Hans Christian Andersen
Tomorrow is the birth date of one of childen's literature's most beloved storytellers - Mr Hans Christian Andersen. Who cannot remember the well-known, slightly melancholy stories of Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl and The Little Mermaid or the wonderfully satifying end to The Ugly Duckling? My favourite is The Nightingale and I still treasure the ancient picture book collection that features it on its front cover.
This year is the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth and the whole world is celebrating it in some way or another. I was amazed to discover there is actually a website dedicated to various events being organised here in Singapore. There are storytelling sessions, plays, a stamp exhibition at the Philatelic Museum, art competitions, and much much more! Go check it out and get your children hooked on the classics!
Bookaburra's storytellers will be choosing simple retellings for the young ones who come to the storytelling sessions throughout the year and we'll be getting in as many of Andersen's stories as we can. We are planning a big front window display, now that we actually have windows to display things in! What a luxury! They are a bit blank at the moment as we seek permission to have book illustrations featured - but they will look brilliant when they do go up!
We've had lots of lovely complements on our new look and we hope you like what we have done to make the shop better organised and easier to select what you are looking for. If you have any suggestions at all for us to improve our service, please write in to me at lynette.bookaburra at gmail dot com (forgive the way that's written but we get so much spam on our other email that I want to be sure not to get any on this one!).
Not all stories end with a "happily ever after" but at least we can make sure there are plenty of opportunities for you to come and open up a new book and read those magical words, "Once upon a time ..." or words to that effect.
This year is the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth and the whole world is celebrating it in some way or another. I was amazed to discover there is actually a website dedicated to various events being organised here in Singapore. There are storytelling sessions, plays, a stamp exhibition at the Philatelic Museum, art competitions, and much much more! Go check it out and get your children hooked on the classics!
Bookaburra's storytellers will be choosing simple retellings for the young ones who come to the storytelling sessions throughout the year and we'll be getting in as many of Andersen's stories as we can. We are planning a big front window display, now that we actually have windows to display things in! What a luxury! They are a bit blank at the moment as we seek permission to have book illustrations featured - but they will look brilliant when they do go up!
We've had lots of lovely complements on our new look and we hope you like what we have done to make the shop better organised and easier to select what you are looking for. If you have any suggestions at all for us to improve our service, please write in to me at lynette.bookaburra at gmail dot com (forgive the way that's written but we get so much spam on our other email that I want to be sure not to get any on this one!).
Not all stories end with a "happily ever after" but at least we can make sure there are plenty of opportunities for you to come and open up a new book and read those magical words, "Once upon a time ..." or words to that effect.