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By: Aline Pereira,
on 3/15/2011
Press Release:
One of the objectives of the AFCC (The Asian Festival of Children’s Content) is to bring children’s writers in Africa and Asia together.
A delegation of artists (including children’s book writers from the Asian Storytelling Network), students and business people will be in Cape Town, South Africa from 16th-20th Mar 2011 for a festival called Spotlight Singapore organized by The Arts House in Singapore together with support from organizations in Cape Town.
The Program for Children’s Writers includes:
The Journey of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Understand Cultural Diversity in Singapore & South Africa. Rosemarie Somaiah and Marjorie Van Heerden
Sayang Singapore: Building Bridges in and for Singapore – a look at how individuals and organizations have used children’s books to build bridges in a multi-racial, multi-cultural society. Rosemarie Somaiah
My Journey with Children’s Books: Some Personal Reminiscences – a look at how the style and content of children’s books have changed over the past 50 years and how that influenced my own work. Marjorie Van Heerden
Sharing Stories with Children. Rosemarie Somaiah
The Book and the Buzz: An Open Sharing of How Life Experience Can be Turned into Fiction. Rosemarie Somaiah and Helen Brain
Launch of a poetry anthology, Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore - featuring contemporary Singaporean writers. Luminary Singaporean poet, Edwin Thumboo, will be in attendance.
Any inquiries please contact rama(at)bookcouncil(dot)sg or Re Storm (South African coordinator)at re(at)raintree(dot)co(dot)za
By: Aline Pereira,
on 5/24/2010
The last booth Aline, Marjorie and I visited at the 2010 Bologna Book Fair belonged to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and what a way to end the fair! We had an absolute blast visiting with the SCBWI members, some of whom we had corresponded with via email before but had never met in person: and we were in for a couple of surprises too. SCBWI members not only share the same passion for children’s literature as we do at PaperTigers but in two cases share the same first name! Here’s a special shout out about several of the SCBWI members who made us feel so welcome and took the time to share their work with us.
PaperTigers’ Marjorie (in green) with Marjorie van Heerden, co-Regional Advisor SCBWI South Africa.
Marjorie van Heerden has written and/or illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has been published in 33 languages in Africa, Europe, Canada and the USA. In 2008 Marjorie won the M.E.R Award for best South African illustrated children’s book.
PaperTigers’ Corinne (in pink) with Corinne Fenton, Assistant Regional Adviser SCBWI Victoria, Australia.
Corinne Fenton’s classic award-winning picture book Queenie: One Elephant’s Story was followed in 2008 by The Dog on the Tuckerbox (shortlisted in the Younger Readers Category of the Australian Book Industry Awards and named a Notable Book in both the Picture Book and Eve Pownall Information Book categories of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards for 2009. Her latest book Flame Stands Waiting was released in March 2010.
Yoko Yoshizawa, Assistant Regional Advisor SCBWI Tokyo
