Week-end Book Review: The Grand Plan to Fix Everything by Uma Krishnaswami,...
Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Abigail Halpin, The Grand Plan to Fix Everything Atheneum, 2011. Age: 9+ In her exuberant new book, The Grand Plan to Fix Everything, award-winning writer Uma...
View ArticleThe 2011 Asian Festival of Children’s Content and its Bounties by Aline Pereira
Aline Pereira is an independent writer, editor and media consultant specializing in multicultural children’s books, and until January this year, she was Managing Editor of PaperTigers, a post she had...
View ArticleScholastic Asian Book Award 2012 – Submissions deadline 17 October
The deadline for submissions to the 2012 Scholastic Asian Book Award is just under a month away, on 17 October 2011 – 5.00p.m. Singapore time. The National Book Development Council of Singapore and...
View ArticleReading the World Challenge 2011 – Update 3
Since my last update on this year’s PaperTigers Reading the World Challenge, we have added some great books to our list. Together, we have read two new autobiographical picture books: Allen Say’s...
View ArticleAsian Festival of Children’s Content Announces Two Asian Book Awards!
PaperTigers is a proud sponsor of the 2012 Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) which will take place May 26 – 29 at The Arts House in Singapore. Lots of exciting events are planned this year;...
View ArticlePaperTigers’ Global Voices feature with award winning author Holly Thompson...
English-language Asia-set Children’s and YA Fiction ~ by Holly Thompson Part 2 of 3 (read Part 1 here) Some years back as we settled into our bicultural family life with young children here in Japan,...
View Article2012 South Asia Book Award Winners Announced!
The South Asia Book Award, administered by the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, is given annually for up to two outstanding works of literature, from early childhood to secondary reading...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Spirit of PaperTigers Book Set 2012
We are very proud to announce the new book set for our Spirit of PaperTigers Outreach Programme. This year we have selected four books in total: three books that will be sent to all the schools and...
View ArticlePaperTigers 10th Anniversary: Uma Krishnaswami’s Top 10 AND a Quick Chat
One of the books in our recently announced 2012 Spirit of PaperTigers Book Set is the gorgeous Out of the Way! Out of the Way! by the almost-same-named Uma Krishnaswami (author) and Uma Krishnaswamy...
View ArticlePaperTigers 10th Anniversary Extra! Top 10 Multi-Cultural Picture Books by...
Just when we thought the party was over, hooray, thanks to a computer glitch (and with sincere apologies to Cynthia that her wonderful list got caught up in a computer saga too long to go into here),...
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