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Panjang is the tallest kid around. He hates standing out, but little does he know, he's on his way to greater heights...This book tells the childhood story of Singapore's second prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, and how he conquered his self-consciousness to become a leader. This "tall" tale inspires children to embrace the things that make them different.

Panjang is the tallest kid around. He hates standing out, but little does he know, he's on his way to greater heights...This book tells the childhood story of Singapore's second prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, and how he conquered his self-consciousness to become a leader. This "tall" tale inspires children to embrace the things that make them different.

Meet Siti Hasmah, a little girl, who wants to be a journalist, in a period when not every girl was sent to school. Watch what happens to her, her family, and country when World War II strikes. Walk in her footsteps as she graduates from university and goes on to save the lives of many Malaysian women and children. See what she finally ends up becoming.The Woman Who Shaped Asia series aim not just to educate but also to motivate. These stories celebrate the amazing accomplishments of women from the region. Their remarkable strength in the face of adversity and sheer determination make it possible for their dreams to be fulfilled, no matter how big! They remind our young readers that great things are accomplished by people who were once little, just like them.Related Link(s)

Your home is the perfect place for learning, fun, and sibling bonding!The Happy Learning Book for Siblings features 50 hands-on activities you can conduct in the comfort of your home. They are divided into five learning areas (Literacy, Numeracy, Discovery of the World, Motor Skills and Sensory Play, Arts and Crafts), and are scaled for children of different ages to experience together. Spark hours of joyful learning and playful moments for your children, from toddlers to preschoolers and school-aged kids!

Quantum physics and relativity, two of the most important advances in modern science, are normally presented as a series of technical discoveries in 20th century Europe.Yet this brief, easy-to-read volume shows how they were underpinned by centuries of observations about the nature of reality from the great philosophies and faiths of humanity, from China to India to the Middle East.At each stage, the people involved found themselves saying: "That's impossible! That makes no sense. And yet..."

The worlds of nursery rhymes and Singapore hawker food collide in this book. Dive into fractured nursery rhymes with a local twist, featuring Singapore hawker food.Imagine Humpty Dumpty enjoying kaya toast, Jack and Jill grilling satay on a hill and the three blind mice eating chicken rice at the hawker centre. Wouldn't that be a funny sight?Cheeky illustrations highlight aspects of Singapore hawker culture that children will have fun identifying. Young readers (and not so young ones) can sing or read these hawker food rhymes and follow the familiar rhythms, while naming the well-loved hawker fare that appear in the rhymes.

Meet the Tan family, who have created a homemade Peranakan food legacy in Singapore!Join the fourth generation member of the family, Ethan, as he travels back in time tracing the evolution of his family business — home-grown brand HarriAnns Nonya Table — from a humble push-cart to the chain of Peranakan cafes it is today. Just like Peranakan food, this story is spiced generously with the different flavours of life.Come join the feast!

Science Discovery Files: 10 Forgotten Stories of Incredible Scientists tells real stories of scientific discoveries that you cannot find in textbooks or popular science books. The scientists featured are a diverse group, from female Chinese chemist Tu Youyou to William Beaumont and his handicapped assistant Alexis St. Martin, who helped pioneer studies into the human digestive system. Going beyond history, readers can also learn about the science principles behind each discovery! The backmatter includes additional information and further reading for curious readers.Scientists featured:This book is a 2023 Nautilus Book Awards winner.

Everyone loves Sophie!Get ready to explore a variety of creative, play and cooking-based tales in this unique combination of storybook and cookbook. Specially designed to stimulate curiosity through sensory play, this book is filled with delicious recipes, hands-on activities, bold illustrations and engaging stories.Sensory play allows young children to make connections as they explore the world around them using their five senses. Each of the six stories includes an activity and Asian-inspired recipes intended to ignite the senses and inspire hours memorable playtime.Read, cook and play with Sophie!What's inside:

A short, short time to come, in a galaxy very much like our own, a small planet struggles to survive the Great Storm. The apocalyptic event of the millennia has cut the Earth's population to a third and divided the surviving populations into three pockets. From here rise our protagonists: Sha, a spunky young woman with a bright future and a traumatised past; Niel, the surviving brother of a set of twins who has hidden inner powers and Ral-D, a tortured half man, half robot who yearns redemption. What they're looking for is the Amazing Brain. This is their adventure... and yours!Is the Amazing Brain just a figment of the survivor's imagination or are there true secrets to mastering mindfulness? Here is a book that presents mindfulness techniques through comic storytelling meant for the young and the young at heart.

Toys or Physics?: Explaining Physics Through Toys was awarded the 2024 Nautilus Silver award for 'Middle Grade Non-Fiction, Ages 8–12'.Are you ready for a journey of discovery? Let's go!This eye-opening book will amaze young readers and spark their interest in physics. With full-colour illustrations and simple-to-read explanations, Toys or Physics? examines well-loved toys and games, and breaks down essential physics concepts through fun and play.

Magic or science? Toys or physics? Have you ever looked at an object or trick and wondered what the science behind it is?In Magic or Science?, Magicians pull off fantastic feats: Levitating a meter above the ground, charming a snake with a flute, finding lost objects with the help of a pendulum, swallowing a sword or walking on embers ... But how do they do it? Is it magic or is it science? Learn to question and discover how science can explain most of the secrets surrounding these amazing wonders.Get ready to move to the other side of the mirror!Toys or Physics? will amaze young readers and spark their interest in physics. With full-colour illustrations and simple-to-read explanations, Toys or Physics? examines well-loved toys and games, and breaks down essential physics concepts through fun and play.This book is for three groups of people:

Buckle up, because you're about to go on an epic adventure with identical twins, Amber and Blue, and their feathered friend, Chirp!Together, they are going on a quest to find — and understand — DNA. Shrink down smaller than a speck of dust and zoom through the human body to meet a cast of characters crazier than anything you've ever seen!This isn't just any science book, it's a laugh-out-loud, page-turning adventure that will make you fall in love with the wacky world inside every living thing!So grab your lab coat and get ready to:Ready to embark on this mind-blowing journey? Let the adventure begin!

Buckle up, because you're about to go on an epic adventure with identical twins, Amber and Blue, and their feathered friend, Chirp!Together, they are going on a quest to find — and understand — DNA. Shrink down smaller than a speck of dust and zoom through the human body to meet a cast of characters crazier than anything you've ever seen!This isn't just any science book, it's a laugh-out-loud, page-turning adventure that will make you fall in love with the wacky world inside every living thing!So grab your lab coat and get ready to:Ready to embark on this mind-blowing journey? Let the adventure begin!

Did You Hear That? Help for Children Who Hear Voices is about five very different children who share one thing in common — hearing voices and seeing things that are not there.Susie is a 9-year-old who keeps her challenges with auditory and visual hallucinations a secret until a teacher alerts her parents of her difficulties at school. With compassion, empathy, love and understanding, Susie's parents encourage her to see a counselor. Susie builds trust and rapport with her counselor, which finally allows her to share her well-guarded secret. After divulging what has been troubling her for years, with her counselor's help, she discovers that she is not the only one in the world who struggles with voices.Susie then introduces readers to four other children of different ethnicities, ages, backgrounds, talents and interests who also hear voices. All of the children share with readers their challenges with voices and personal life circumstances that contributed to them hearing voices. Then they go on to speak about their personal choices regarding what role they want voices to have in their lives and how counselors helped them achieve their individual goals.Did You Hear That? is a beautifully illustrated practical therapeutic storybook for psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners treating children with auditory and visual hallucinations. While it normalizes the experience and assists children in seeking professional help, it is also an easy to understand and user-friendly guide for concerned parents, teachers, pediatricians and allied health professionals.

Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was the first human, anyway?Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered remarkable true tales:And dozens more remarkable true stories.The result is a fun story collection about the origins of a huge range of things — which also introduces young readers to the art and science of academic research. In these times of fake news, information overload, and too much homework, the ability to conduct fast, accurate research is one of the best skills any student can have — and you can learn it in these pages.

What was there before the Big Bang? Are researchers ordinary people just like everyone else? What will physicists do when they've discovered what's inside particles? Do particles grow when we grow? Does space go on forever? What's inside a black hole?In 2014, CERN launched an art competition for local primary schools where 50 children were given the opportunity to ask a physicist anything they wanted. The result is a fascinating journey into physics. It is designed to enable primary school teachers and their classes, as well as parents keen to share in their child's discovery of the world, to discuss these questions and explore the answers together.Through their questions and artwork, the universe unfolds to the most curious among us...

Fearless Frosty tells the tale of New Zealander Anna Frost and how she chased her dream to become a professional mountain runner."Whatever it is, go after it.Find the thing that makes you fly!Because one thing is for certain:You'll never know unless you try."SisuGirls is a global movement encouraging girls to step into themselves through sport and adventure. Sisu is a Finnish term for determination, bravery and resilience. We want all girls to have the self-belief and conviction to try new things, the tenacity to endure, and the bravery to push boundaries. We want girls to discover the outdoors, adventure and sports. Not always to compete, but to be involved, be active and most importantly to learn about themselves and others. We want girls to develop strong foundations of confidence, so they have the self-belief to follow their dreams, with sisu.Fearless Frosty is the first book in our collection of stories about fearless females.

We all like to win. But what exactly does it mean to win in life and how can we win ... and win with Honour?The purpose of this book is to invite you and your child to think about what "winning in life" actually means. What is success? How do you define success? What makes for a successful life?This is particularly important in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). In a fast-changing world, there are no "maps" because no one has gone that way before. When there are no "maps", we need a good inner "compass" to guide us in life — this "compass" comprises the values that make us better human beings.The right values will also prepare your child for the world of big data and digitalization. To survive and thrive in this world, your child must not only excel at technology, but also at humanity because after total efficiency is achieved via technology, the value of any business or organisation will be contingent on human and other non-digitalisable elements such as purpose and empathy.May you and your child win in life with Honour!

We all like to win. But what exactly does it mean to win in life and how can we win ... and win with Honour?The purpose of this book is to invite you and your child to think about what 'winning in life' actually means. What is success? How do you define success? What makes for a successful life?This is particularly important in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA). In a fast-changing world, there are no 'maps' because no one has gone that way before. When there are no 'maps', we need a good inner 'compass' to guide us in life - this 'compass' comprises the values that make us better human beings.The right values will also prepare your child for the world of big data and digitalization. To survive and thrive in this world, your child must not only excel at technology, but also at humanity because after total efficiency is achieved via technology, the value of any business or organisation will be contingent on human and other non-digitalisable elements such as purpose and empathy.May you and your child win in life with Honour!

Quantum physics and relativity, two of the most important advances in modern science, are normally presented as a series of technical discoveries in 20th century Europe.Yet this brief, easy-to-read volume shows how they were underpinned by centuries of observations about the nature of reality from the great philosophies and faiths of humanity, from China to India to the Middle East.At each stage, the people involved found themselves saying: "That's impossible! That makes no sense. And yet..."

Meet the Tan family, who have created a homemade Peranakan food legacy in Singapore!Join the fourth generation member of the family, Ethan, as he travels back in time tracing the evolution of his family business — home-grown brand HarriAnns Nonya Table — from a humble push-cart to the chain of Peranakan cafes it is today. Just like Peranakan food, this story is spiced generously with the different flavours of life.Come join the feast!

A short, short time to come, in a galaxy very much like our own, a small planet struggles to survive the Great Storm. The apocalyptic event of the millennia has cut the Earth's population to a third and divided the surviving populations into three pockets. From here rise our protagonists: Sha, a spunky young woman with a bright future and a traumatised past; Niel, the surviving brother of a set of twins who has hidden inner powers and Ral-D, a tortured half man, half robot who yearns redemption. What they're looking for is the Amazing Brain. This is their adventure... and yours!Is the Amazing Brain just a figment of the survivor's imagination or are there true secrets to mastering mindfulness? Here is a book that presents mindfulness techniques through comic storytelling meant for the young and the young at heart.

Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures — some are young people, and many are female.