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My Written 60 by SG60 blog series ends with my 60th book (in the making).
The Way Ahead was a manuscript used in a competition tie-up between Singapore Children’s Book Festival and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts this year. The winning student illustrators from NAFA are presently illustrating this book which will be published by Bubbly Books.
...Pan Pacific Hotels’ client brief: Make this an evergreen book like Prince Bear & Pauper Bear.
That was a tall order. I have never been able to write another story with a similar essence to Prince Bear & Pauper Bear, my debut picture book.
I panicked. I prayed. And I pondered (within a very limited timeframe).
Then, the s...
The Earthkeepers series took some time to gestate.
It began with a passing conversation between Graceworks publisher and me about working on a book project with an environmental theme.
Graceworks: You want to do something on the environment?
Me: Yah, okay.
And that was that.
But I did know that I didn’t want to write anyt...
The opportunity to work on this PEER series dropped into my email inbox, with God’s favour.
Filos Community Services was looking to publish a four health-themed picture book series for early readers. These books aim to raise awareness of healthy lifestyle habits – Play, Eat, Exercise and Rest.
I roped in John Lim (recently named Illustrator of the Year at ...
Little Hero and Little Hero’s Wish are Covid babies.
Their inception came about after I decided to put together a family legacy book during Singapore’s Circuit Breaker (our version of a semi-lockdown during Covid 19).
I interviewed my father about his childhood and my grandparents’ experiences in 1940s and 1950s Singapore. The anecdotes s...