Our friends from Once Upon a Bookstore gifted the twins a set of Chinese pop-up books as a going away gift, and it struck me that I...

It’s the seventh day of the Lunar New Year today, and I’m trying to keep the Chinese New Year (CNY) mood alive here in our Jakarta home...

Like many other English and Literature teachers, I am easily amused by word play, so I was keen to read ‘Sarahbelle’s Playful Puns’, as I...

I don’t remember when I began learning about proverbs, but I vaguely remember my mum using this blue grammar book which covered all the...

Our recent relocation meant that we had to find a new school for N, and when we got here, one of the first things I did was to arrange...

Just before we left for Jakarta, we received a very special parcel from Armour Publishing, and N was absolutely thrilled to see so many...

Some time back, when we were trying to find ways to get N interested in Chinese, C did some research online and came across Chineasy. He...

I introduced the Letterland books and characters to N when he was about a year old, but it was only recently that he started being really...

It’s been a while since I’ve written a Friday Flips post, not because I don’t have any more good books to recommend, but because I’ve...

When I was young, Singa the Courtesy Lion was quite a popular character. How popular, you ask? Enough for my parents to order a Singa...

I’ve been a fan of the Ang Ku Kueh Girl’s art for a while now, so I was delighted to learn that she started her own series of children’s...

This week, instead of reviewing local books, I’m reviewing a new local children’s book subscription business, called Josh and Cherie...

We are no strangers to the Timmy & Tammy series of books, as we purchased some of the Level 1 and 2 books previously, and have also...

We’re taking a week’s break from our local authors Friday Flips series because it’s Father’s Day this Sunday, and one of the Taro Gomi...

I first saw copies of local author Phua San San’s “What’s Inside the Red Box” at Popular Bookstore, and was intrigued by it, because I...

We actually received a copy of ‘Grandma and the Things that Stay the Same’ just before Chinese New Year, which was perfect timing, since...

Last year, we had the privilege of interviewing Anita Sebastian, author of the Ranger Anne series, when she released her first set of...

We have been following the Squirky series since the first book, and after each book, Noah will ask me for the next one, as he wants to...

We’ve been reading so many great books by local authors recently that I decided to review them in our weekly Friday Flips series....

Noah loves vehicles of all sorts, as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, if you’ve been following our posts, so when I chanced upon these...