2016 Parenting Tips Wed 20 Jan: Developing Your Child’s EQ through Stories

  2016 Parenting Tips 2016 Parenting Tips – Introducing the best books and method’s for developing your child’s empathy, creativity and emotional well-being. Pia will share the latest research behind picture books and language learning and how to overcome the challenges many parent’s encounter when reading to their child. Recommended titles,including “First 100 Books for 0-3 years” will be […]

Between The Lines: Hong Kong kids can benefit from reading quality books

Numerous studies point to the same finding that children who love to read grow up to be more astute, aware, compassionate, resourceful and resilient than those who don’t read for pleasure. Parents and teachers should pause and give thought to what they want to accomplish in getting children to read. Finding joy and comfort in […]

Between The Lines: Religion in Hong Kong schools: teach it, don’t preach it

  Schools should not promote religion, but they should teach it. Understanding history is impossible without an understanding of the religious traditions that helped shape the world. From a purely secular standpoint, even atheists should know and understand what they choose not to believe in. Schools have very different approaches to the question of religious […]

2015 Pop-Up Book Shop!

Please come by for a festive drink while shopping for children’s books this December! We will have a wide selection of English and Chinese titles, including baby book gift sets, transitional readers for those children beginning to read independently and chapter books for the book worms.  

Between The Lines: Let children play musical instruments, their way

If your evening routine includes arguments, incentives and timers in order to cajole your children to practise an instrument, you might want to rethink your approach. While creating music should be a joyful lifelong experience, the path towards mastery of an instrument can be tempestuous if the motivation is wrong. Music, like competitive sports, Advanced […]

Between The Lines: How high-quality picture books can encourage kids to read more

High-quality children’s picture books are the building blocks to a lifelong love of reading. When I disparage commercial products in book form that are based on cartoon characters, my friends protest, insisting their children love storybook versions of their favourite animated TV series. I counter that recognising and enjoying stories about familiar television characters is […]

Between The Lines: Reading from the same page

Many will be surprised to learn that Hong Kong has the world’s lowest rate of family literacy – a term used to describe parents (or extended family members and other adults) and children learning together. Just 12 per cent of children in Hong Kong have that experience compared to an international average of 37 per […]