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Description About the Author The residents of Block 204 have a few months before their building is torn down, before they are scattered through...

Description About the Author & Illustrator A fully-illustrated, sharply-curated book on modern epidemics to arm young readers with easily d...

Description With the completion and opening of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore’s skyline has been transformed. The iconic form of the three towers—...

Description Native orchids have grown freely on roadside trees in Singapore for centuries and the Singapore Botanic Gardens has cultivated many...

Description The Peranakan Association Singapore Being Baba presents selected articles on Peranakan culture through the eyes of contributors to ...

Description In the Gardens by the Bay...within the two soaring domes...deep in the night...the flowers reveal their secrets... In collaboration...

First published in 1980 as a collection of 10 titles, and subsequently translated into Chinese and Malay, and exported to America, The Adventures o...

Description About the Author The tiny island of Pulau Ubin, located off the northeast coast of mainland Singapore, is one of the last rural are...

Description About the Illustrator As Singapore continues to undergo intensive restructuring and makeovers, and heritage buildings of yesteryear...

Description About the Author With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique and significant place...

Description About the Author Botanical Singapore is a collection of watercolor and pencil illustrations of commonly seen plants and flowers. Ex...

Description Singapore’s resident bird population, together with the many migratory species that visit seasonally, are one of the most picturesq...

Description About the Author This tiny, humid island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula was once a forest-covered Garden of Eden. The majority o...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

Description About the Author Kidz Explore Singapore is probably the first travel guide to be fully written by children. The team, whose ages ra...

Description About the Author Something made me look from the amahs to the frangipani tree in the corner. And there she was – Ying. I shivered. ...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Welcome to Singapore — a "little red dot" right near the equator; a small melting pot! From the ...

Description About the Author What happens when you wish upon a star? Do dreams really come true? Is there gold to be found at the end of every ...

Description About the Author What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, th...

Description About the Series Praise About the Author & Illustrator Timid artist Nadia is in awe of her new teammate. Priya’s a gamer, she’s...

Description About the Illustrator 🎁 Recommended for ages 7 and above Look inside the book Join best friends Zulkifli, Priya, Jing Kai and Julai...

Description About the Illustrator 🎁 Recommended for ages 7 and above Look inside the book Join best friends Zulkifli, Priya, Jing Kai and Julai...

Description About the Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 7 and above Look inside the book Join best friends Zulkifli, Priya, Jing Kai and Jula...

Description About the Author & Illustrator 🎁 Recommended for ages 3 and above Get the E-book     Look inside the book Little Mynah wishes s...

Description About the Author Swan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 189...

Description Praise About the Editor In this era of the climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imper...

Description Praise About the Author This new edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the aut...

Description About the Poet Edwin Thumboo, one of Singapore’s pioneering literary voices, brings his incisive awareness of socio-cultural histor...

Right in the heart of the Civic district, National Gallery Singapore occupies the neoclassical City Hall and former Supreme Court, two buildings th...

Be warned, mothers should not read these stories to their children, even though they might contain a lonely elf, a talking moon, a butterfly that w...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbr...

Description About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

"A true disciple is filial; has fraternal love; is vigilant and trustworthy; cares for the community; seeks the company of the virtuous, and pursue...

Description About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Raffles Hotel is the best-known, oldest and most elegant hotel in Singapore. But is that all th...

Description About the Author This collection contains the latest works from Cultural Medallion recipient Prof Edwin Thumboo. Of note are the po...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator Look inside the book Mr Tino is a 66-year-old sundry store owner, a devoted husband to h...

Description The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established...

Description About the Author This is Josephine's first Children's novel for mid-graders. Amelia is a modern nine-year-old Peranakan Chinese gir...

Description About the Author The truth of her own origins, as well as the deep, dark secret that enveloped the lives of her parents will change...

Description What are the issues which one would consider important for a country? This is a question most citizens would ask as they head into ...

Description About the Author “Kevin Kwan’s new book is his most decadent yet.” —Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phen...

Description Authors On 15 November 1943, Elizabeth Choy Su-Moi was arrested for her suspected involvement in the anti-Japanese Operation Jaywic...

For Singaporeans, the year 2015 will be remembered for its grand celebrations of the nation’s 50th year of independence (SG50), as well as the demi...

In the electrifying months leading up to the watershed 2011 General Elections and in the tumultuous months after, playwright Alfian Sa’at interview...