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Book Synopsis The Little Red Cliff by : Yeo Hong Eng
Download or read book The Little Red Cliff written by Yeo Hong Eng and published by Partridge Singapore. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Red Cliff portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s in Tanah Merah Kechil (Little Red Cliff) in a corner of Bedok District along the eastern coast of Singapore. Author Yeo Hong Eng chronicles the story of his family, the Yeo family, as they struggled to make a living during the lean years after the Japanese Occupation. He describes in detail how his parents developed the land for farming and exploited other available resources, such as sand mining during rainy seasons, until they were forced to leave the land in 1963. He also explains how they processed coconuts into cooking oil and bamboo into food, materials for building trellises, farming accessories, and basic toys. Whether they were working in animal husbandry or in vegetable cultivation, his grandmother and parents used the age-old methods passed down from their parents and grandparents to work with the land and their animals. What's more, they made sure to take time from their work to celebrate important festivals, entertainment, and the joys and sorrows of everyday life. They attended wayangs (street plays), flew kites, and made their own playthings-shuttles, spinners, sling shots, and musical instruments-with whatever raw materials they had on hand. In The Little Red Cliff, Yeo Hong Eng shares a description of family life in Singapore in the mid-twentieth century-its lows and highs, its struggles and joys.
Book Synopsis The Big Old Rambutan Tree by : Kathy Creamer
Download or read book The Big Old Rambutan Tree written by Kathy Creamer and published by Little Pink Dog Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering an orphaned tiger cub at the bottom of the big old rambutan tree, an intelligent and gentle orangutan, named Ginger, rescues him and brings him up as her own child, despite the warnings from the other orangutans about tigers being their natural enemy, and that Ginger would one day become the tiger’s dinner. Ginger teaches the tiger cub all she knows about the world, and how to live like an orangutan. The tiger grows up on a diet of leaves, fruit, honey, insects and bird’s eggs, but he hungers for something more satisfying to eat. When the tiger’s instinct for hunting gradually appears and his appetite for fresh meat becomes too overpowering, the two friends realise that they have to part company, but their deep bond of friendship remains strong and as the years pass by they never forget about each other. When human encroachment threatens the rainforest with fire and Ginger’s life is in danger, a trusted old friend comes to her rescue. A sensitive story which reveals the plight of orangutans and other wildlife as they fight for survival in their ever-diminishing rainforest habitat, which is directly due to the activities of human development and the need for land to grow palm and other crops. With 100 percent of proceeded being donated to Orangutan Outreach comes a tale of hope as the strong bonds of friendship are showcased through the struggles to survive in the threatened Sumatran rainforest.
Book Synopsis The Goddess in the Living Room by : Latha
Download or read book The Goddess in the Living Room written by Latha and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from Tamil to English, the book begins with the story of Alyssa, who is left with her grandparents on Pulau Ubin as a child and her experience with devastating loss as an adult. Among other stories: A grandmother whose final wish is to carry the kavadi, a wife who wonders if her role is simply to cook for her family according to their needs and desires and a filial daughter caring for her terminally ill mother. The Goddess in the Living Room is a collection of short stories where the voices of Tamil women in Singapore are given a powerful outlet by Latha.
Download or read book Riska written by Riska Orpa Sari and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the “headhunters of Borneo,” but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to the stories and legends of her tribe. In this vivid memoir, Riska Orpa Sari tells us about the remote village of her birth, where rice is cultivated by cutting and burning the rain forest, where hunting and gathering take place under its dark canopy. She describes courtship and marriage, funeral rites, the sound headhunters make before they strike, the impact of the logging industry on the Dayak way of life, and the centrality of the river to all aspects of daily living. As Riska’s marvelous story unfolds, a witty, intelligent personality is revealed, endearing, resilient, and dedicated to the preservation of her people.
Download or read book Lola and Grandpa written by Ashling Kwok and published by Little Pink Dog Books. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola and Grandpa is the story of a young girl and the tender, loving relationship she shares with her grandpa. When Lola’s grandpa passes away, she struggles to cope. However, as time passes Lola starts to remember all of the special times they shared. She can see her grandpa reflected in all of the things around her and realises that even though he is no longer physically with her, they will always remain connected.
Author :Lee Su Kim Publisher :Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN 13 :9814868833 Total Pages :175 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (148 download)
Book Synopsis Kebaya Tales: 10th Anniversary Edition by : Lee Su Kim
Download or read book Kebaya Tales: 10th Anniversary Edition written by Lee Su Kim and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after its initial publication, national bestseller Kebaya Tales: Of Matriarchs, Mistresses and Matchmakers returns with a brand-new story. This collection of short stories teems with fascinating characters, plot twists and turns, and cultural idiosyncrasies of the Peranakan community. Laced with humour and occasional satire, Kebaya Tales kickstarted the three collections of stories centred on the nonyas and babas of the Straits Chinese people. Kebaya Tales won the 2011 Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards for fiction, Malaysia’s top literary prize.
Book Synopsis Mr. Ming and the Mooncake Dragon by : Kathy Creamer
Download or read book Mr. Ming and the Mooncake Dragon written by Kathy Creamer and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is mid-autumn festival time again and Mr Ming is busy in his shop baking the most delicious mooncakes you have ever tasted. Everyone wants to know the ingredients in Mr Ming's mooncakes, but he won't tell them, as the recipe is an old family secret. He won't even let anyone into his kitchen. That's because he has another secret, a secret even bigger than his secret mooncake recipe. Mr Ming has... a dragon! Madame Moneybag doesn't know that though, and she is determined to steal Mr Ming's prize-winning mooncake recipe for herself. When she breaks into Mr Ming's shop, the dragon hears her and goes to investigate. When he sees the thief reading the recipe book, he becomes so angry that hot flames shoot from his mouth! Then a fireball bounces out and shoots up into the sky, taking Madame Moneybag with it. It doesn't stop until it hits the moon. Boom! The next evening, little Ah Beng comes to help his grandfather in the shop after school, and when they look up at the mid-autumn moon together, they discover something rather unusual indeed. A charming, playful story about the beauty of the mid-autumn festival, based on the 3,000-year-old Chinese legend of the lady in the moon.
Book Synopsis Two Trickster Tales from Russia by : Sophie Masson
Download or read book Two Trickster Tales from Russia written by Sophie Masson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet a brave little girl called Masha who outwits a big bad bear with some tasty pies, and a beautiful but none too bright rooster, his long-suffering friends, and a cunning fox! Two Trickster Tales from Russia is the launch title for Christmas Press, a new Australian publisher specialising in beautiful picture books for children which feature traditional stories from many lands, retold by well-known authors and stunningly illustrated in a classic style. Two Trickster Tales from Russia includes the lively, funny Russian folktales, Masha and the Bear and The Rooster with the Golden Crest, retold in a fresh and engaging style by award-winning writer Sophie Masson, author of more than fifty books for children and young adults. It is the first book for new illustrator David Allan, and his gorgeous illustrations are inspired by classic Russian children's picture books. Suitable for a wide age range, Two Trickster Tales from Russia is a delight to read aloud to young children, as well as for older children to read on their own, and makes a wonderful gift for Christmas and any time of the year. About the author The award-winning and internationally-published author of more than 50 books for children, young adults and children, Sophie Masson was born in Indonesia of French expatriate parents and came to Australia as a school-age child, spending much of her childhood shuttling between France and Australia, in the process developing an intense love of writing and reading. Her delight in traditional stories, combined with a lifelong fascination with Russia, a country she has visited several times, has resulted in several books with a Russian theme, including two novels, The Firebird (Hachette 2001) and Scarlet in the Snow(Random House Australia 2013), and her first picture book, Two Trickster Tales from Russia, which is the realisation of a long-held dream.Sophie says: The stories in Two Trickster Tales from Russia, Masha and the Bear and The Rooster with the Golden Crest are two folk tales that are well-loved in Russia, but not so well-known outside it. I chose them because the two of them embody a lively sense of fun--it's great to see the small and apparently powerless outwitting big brutes or cunning schemers! There's also a strong feel of the woods, which are so much a part of Russian life and culture. And there's a great rhythm to the stories which I've added to by having little verses here and there. About the illustrator: David Allan completed a Diploma in Fine Art and has been part of several Fine Art exhibitions of Landscapes and Portraits in Oils. He's worked in bookshops and as a graphic designer and web designer, but always dreamed of becoming an illustrator. Influences in his work include classic illustration masters such as Arthur Rackham and Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin (especially for Two Trickster Tales), along with Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha and more recent illustrators such as Alan Lee and William Stout. Two Trickster Tales from Russia is his first book. He is currently working on another title for Christmas Press.David says: For the artwork I used pen and watercolour on paper. The style for this book is pretty much an extension of what I normally do. Prior to starting the project, Sophie introduced me to the work of the great Russian Illustrator Ivan Bilibin whose work I had somehow missed before and now love. His use of a clean line and areas of flat colour style has been a huge influence on the look of the illustrations I produced for Two Trickster Tales from Russia. About the designer:Fiona McDonald: A graduate of the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Fiona McDonald has worked as a graphic designer, doll-maker, cloth sculptor and artist. She is also the author of several books of non-fiction, including the best-selling The Popular History of Graffiti(Skyhorse Publishing 2013), as well as an illustrated novel f
Book Synopsis Hector and His Highland Dancers by : Anthony Sevil
Download or read book Hector and His Highland Dancers written by Anthony Sevil and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian chicken breeder, Mr McFowler, fails to win competitions with his prized chicken, Hector, but he discovers Hector has another talent: dancing to Mr McFowler's old Scottish records. Mr McFowler sees an opportunity and has Hector form a highland dancing troupe which eventually woos audiences at the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Book Synopsis Table Manners: The Cookbook by : Jessie Ware
Download or read book Table Manners: The Cookbook written by Jessie Ware and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beautifully put-together with wonderfully crafted, full-on flavour recipes for everyone. A proper family feast of a cookbook!' Tom Kerridge ‘This is a gorgeous book.’ Nigella Lawson ‘Lennie and Jessie are as madly entertaining to read as they are to be around. They are also brilliant storytellers so every recipe is as personal as it could be: a classic Jewish chopped liver served on Friday night dinners, aromatic Beef Stifado eaten on Greek holidays or an orange and pistachio cake created by son and brother. I adore this family.’ Yotam Ottolenghi ‘This book encapsulates humour, kindness, bucket loads of love and, most importantly, good food. I’m so happy to have the Ware family in my life and in my kitchen.’ Sam Smith 'damned good food' The Telegraph ‘Mum. Guess what?’ ‘What Jessie?’ ‘We’ve written a cookbook’. ‘I know darling! Do you think anyone will want to buy it?’ ‘Well, it’s the recipes we’ve made our guests – the really good ones. Like the Sausage and Bean Casserole we made Ed Sheeran, the Drunken Crouton and Kale Salad we made Yotam Ottolenghi and the two Blackberry and Custard Tarts we served Nigella.' 'You ate a whole one before she arrived, darling.' 'It’s a bloody good recipe mum.' Cooking through Table Manners is like having Jessie and Lennie at the table with you: brash, funny and full of opinions. In true Ware style, their cookbook is divided into Effortless, A Bit More Effort, Summertime, Desserts and Baking (thanks to Jessie’s brother Alex), Chrismukkah (Christmas, Hanukkah and celebrations) and, of course, Jewish-ish Food. These delicious, easy dishes are designed for real people with busy and sometimes chaotic lives with the ultimate goal of everyone eating together so unfiltered chat can flourish.
Book Synopsis My Boyhood in Ceylon by : Herbert Amarasinghe
Download or read book My Boyhood in Ceylon written by Herbert Amarasinghe and published by Herbert Amarasinghe. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the tale of a boy born into a middle-class rural family in British colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). A vivid story related through the experiences of cultural upbringing, tradition, lifestyle changes and haunting childhood memories of the 1950s and 1960s.
Download or read book Decline & Fall written by Chris Mullin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is politics as it really is: entertaining encounters with constituents and conspirators, tantalising glimpses behind the scenes at the courts of Blair and Brown, all set against the background of the global financial crisis and the great expenses meltdown. Every bit as funny and insightful as his first volume A View From The Foothills, these new diaries provide a snapshot of life in the Westminster village. Preparing to step down after twenty-three years as an MP, Mullin wryly observes 'they say failed politicians make the best diarists, in which case I am in with a chance'.
Book Synopsis The Boy Who Could Fly and Other Magical Plays for Children by : Ursula Dubosarsky
Download or read book The Boy Who Could Fly and Other Magical Plays for Children written by Ursula Dubosarsky and published by Second Look Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wished you could fly? Well a boy called Icarus and his father built themselves wings out of feathers and wax. Up they flew into the huge blue sky. But it wasn't as easy as it looked! Here are eleven easy-to-read, exciting and funny plays for children by multi award-winning author Ursula Dubosarsky, based on stories from ancient Greek and Roman myths, where all sorts of very strange things can happen. A girl becomes a spider, a statue comes to life, a couple turn into a pair of lions and that's just a few of the startling transformations. Inspired by the Roman poet Ovid¿s Metamorphoses, these plays are great fun for group performance, reading aloud, or just curling up by yourself with your eyes wide open, ready to be amazed!With lively illustrations by Amy Golbach.
Download or read book Tomodachi written by Simon Higgins and published by Eagle Books. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwrecked at the far end of the world in a land at war.Befriended by runaways fated to harrowing paths.In constant danger from warriors, bandits and superstitious villagers who take his blue eyes and pale skin as proof that he¿s a demon¿Young Daniel Marlowe and his Japanese `tomodachi¿, his friends, Otsu and Kenji, are about to stumble into a stomach-knotting adventure where a ferocious public test of samurai virtue and a murder investigation will collide.Their hazardous journey promises answers. The hope of being joyfully reunited, the risk of confirming loss.But the spirit world has its own part to play in their destinies, for someone -or something- waits watchfully in the ancient Forest of the Night.
Download or read book Lucy Newton, Little Witch written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy¿s mum is always busy, going to this meeting and that, leaving Lucy alone in their old house with one strict rule: NO MAGIC.Lucy doesn¿t mean to conjure the giant green slug. She only wanted a friendly kitten to keep her company.Now, with a talking spellbook and a grumpy cat called Thomas they must race to get rid of the slug before it eats the prized cabbage garden of the witch next door ¿ and before her mum gets home.A lively, entertaining story for young readers.
Book Synopsis Princess Hayley's Comet by : Rebecca Fung
Download or read book Princess Hayley's Comet written by Rebecca Fung and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Hayley has everything a princess could want: except a comet. It's her only birthday wish. Comets are so sparkly and they shoot through the sky so fast :who wouldn't want one? But then Hayley realises the only way she's going to get her wish is to catch a comet for herself. Joined by the very best friends a princess could have, Hayley aims to build the biggest and best --the only-- comet-catcher in the world and make sure her birthday dream comes true!A magical, funny story for young readers by a talented new author.
Book Synopsis The Phantasmic Detective Agency by : Julian Leatherdale
Download or read book The Phantasmic Detective Agency written by Julian Leatherdale and published by Eagle Books. This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, Christmas Eve, 1911.The world is changing fast: giant warships, aeroplanes with bombs, spies and assassins, fear of war with Germany. The cosy lives of Sophie and Samuel Keeler and their famous stage magician father Edmund Keeler are about to be torn apart by secrets, espionage and monstrous creatures from the shadows. Trapped in their stuffy Edwardian childhoods, the Keeler siblings pine for adventure. Sophie (14) dreams of being Britain's first woman detective while Samuel (15) would love to be a pilot, the newest kind of hero. They both envy their eccentric uncle Alfred, a brilliant and notorious Sherlock Holmes-like paranormal detective who uses his brilliant deductive powers and esoteric equipment to solve mysteries from the world of spirits and mythical beasts. When their uncle's performance of a Christmas Eve shadow-puppet play of Little Red Riding Hood unexpectedly releases the hungry spectre of the Shadow Wolf, Sophie and Samuel will get more adventure than they ever bargained for. But Shadow Wolf proves to be only the first mystery in a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the Keeler family, as Sophie and Samuel witness their parents, Edmund and Alice, vanish for real in the middle of their latest spectacular magic act. So they turn to their eccentric uncle to keep them safe and solve the mystery of their parents' disappearance. From the Royal Naval dockyards of Plymouth to the bone-stacked catacombs of Paris, Uncle Alfred and his two apprentice detectives, Samuel and Sophie, confront eerie creatures and blood-chilling danger as they are chased by a ruthless spy-ring determined to harness the dark forces of Magick as weapons of war. As Sophie struggles with her refusal to believe in shadow-wolves and ghosts and her brother Samuel takes terrible risks to impress their eccentric uncle, the Keeler children find moments of great courage and inspired cleverness, as they try to solve the mysteries in Uncle Alfred's casebook with plenty of clues and spine-tingling intrigue along the way.
