This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
Witty and dark, Wolf Granny is a tale of a wolf and three kids who are left alone at home by their mother! With their sharp senses and a common aim to not be predators to the sly wolf who finds her way inside their house, the three siblings find their way out with vigilance to get rid of her.
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Three Monks
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
When a tragedy involving fire befalls the three monks and their temple at once, they practically learn the meaning of ‘Unity is Strength’ and cooperation; and that, without it the balance of nature and humans is disrupted.
The Legend of Lady White
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
The Legend of the Lady White, an ancient Chinese folktale has a great mix of romance, magic, betrayal and action. This folktale revolves around a Buddhist Monk, a snake which takes shape of a beautiful white lady, who was depicted as an evil demon, and Xu Xian, who falls in love with her and has a potential risk of life from the snake. Breaking all barriers, and to an extent the laws of nature, the two fall in love and fight against all odds despite there being a forbidden love.
The River Snail Maiden
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
An ancient Chinese Folktale, The River Snail Maiden is about a beautiful maiden who comes out of a snail shell as ‘a mysterious housekeeper’, and prepares the food for a poor farmer, Xie Duan. Upon falling in love, they fight the obstacles coming from the emperor of a humanly world and a leech from the animals’ kingdom, proving that love stands tall!
Sweet Braised Duck
Kuang was five years old when he first arrived in Singapore from Shantou, China. Reunited with his abusive good-for-nothing grandfather and a new step-grandmother, Kuang and his parents struggled to live with dignity while battling poverty. When he became the eldest brother to seven siblings, greater responsibilities weighed on his shoulders. He gave up his education and worked as a fish porridge hawker assistant to help the family make ends meet. Twists and turns in his life eventually brought him back to his hometown cuisine. How did he derive a unique recipe of his own? How did he realise his dream of becoming a successful Teochew braised duck rice seller?
Nuwa Mending the Sky
This series acts as an assiduous explorer, unearthing colossal cultural treasures. The ten typical Chinese folktales selected vividly present classic and ancient Chinese culture. The series is a must-read for all children.
The unique Chinese-style illustrations will engage children and the stories will instill wise oriental philosophies of life such as diligence, courage and kindness.
The books were written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists. The team has won awards such as Feng Zikai Chinese Childen’s Picture Book Award, Hsin Yi Picture Book Award, Bingxin Children’s Literature Award and Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards. The series was reviewed by consultant Dr Wang Jing, a professor of children’s literature at Shanghai Normal University and a student of Mei Zihan, a renowned author of Chinese children’s literature.
After a flood that destroyed and killed all people except Nuwa, she took it upon herself to mend a hole in the sky and save the earth. Since then, in Chinese Mythology, she is considered a goddess and the creator of mankind.
The Muse and Other Stories
The Muse and Other Stories is a collection of dark stories from the author of Not A Monster and Without Anchovies.
An elderly editor discovers the secret of an author and his muse, and tries to save him from the curse of a vengeful spirit.
The Afterlife is in great trouble, and a young man is enlisted by a high-ranking demon to save it.
A deceased murderer is offered the salvation of his soul, but only if he is willing to commit another murder.
After an encounter with a long-lost childhood friend, a young woman discovers the horrific truth about her father.
A young man is tormented by his unborn child.
These unsettling stories confronts not only the supernatural elements that surround us, but the darkness of our hearts.
The scariest part is often the consequences of the choices made by ordinary persons like us.
Teacher Narit
A story told in three parts, Teacher Narit is a historical novel centering on the main protagonist, Narit, a mysterious civil war veteran who escaped the capital in the 70s to start a new life as a history teacher in northern Thailand.
Once a young, idealistic postgraduate student and activist during one of Thailand’s blackest periods, The 14th October 1973 revolution, Narit embarked on a turbulent relationship that led him to battling a war of conscience, love and political allegiance; a war that ended in pain and disillusion for both him and his family-leaving him embittered, running from his past.
However, it is in northern Thailand, that a chance encounter with his first love forces him to confront his demons, and Narit is made to choose between seeking forgiveness or fleeing once more.
My Mother Pattu
Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt readers with their searing honesty.
Lalitha, abused by her own mother, learns that bullies carry emotional traumas that scar everyone’s lives.
Shiva Das confronts the truth of his own culpability when his adult special child dies in tragic circumstances.
A woman, deeply in love with her husband, discovers to her anguish that the love of a good man is not enough.
A little boy tries hard to hold his family together as his parents’ marriage disintegrates before his eyes.
A mother has a poignant yet brutal conversation with God about her severely disabled son.
Three young people idealistically reject racial prejudice and stereotyping, only to find that in Malaysia, their future paths are largely determined by ethnicity and privilege.
The extent to which a woman will go in her hatred for her daughter’s childhood friend, ends in a violent aftermath.
An Indonesian maid realizes that the money she sends home has become more important than her own welfare or safety to her family.
A racial slur triggers reflections on friendship, identity, the loss of belonging and trust in a multi-racial community.
Meet the extraordinary in ordinary people when they confront the truth of their past and present – and refuse to look away. Authentic and unsentimental, each story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit even as it challenges comfortable conventions about identity, love, family, community and race relations.
The Maps of Camarines
Set in a fictional province in the Philippines, the novel tells the story of the Arguelleses, the Visbales, and the Monsantillos-and their eventual downfall.
The three families are members of powerful, wealthy haciendero clans that have long stood uncontested by those in their midst. But beneath the gleam and glitter of their lives lie age-old secrets that speak of deceit, greed, and corruption. Sins amassed over generations will come to a head, calamities and death will wreak havoc on the land, transgressors will face vengeance-and so the cycle goes on.
The Maps of Camarines is a chronicle of the forces that have and continue to assail Philippine society today, as well as the consequences if they are left to fester in the time to come.