Little Godwit-Mole-Mimic win Moonbeam Awards’ Best Picture Book Series

I’m over the moon and beaming over the shiny news from the 2021 Moonbeam Awards results!

My Little Series picture books – Little Godwit Finds His Wings/Little Mole’s Awesome Star/Little Mimic’s Superpower – has been awarded Best Picture Book Series (Silver Medal) at the 2021 US-based Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards!

Our Little Series, which I conceived and was illustrated by the talented illustrator John Lim, has been a precious collaboration. And it happened with the wonderful support of our publisher Marshall Cavendish Children and our editor Lydia.

I will be beaming for a while!

My Little Series picture books – Little Godwit Finds His Wings/Little Mole’s Awesome Star/Little Mimic’s Superpower – are available in the bookstores, on Amazon (online overseas) and Times Bookstores (online local).

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Little Godwit zooms with Act 3 @ Singapore Writer’s Festival 2020

Little Godwit found his wings to zip and zoom this past Sunday at the Singapore Writer’s Festival 2020.

I had the pleasure of zooming with Little Godwit as he found his wings and voice through Act 3’s online interactive performance of my book.

As the literary and performance arts world atunes to a new beat, I’m glad that Little Godwit found wind beneath his wings to soar along!

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Speak Good English with Little Godwit & Read-Aloud Expert Suzanne Jung

A few weeks back, my friend and read-aloud expert Suzanne Jung did an awesome storytelling video of Little Mole’s Awesome Star and I did a mini-introduction to introduce myself and her. This was for a preschool chain that approached me to contribute a storytelling session for this stay-home period.

National Heritage Board chanced upon it and asked if Suzanne and I could do a another storytelling video for them? They loved our combination of my author introduction and Suzanne’s amazing storytelling.

So Little Godwit finds his wings and voice in the Speak Good English Movement’s Stories: Let’s Connect series!

Suzanne, thanks for lending your awesome voice to both the Little Godwit and Little Mole books!

It’s been such a big delight to see you read my Little series!

You can buy Little Godwit Finds His Wings at Times Bookshop’s online bookstore Goguru.

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Words Go Round with Roger Jenkins, Little Godwit & other tales

Oh my feathers! I’m delighted to see Little Godwit take off on a second wind! This March 2020, Little Godwit finds his wings at the ArtScience Museum as part of the Singapore Writer’s Festival’s Words Go Round! Programme.

Read more and sign up for this storytelling session and more at the Singapore Writer’s Festival’s link here!

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Flying through Stormy Weather, Rocky Terrain, Dark Valley & Good Grief

This has been a very eventful year for Little Godwit and me. Little Godwit launched off this year from a dark valley amidst stormy weather. I’m glad that this little book took flight and journeyed through the year to a sweet year-end.

Thanks for all your support for the Little Bird Who Could and here’s to a meaningful and restful year-end!

 

Godwit versions of me & John Lim, the hugely talented illustrator of Little Godwit

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Celebrate Singapore’s Bicentennial by Reading with the Times

See who flew into Times’ Bookstore’s Singapore’s Bicentennial Collection of books!

Delighted to see Little Godwit shelved with a high-brow collection of books in the store and also in the store front displays of Times Bookstore at Jelita.

(Left photo) Little Godwit with my publisher Marshall Cavendish’s books on the standee to the right. Other children’s titles by Epigram Books and Bubbly Books to the left.

(Right photo) Little Godwit lands on shelves of heavy high-brow books and tries to fit in. 🙂

Little Godwit Finds His Wings is part of Times bookstore’s Bicentennial books collection – all going at 20% off for the month of August.

Read with the Times and grab your copies of books by Singapore authors before the promotion ends on 31st August!

 

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Help! Vote Little Godwit for POPULAR Readers’ Choice Awards 2019!

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Help! Vote Little Godwit for POPULAR Readers’ Choice Awards 2019!

Little Godwit has made it into POPULAR’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2019 Longlist!

Please vote Little Godwit Finds His Wings and help him soar into the Finals! Click on  this POPULAR page link to vote! Your family and friends also can vote…haha 🙂

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Start your Picture Book Reading Voyage with your Kids this Read Fest!

I’m an advocate for reading for pleasure. And that reading children’s picture books shouldn’t just be written off as child’s play. The benefits are so much richer.

“According to a study published by the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, reading just one picture book to a children every day exposes them to 78,000 words a year.

Researchers have calculated that in the five years before kindergarten kids who live in literacy-rich homes hear about 1.4 million more words compared with children whose caregivers don’t read to them. This is important for their future selves because the ability to communicate well is a skill which employers often cite as something they value in prospective employees.”

Read the full article here: 4 Reasons you should be reading books daily according to Science.

Read Fest!, a month long national reading movement by National Library Board, has just kicked off from now till end July. Reading movements like these help remind us to provide the word-wings for our little ones to soar and be better equipped to articulate their way in the world.

Over the weekend, I did a book reading of Little Godwit Finds His Wings at Bishan public library to a group of children and their adults as part of Read Fest!

With a few of the kids after the book reading session, which is part of National Library Board’s national reading movement

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Little Godwit soars into the Power of Stories in Star Learners project

I was thrilled that the Star Learners preschool chain selected Little Godwit Finds His Wings as their mentor text for their chain-wide Star project. For this project, the centers took reference from Little Godwit’s story to create their own centre’s The Power of Stories projects.

Screen set up for puppet-based storytelling. The birds on the white board were created for craft and storytelling

I had the pleasure of visiting a centre that staged a puppet show based on my book. I also visited 3 other Star Learners centers to share with the children how stories come about and the story behind my stories.

I’m happy that Little Godwit, the left-behind bird who could, flew into many neighbourhoods in Singapore through this starry project.

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Singlit’s Precious Little Readers & one Big-Feathered Mystery Reader

Thank you to Gabloverq and Hweezbooks for posting and sharing this with me! Encouragement like this lightens cloudy days like today.

And a big-feathered Mystery Reader reading Little Godwit Finds His Wings to a classroom of kids is very uplifting too. Thanks to my dear, dear friend Arlene who sent this photo of her Significant Other all geared up for the big read!

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