National Institute of Education), on November 3, 2016, at 4:30pm in the Senior Library at Tanglin Trust School.

You may be familiar with Myra through her children's literature blog -- Gathering Books.  

Wine and nibbles will follow the talk.  RSVP by October 1st via this link:  https://goo.gl/forms/KQmDYBnfo4Wongp63

Creating Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Bridges through Multicultural Picturebooks

Asst/Prof Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal

Asst/Prof Ruanni Tupas

Mdm Sarinajit Kaur

Children’s books keep alive a sense of nationality; but they also keep alive a sense of humanity. They describe their native land lovingly, but they also describe faraway lands where unknown brothers live. They understand the essential quality of their own race; but each of them is a messenger that goes beyond mountains and rivers, beyond the seas, to the very ends of the world in search of new friendships. Every country gives and every country receives, - innumerable are the exchanges, - and so it comes about that in our first impressionable years the universal republic of childhood is born. – Paul Hazard

The power of children’s books to foster identity (Botelho and Rudman, 2009) and self-awareness (Lysaker and Tonge, 2013), to build empathy (Nikolajeva, 2012) and resilience (Lukens, Smith, & Coffel, 2013) have been well documented in research studies. Multicultural picturebooks, are especially powerful, as they serve as mirrors allowing young people to see themselves reflected in books that they read; and they also serve as windows to worlds that young readers may be unfamiliar with, allowing them to “participate emotionally in ways that may ultimately change the way we see ourselves and the society in which we live” (Gates & Mark, 2006, p. 2). This kind of affective participation through literature is what makes multicultural picturebooks the perfect vehicle to scaffold the teaching of social and emotional learning competencies that are essential to becoming more reflective and sensitive human beings. This presentation is a celebration of titles from around the world that may serve as bridges to humanity, kindness, and compassion – books that allow young readers to view the world a bit differently, and empower them to be more involved in the community and the larger world that they are a part of.

 

This talk is a result of a 2015-2017 project at NIE that Myra is leading -- "Reading Lives and Practices of Singapore Teachers and the Use of Multicultural Children's Literature to promote Socio-emotional Learning."  

Contact Ben Farr at Tanglin for more information:  Benjamin.FARR@tts.edu.sg

From Holly Thompson: free guide to her latest verse novel, The Language Inside

Hello Librarians,

I'm happy to announce the Discussion, Writing, Activity and Service Guide for my YA verse novel The Language Inside (Delacorte/Random House 2013). You can download this extensive Guide HERE.  Created for classrooms, book groups, readers and writers, included in the guide are discussion questions, essay topics, poetry prompts, extension activities and service project ideas.  

Here is my blog announcement about the guide, and here is The Language Inside page of my website. Here is a post about Lowell, Monkey Dance and the Southeast Asian Water Festival, here is a post about Julia Tavalaro and Inspiration for The Language Inside, and here is a recent  PoetryFriday interview of me about The Language Inside.

I hope you enjoy The Language Inside and this new Guide. 

As always, I am available for school visits.

All the best,

Holly Thompson

hatbooks@gmail.com

The world through picture books

The World through Picture Books is an on-going initiative of the International Federation of Library Associations. Participating countries have each contributed ten favourite picture books to produce a wonderfully international and diverse catalogue.
Included are familiar favourites from Singapore, the U.K., Germany, France, the U.S.A. 36 countries in all are represented.
This catalogue is a delight to browse and an excellent source of ideas to enrich our mother tongue/world literature collections.
A reminder that Select Books is an Asian book specialist here in Singapore.

February 1-3: Children's Lit Conference @SAS

You'll hear more about this from Nancy Johnson at next week's meeting, but here is a promotional slideshow about the Children's Literature Conference at SAS, February 1 - 3, 2013.

Keep the date: 2013 Children's / Young Adult Literature Conference - this February in Singapore

When: Feb. 1-3, 2013

(Friday, Meet the Author Reception; Saturday, Conference; Sunday, Writing and Illustrating Workshops)

Where: Singapore American School
Intermediate School Theatre

Featuring:

Chris Crutcher    

Author of 11 books (including Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Stotan, Whaletalk, King of the Mild Frontier) written for young adults, with short stories in 12 anthologies. Recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.  [GoodReads] [Author website]

Kadir Nelson  

Awards include: 2008 Caldecott Honor recipient for Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, 2007 Caldecott Honor recipient for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, 2009 Coretta Scott King Award Winner and 2009 Sibert Informational Book Award for We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball .  [GoodReads] [Author website]

Laura Vaccaro Seeger  

Illustrator/Author of 15 picture books including Green, The Hidden Alphabet, and Dog and Bear.  Awards include: 2008 Caldecott Honor and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book for First the Egg, 2009 and Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor for One Boy. [GoodReads] [Author website]

Deborah Wiles 

Author of four novels and two picture books, including Countdown and Love, Ruby Lavender,  Awards include: 2005 National Book Award finalist for Each Little Bird That Sings and the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2004.  [GoodReads] [Author website]

Conference specifics will be available soon at http://sasclc.sas.edu.sg

Questions?  Contact Nancy Johnson @ njohnson@sas.edu.sg

Red Dot 2012-2013 Long Lists Announced

The Red Dot Awards Committee has decided on the Red Dot book long-list for 2012-2013.  We'd love for people to read the books and let us know what they think about them.  An easy way to do that is to add your reviews to your Goodreads account (if you have one).

Click here to see our ISLN Goodreads bookshelves, where the long-lists are identified -- or click on the individual shelf links below.

In August the Committee will meet and discuss the long-list titles -- and will announce the shortlist for 2012-2013 in September.

Early Years

Younger Readers

Older Readers

Mature Readers

APD Singapore distributes Epigram Books, including the new SherMay Loh book

The second book in SherMay Loh's "Archibald" series -- Archibald and the Black Knight's Ring -- will be published in June.   Book launch at Kinokuniya on Sat, 2nd June at 2.00pm

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From APD Singapore:

We are pleased to announce our appointment as the exclusive distributor for Epigram Books Pte Ltd for the ASEAN region with immediate effect for all new titles publishing in April 2012 and beyond. Taking of orders for ALL backlist titles published before April 2012 will begin from 21 May 2012 only. 

An independent publisher based in Singapore, Epigram Books is known for putting together well-designed and thought-provoking titles.

Epigram Books began as a division of the award-winning design firm, Epigram, but registered as a separate entity in July 2011 in order to strengthen its focus on championing local writing.

Epigram Books publishes all manner of fiction--novels, short stories, plays, children's books and some poetry. They have published works by literary pioneers Goh Poh Seng, Stella Kon, Lloyd Fernando and Robert Yeo. Other prominent authors include playwrights Tan Tarn How, Ovidia Yu, Chong Tze Chien, Jean Tay and Haresh Sharma; and award-winning children's authors Adeline Foo and SherMay Loh, who is an international Moonbeam Children's Award winner. 

Epigram Books also reflects Singapore's mad obsession with food by publishing both recipe books and food guides. In 2012, Epigram Books started the Wee Editions imprint to support local designers, photographers and artists through a unique series of compact coffee table books.

You may contact APD at apdacad@apdsing.com should you require more information or assistance. 

LOCAL AUTHOR: Adeline Foo - "The Thing Under My Bed"

Adeline Foo writes to us re a picture book she wrote in 2009 that she feels has not had the attention it deserves, as she was busy promoting Amos Lee when it came out.

See the website of illustrator Chris Martin, who travels through Singapore from time to time, according to Adeline -- so available for possible school visits.

http://www.splatter.biz/

SYNOPSIS:

The Thing Under My Bed

Written by Adeline Foo

Illustrated by Christopher Martin

Buster loves snacking just before bedtime. Take a peek under his bed and you'd find crumbs, discarded wrappers and half-eaten bits of food. One night, Buster hears strange noises from under his bed!

'Grrrllll'… a stomach growls hungrily, 'tsk, tsk, tsk'… fingers scratch impatiently, 'tek-ca-toh, tek-ca-toh, tek-ca-toh'… feet drum menacingly, and 'cssshhh, cssshhh, cssshhh'… a tongue sloshes around looking for food!  Is there a monster under the bed?  Is Buster safe?  Read this story and have a good laugh at what's really making all those dreadful noises!

LOCAL AUTHOR: Daniel Wong & "The Happy Student"

Read below information about a new book and author here in Singapore who is available for author visits.

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From his website:
Daniel Wong graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2011 with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Economics. Born in South Africa, he lived in Hong Kong and Singapore before heading to Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) on a full academic scholarship. Before college, Daniel spent two years in the Singapore military as an infantry battalion manpower officer, and currently holds the rank of First Lieutenant. Daniel is passionate about education and has given numerous talks to students about topics such as goal-setting, time management, college life skills, and developing a personal vision for your life. He also gave a TEDx talk at Duke University entitled Realistic Idealism: Seeing People as People. He writes regularly about topics related to education, career, and personal development at www.daniel-wong.com. 

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Links:

The Happy Student website

Daniel Wong's homepage - Dream Big. Start Small. Act Now.

Daniel's Amazon Author Page

Follow Daniel on Twitter or email him: Daniel@Daniel-Wong.com

APD book promotions for ISLN

Shelly Chua of APD will be attending our AGM on Monday, April 23, and displaying some of the books they are currently promoting. Note that our members get a discount.

a)  Libraries Unlimited & Linworth
b) Books for Thought
c)  Kingfisher
d)  Belair


Libraries Unlimited and Linworth

Specially for ISLN Members  

Less 40% off list price for DIRECT orders 

to APD Singapore Pte Ltd

Well-known and well-regarded throughout the library community, Libraries Unlimited and Linworth share a tradition of publishing in all areas and topics that represent core competencies of librarians, offering titles that are used by librarians during their studies and throughout their professional careers. Libraries Unlimited has long been considered a market leader in textbooks and bibliographic reference for library science. Both Libraries Unlimited and Linworth focus on the work of renowned and highly visible authors who are respected for their experience, expertise, insight into library practice, educator/librarian connections, and literacy. Our Professional Development imprint also includes Teacher Ideas Press, which produces material for teachers that encourages the teacher/librarian partnership.
(Kindly fax your order to 67493552 or email to angela@apdsing.com or stacy@apdsing.com)

 Visit Books for Thoughts – APD’s facebook page which highlights the best of our selections. The post here features inspiring titles ranging from literature, humanities, mathematics, philosophy, art and sports. This is the site for intellectual readers, students. teachers and librarians. 

Kingfisher is an award-winning publisher of non-fiction and early learning books. Known around the world for its informative and engaging reference and early-learning books, Kingfisher also receives widespread acclaim for its classic anthologies for five- to fourteen-year-olds and original picture books for very young children.

We are delighted to offer to the schools exclusively, at a 30% discount, this offer is valid from now until 31st May only.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for a free catalogue or for our sales representatives to present the books to you. Do let us know if you need further assistance on this and we look forward to serve you.

Exclusive promotion for ISLN

Visit Kingfisher site here. 

Download Belair catalogue

Belair provides a creative approach to learning, a wealth of expert advice and achievable, inexpensive, classroom-tested ideas that you'll use year after year.

Dear Respected Educators,  

  

We are pleased to share with you Belair's range of new editions, which are available for immediate dispatch from our Singapore warehouse.

From now until 31st May 2012, we are offering a special 30% discount and free delivery*

How to order

1.  Email orders to angela@apdsing.com or

2.  Fax order form to (65) 6749 3552

Representative's visit

Our friendly representatives are always ready to share and present to you, this exciting range of titles. Please contact:

Ms Shelly Chua       96205464    shellychua@apdsing.com

Mr Tom Chang        91897554    tom@apdsing.com

We look forward to working closely with you in 2012, to fulfill your academic goals.  Please let us know if you need more info or if we can be of any help.
Please send your orders to orders@apdsing.com

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