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Ju Chen A cheerful little boy who loves adventure and is mad about Chinese culture. In this book, Little Jack travels back in time to find himself...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 9 and above Shortlisted for the Red Dot Awards 2020-2021 (Younger ...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Adventure-loving Sing and her enormous family are back in this sequel to The House on Palmer Ro...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator It is 1930s Singapore and war is raging in China and Europe. But for eight-year-old Sing and he...

Description About the Authors  Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.How can people thrive as th...

Grandma Pat is going to introduce you to colourful festival that we celebrate in Singapore. Our Muslim friends go to the mosque and celebrate this ...

"Twenty-two stories in the volume, and this is how the tally stands country-wise: one each from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and Pakistan...

Rawa is the name of the island and its waters. Rawa is the wind. It is also the name he has lived with for seventy years. He is Rawa, in name and e...

1819. That was the year Stamford Raffles landed at South Point and founded Singapore. It was also the year that the famous Muslim saint Habib Nuh c...

Description Chapteh, congkak, hopscotch and five stones..Do these names ring a bell? This book takes you back in time to the 1950s and 1960s fo...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Who is that hiding on top of the tree? Could it be... a squirrel? Join Candy on her adventures ...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Candy has three new siblings... and she wants to help! As you flip through the pages and the fl...

While flipping through Grandpa's photo album of his childhood days, Aloysius and Grandpa are magically transported to 1900s Singapore. Aloysius, ha...

Description About the Author “Perhaps I will write about my own life as a blind person," Choon Guan said. "I'll entitle it My Love Is Blind. Th...

Description Here, in beautiful Singapore, we live in harmony. Regardless of our different races, religions and customs, we are able to grow and...

Description About the Author & Illustrator In 1915, Han Wai Toon left Hainan Island to seek his fortune in Singapore. Through hard work, se...

Winner of POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award 2011, English (Adult) The title of this book was inspired by a song written back in the 1940s and performed...

‘ Singapore in the 60s” is a personal recollection of experiences seen through the eyes of the author James Suresh who grew up in a rented flat in ...

Set in a Singaporean housing estate, Gone Case is a moving yet unsentimental coming-of-age story. Yong, a 12-year-old boy has to deal with the drea...

Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi was a man who fought valiantly to defend Singapore during the Japanese invasion in February 1942. He, along with the res...

Description About the Author This is the first ever fundraising book written and published by a local Singaporean. This guide is the ultimate s...

Description About the Author The K-Book by Mr Kenneth Kam, successful trader-entrepreneur, philanthropist, and life mentor, depicts the life ad...

Description Praise About the Author Martin See Tho was 32 when he became a wheel-chair bound victim of Machado Joseph Disease, an incurable deg...

Description About the Editor Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA) 50th Anniversary Publication Cover Stories: 50 Years of Books in Sing...

Description About the Author On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over t...

Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritim...

Description About the Author Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by i...

Description About the Author As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Y...

Description About the Editors Singapore is a mythic nation, where our ‘reality’ and ‘common sense’ are conditioned by a group of influential my...

Description About the Author Giving Alms gifts us three short stories based on the narratives of the people of Myanmar. Carefully revealing the...

Description 'Tarawih’ (Arabic) comes from the root word that means to take a rest, and take rest I did. Notes After Terawih is a series of word...

Description “I stand and face the sea, as the waves come crashing to the shore, the music of the sea is thunderous and loud. Yet I am unafraid,...

Description About the Author Vital Possessions by Marc Nair contemplates how city-dwellers negotiate their uneasy relationship with nature in a...

Description About the Author "Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A…"  17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years...

This extraordinary volume provides unexpectedly heart-warming and heart-breaking insights into the interior lives and thoughts of SMU business grad...

Description Praise About the Editors This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a man of medicine and a founder member of the People’s A...

Description The survivors of Operation Spectrum—which saw the detention of several people who were allegedly part of a Marxist conspiracy—speak...

Description About the Author Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Elizabeth Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chine...

Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description Praise About the Author The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many...

Description This book is much more than a round-up of Singapore's new urban cityscapes. Rather, it traces the development of the city-state, sh...

Description About the Author Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and is among the most competitive a...

Description This book traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the presen...

The Singapore shophouse is an architectural gem - a particular building form that is unique to the island. This book traces its development from ru...

This box contains 12 delightful notecards depicting 12 landmark sites in Singapore. Painted by Graham Byfield, each has been chosen for its histori...

Description About the Author The vocabulary and sentence structures have been kept simple so that the stories can be enjoyed without too much h...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Memories of Chinatown is a Singapore classic and is now republished with a new visual interpreta...