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　　尤今不喜歡板著面孔說教，她愛說故事，《親愛的青蛙》一書便說了數十則趣然盎然的故事。這些以糖霜為外衣的小故事，每一則都是別有用心地包裹著“教育”這餡料的。

　　生活對於她來說，不是複印似的刻板、不是錄音似的單調。每天一睜開眼，心里便有了憧憬、期盼、嚮往，因為在屋里屋外，在或許陰暗或許明亮的角落裡，有著無數無數的驚喜在靜靜地等待著，等待她去發現、去發掘。

　　全書共分四輯。

　　第一輯〈青蛙的話〉，敘述了16則有關家庭教育的小故事；第二輯〈人生隧道〉，收錄了16則別具深意的勵志小品；第三輯〈織字成衣〉，給讀者編織了18襲有關教學與創作的彩衣；第四輯〈犛牛精神〉開了17個窗口，讓讀者窺探外面繽紛的世界。趣味盎然的故事中，含著寓意深刻的啟示。別具深意的啟示裡，藏著面目斑斕的故事。

　　《左左和右右》是新加坡著名繪本作家餘廣達的最新作品，也是他特地為愛讀華文書的少年讀者創作的華文繪本。

　　繪本通過既有趣又動人的故事，講述兩個好玩伴、好同學、好朋友的友情故事。在繪本中，一個女孩叫左左，一個男孩叫右右，左左和右右是同班同學，也是鄰居，但是因為家中大人不和睦，媽媽們常常吵架，放學後他們無法快樂地在一起玩耍、一起學習。右右只能在右邊玩，往右邊上學、回家，在右邊活動；左左只能在左邊玩，往左邊上學、回家，在左邊活動。

　　後來，因為家庭變故，兩家人匆匆搬走，他們失散了。十多年後，, 是什麼原因讓他們重逢呢？本書通過美麗的圖畫和文字，帶你進入溫馨的左左和右右的世界。

　　好問、好學的小女孩寧寧，帶著她心愛的「魔術」小青蛙，和家人一起去看一個展覽。在小青蛙的引領下，寧寧「回到從前」，通過與甘榜居民的交流，體驗新加坡建國初期鄉村人以務農為主的生活，以及可貴的甘榜精神。這段奇異的時光旅程使在城市長大的寧寧更加貼近鄉野，在菜園、果園、膠林裡認識農產品與食物、用品之間的關係，並在“重返現實”後，向媽媽了解獅城甘榜的新模式。

　　且讓我們通過悅目的圖畫、清新的文字，走進《寧寧遊甘榜》奇異、溫馨的故事，感受甘榜的魅力。

作者簡介

　　虎威原名黃虛懷，在牛車水長大，從小喜歡畫畫和寫作。曾領獎學金到英國劍橋大學唸書，畢業後回新加坡當建築師。後來又得獎學金，再次到英國留學，並獲約克大學古蹟保留碩士學位。曾負責我國多項公共建築的保留與修復工程。

　　多年來勤於寫作，是《聯合早報》專欄作者。著作包括獲選為 2012 年「讀吧！新加坡」讀物的散文攝影集《飛來飛去》。自 2015 年起創作繪本，作品有由《外公的小房間》《三輪車跑得快》《小熊的新衣》所組成的「牛車水三部曲」，以及《寧寧遊甘榜》。

　　是新加坡教育部推廣華文學習委員會「駐校作家計劃」的作家之一，於多所初級學院及中學指導學生寫散文。亦多次受邀在新加坡作家節、新加坡閱讀節、亞洲少兒讀物節中演講，並在國家藝術理事會的“文字出遊”計劃及出版社玲子傳媒的安排下，於多所中小學為學生們講故事，做活動，推廣其繪本的閱讀。

　　因為新冠疫情的影響，我期待已久的童子軍露營活動被取消了。

　　我心裡難過極了，更偷偷地哭了起來。

　　後來，經過爸爸和媽媽的解說，

　　我開始意識到這次疫情的由來與嚴重性。

　　我決定為這次的疫情做出一些力所能及的事情，

　　於是，我就和妹妹製作了一張海報，希望在防疫期間，能夠有助於同學們提高對正確洗手和個人衛生方面的意識。

　　沒想到，同學們的反應，又讓我落下淚來……

　　小時候的世界是多姿多彩的,
　　我們擁有無窮無盡的想像力
　　和一顆天真燦爛的童心。

　　用想像力就能啟動大大的雙層巴士,
　　用視線就可以隨心所欲地和眼前的景物互動,打成一遍。
　　《去阿嬤家》的主人翁洋洋把自己想像成一個駕駛技術高超的巴士車長。
　　而去阿嬤家的過程也在他天馬行空的想像世界裡變得奇幻逗趣。

　　在新加坡兩代代人普遍分開居住的社會背景下,
　　作者也希望可以通過這個帶有本地色彩；洋溢著濃濃祖孫情溫馨小品,
　　可以讓大家了解到加强两代人的家庭凝聚力和互動的重要性。

　　好問、好學的小女孩寧寧，和她心愛的魔術小青蛙坐駁船遊新加坡河時，穿越時空回到從前。她見識到駁船運貨到海上輪船的景象，也看見了河里和岸上不同於今日的風光。河水很髒，河上有很多船，岸上有許多苦力。從前的橋和建築物有些依然存在，有些已經消失，而寧寧去的大海，現在已變成了蓄水池。這一切到底是怎麼回事呢？請和寧寧一同探索新加坡母親河的現在和從前，了解它的歷史和轉變，認識它的橋樑和建築。

　　本書是本地建築師兼作家虎威（原名黃虛懷）的最新繪本。虎威（原名黃虛懷）於2006年開始創作繪本，至今已出版“牛車水三部曲”之《外公的小房間》《三輪車跑得快》《小熊的新衣》，以及“重新探索新加坡”之《寧寧遊甘榜》《寧寧遊新加坡河》。 《小熊的新衣》入選國際權威書目“白烏鴉書選 2020”。

作者簡介

　　本地建築師兼作家虎威（原名黃虛懷）於2006年開始創作繪本，至今已出版“牛車水三部曲”之《外公的小房間》《三輪車跑得快》《小熊的新衣》，以及“重新探索新加坡”之《寧寧遊甘榜》《寧寧遊新加坡河》。 《小熊的新衣》入選國際權威書目“白烏鴉書選 2020”。

　　虎威多年來為《聯合早報》《源》寫專欄，也是新加坡教育部推廣華文學習委員會「駐校作家計劃」的作家之一。他多次受邀在新加坡作家節、新加坡閱讀節、亞洲少兒讀物節中演講，並在國家藝術理事會的「文字出遊」計劃及出版社玲子傳媒的安排下，到多所中、小學為學生們分享其繪本豐富而有趣的內容，廣受歡迎。

　　虎威早年在英國劍橋大學攻讀建築學，獲榮譽學位。其後，又往英國約克大學深造，獲保留古蹟碩士學位。曾負責我國多座公共建築的保留與修復。

Filled with evocative archival photographs and vivid snapshots of the modern city, Singapore Trails: Singapore River Walk & Jubilee Walk uncovers the island’s rich past and vibrant present via two specially curated walking trails.

This handy guidebook brings together two trails in the heart of the city: the Singapore River Walk, which traces Singapore’s path from a bustling 19th-century port to a modern city, and the Jubilee Walk, created to mark key milestones in Singapore’s nation-building as it celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence in 2015.

These storied paths take readers on a journey not simply through Singapore’s civic district, but through her rich and multifaceted past.

With this guide in hand, tourists, foreign residents, and locals alike will enjoy finding out more about Singapore on foot.

G*D IS A WOMAN

In Singapore, there is only one rule: be careful who you troll. Frustrated by the rigid, unforgiving system in which they try to make art, a bunch of irate artists start a fake petition to cancel Ariana Grande. Things get wildly out of hand when some Singaporeans take the petition so seriously that Ari’s upcoming concert comes under threat. 

In a whirlwind of competing petitions, frantic Zoom calls between Los Angeles and Singapore, and whispered conversations at the golf course, the campaign to save the concert comes up against the most powerful people in Singapore: the easily offended. 

From acclaimed playwright Joel Tan (Tartuffe: The Imposter, The Butterfly Lovers) comes G*d Is A Woman – a scathing satire on censorship, complaint culture, and the ridiculous outbursts of moral outrage that frequently reverberate across the Singaporean internet. Directed with gleeful irreverence by Ivan Heng, this audaciously funny new play will make you laugh until it hurts.

TARTUFFE: THE IMPOSTER

A wealthy family starts to unravel when the head of the household, Orgon, befriends Tartuffe — a charming, seductive con artist masquerading as a man of faith. Everyone else smells a rat, even as Tartuffe weasels his way into Orgon’s home, heart and bank account. What will it take for Orgon to finally see the light? Can unholy disaster be averted? Or will blind devotion win the day?

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth, Wild Rice’s Tartuffe: The Imposter remains trenchantly relevant today, in a world populated by scam artists and false prophets. With an incisive new script by Joel Tan and direction by Glen Goei, this is a classic satire on religious hypocrisy and a warning about the calamity that can follow when we turn a blind eye to the dark deeds of the “pious”. Desperately trying to untangle vice from virtue is a stellar ensemble cast led by Ivan Heng and Benjamin Chow.

We Saw Mountains gathers nine stories of human and non-human daring, where quotidian life is cracked open to possibilities of autonomy and re-imagination. A teen’s part-time job tests his integrity, a grieving elephant finds a new home by way of a contested river, and on an island a mountain appears, fully formed.

Through these visionary tales, Diana Rahim—whose stories have been featured in Best New Singaporean Short Stories and The Best of World SF—asks, can we do things differently? Can we imagine a different kind of life?

Step into this spellbinding collection and witness transformations both cosmic and everyday. Journey from the desert to the oasis, from drought to bloom, and return to our world with a rekindled faith in the possibility of becoming.

Winner of the PEN Translates award

From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the guerrilla forces of the Malayan Communist Party. These short stories are inspired by his experiences during his thirteen years in the rainforest.

Struggling through an arduous trek, two comrades pine for each other but don't know how to declare their love; a woman who has annoyed all her comrades finally wins their approval when she finds a mythical mousedeer; improvising around the lack of ingredients, a perpetually hungry guerrilla makes delicious cakes from cassava and elephant fat. The rainforest may be a dangerous place where death awaits, but so do love, desire and hope.

Delicious Hunger is a book about the moments in and between warfare, when hunger is so palpable it can be tasted, and the natural world becomes an extension of the body. Deftly translated by Jeremy Tiang, Hai Fan's stories are about a group of people who chose to fight for a better world and, in the process, built their own.

Winner of Best Fiction Title for Singapore Book Awards (2016)
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction (2014)
Selected by The Business Times as a Top 10 Singapore book from (1965–2015)
Shortlisted for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Internationaler Literaturpreis
Shortlisted for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s LiBeraturpreis
Longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (2014)

Meet an over-the-hill pop yé-yé singer with a faulty heart; two conservative middle- aged women holding hands in the Galápagos, and the proprietor of a Laundromat with a penchant for Cantonese songs of heartbreak. Find out the truth about racial riot fodder-girl Maria Hertogh, now living out her days as a chambermaid in Lake Tahoe; a mirage of the Merlion as a ladyboy working Orchard Towers; and a high- stakes fantasy starring the still-suave lead of the 1990s TV hit serial, The Unbeatables.

Ministry of Moral Panic is an extraordinary collection and the introduction of a revelatory new voice. Heartfelt and sexy, the stories of Amanda Lee Koe encompass a skewed world fraught with prestige anxiety, moral relativism, sexual frankness, and the improbable necessity of human connection. Told in strikingly original prose, these are stories that plough the possibilities of understanding Singapore and her denizens.

In 1953, four China-born artists who had made their home in Singapore held an exhibition titled Bali. It was a sensation. The works were inspired by their sketching trip to Java and Bali in June and July the previous year. While the exhibition is recognised as a major milestone in Singapore's art history, few details of the trip have ever been revealed. Thanks to the discovery of over 1,000 photographs taken by Liu Kang during the seven-week adventure, the chronicle of their travels can now be told. With over 250 black-and-white photographs, fleshed out by Liu Kang's private diary, letters to his wife and other archival sources, this book tells the story of an inspiring journey that left a lasting legacy on Singapore's art history. With an artist's eye, Liu Kang focused his lens on landscapes, architecture and scenes of daily life that preserve a moment in time, and captured the dignity of individuals in portraits. The painterly photographs are a time capsule of Indonesian history.

Marked by their zodiac sign, the Tiger Girls live in constant fear and anxiety, mounting their resistance against impending attacks while living in the shadows.

Behind the scenes, young Suling resentfully toils as a record-keeper, while yearning to be on the frontlines, fighting alongside her sign sisters. However, an unexpected visitor arriving at their hidden location will upend her world entirely…

“at 26—/ the earthquakes began—// tell me,/ how was I supposed to feel at home// when the ground beneath me shook so fast”

homesick is multidisciplinary artist nor’s electrifying poetry collection, an ode to the growing pains of every 20-something’s search for love and belonging. 

Spurred by desire, the journey to belonging unfolds against the backdrop of the heartbreaking now, a time and space shaped by the fantasies of pop culture and the State. But it is exactly when love feels out of reach that the revelations sneak in. To be homesick, it turns out, is also to laugh when it seems most absurd.

With a voice both tender and bold, nor takes us through the highs and lows of coming of age. Bittersweet and outrageous, homesick is a poetry debut poignant and pulsing with hope.