The 4th Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award Winning Books
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Between The Lines: Why we should be encouraging everyone to read for pleasure
Some children need a good example to follow when it comes to reading. Over the summer, every student, administrator and teacher at my son’s high school will read Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. Carefully selected, I suspect, for the themes of race and identity, this book should ignite conversations and spark […]
Between The Lines: Seeing is believing: encouraging your kids to read won’t work if you don’t
Some parents think reading is for the elite or that their own tastes in reading lack sophistication, but children who see parents enjoying reading are likelier to develop good reading habits Visitors at last year’s Hong Kong Book Fair. Photo: Sam Tsang It is well known that while our children don’t […]
Between The Lines: Two books that teach children how to help others
Every one of us starts life as an egocentric baby, concerned only with having our own needs fulfilled. Somewhere along the road to adulthood, we all become less self-centred, to varying degrees. Some children are so protected from growing pains that they never let go of their self-centredness. Others grow up in an environment that […]
Between The Lines: Schools worldwide consider homework ban, partly to ease burden on pupils and teachers
Homework is stressful for children and leaves them little time to do more constructive things, experts say – but parents like to see their children doing some. Photo: Sherry Lee Homework is so inextricably linked to school it’s hard to think of one without the other. But increasingly, educators and child development specialists are […]
Between The Lines: Parents need to agree about how to raise children. Here’s a book that helps
Children and their feelings were neglected well into the 1960s. Betty Francis (played by January Jones) in the television series Mad Men was probably typical of her era. My husband and I never argued until our children came along. At first, we blamed the kids. Then we blamed the stress of parenting, both external […]
Between The Lines: Why audiobooks are good for multitaskers, travellers and young readers
Karen White at work in her home studio. What book lover among us has not wished that they could get paid to read? For professional audiobook narrator Karen White, the dream came true when she was expecting her first child 16 years ago. Now, with more than 200 books recorded, she says her theatre […]
The Shortlisted Books for the 4th Feng Zi Kai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award
We are pleased to share with you the 34 shortlisted books for the 4th Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Book Award in 2015!
Between The Lines: Five children’s books about Paris that inspire Hong Kong family to visit
Last month, my husband and I started brainstorming our next holiday while we were, funnily enough, on holiday. We considered Amsterdam, Prague and cities in Spain or Italy. And then our eyes lit up at the idea of going back to Paris, the destination of our first trip together. I admit that, while he was […]
Between The Lines: How To Ease The Pain Of Parting
By Early April, word usually begins to spread quickly among the expatriate community who will be leaving Hong Kong in summer.
