Author: Michelle Lowbeer Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited ISBN: 9789814779463 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
-Features 30 beautiful and engaging illustrations -Provides an introduction to interesting places and activities in Singapore -A handy gift for both locals and visitors -Includes unusual places such as the Dragon Kiln and the Yueh Hai Ching Temple
Author: Alicia Z. Klepeis Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 150264357X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Described as both a concrete jungle and the Garden City, this book offers an interesting introduction to the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Singapore. With colorful photographs, fun facts, and engaging sidebars, young readers will explore this dynamic nation's government, language, economy, and more. Other interesting topics include popular foods, sports, holidays, and the arts. This book will give kids the opportunity to understand what it's like living in Singapore today, and it is sure to spark their curiosity about the world and its many cultures.
Author: Melanie Lee Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN: 9814868361 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 67
Book Description
With Out & About in Singapore, young readers get to go on a fun and colourful tour around this bustling Southeast Asian city through the evocative hand-drawn illustrations of Singaporean artist William Sim. The book starts out with Singapore’s origin story, followed by captivating “tours” around the Civic District, Chinatown, Kampong Glam and Little India. Popular spots such as Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Sentosa and Gardens by the Bay are explored as well. Lesser-known kid-friendly destinations such as Haw Par Villa and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum are also highlighted. In the midst of exploring all these fascinating attractions, readers will also gain insights into the culture and history of Singapore for a deeper understanding of this country. Some related craft activities are thrown in as well just for the fun of it! This book is for children between 7 and 12 years old.
Author: Diane Taylor Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462908497 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Singaporean fairy tales and other folk stories--providing insight into a rich literary and oral culture. Singapore Children's Favorite Stories is a collection of eleven stories that provide an insight into the traditional culture and history of Singapore. They make perfect new additions for story time or bedtime reading. Retold by Diane Taylor for an international audience, the whimsical watercolor illustrations by Lak-Khee Tay-Audouard offer insight into Singapore's multicultural past and present, as well as its colonial roots. The famous story of the tiger under the billiard table at the Raffles Hotel is retold, as is the myth of how the name "Singapore" (Lion City) came about. Magical princesses, mermaids, tigers, pirates and buffalos compete for every child's attention. Singapore Children's Stories include: Queen of the Forest Vanished! The Pirates of Riau The Magical Princess The Children's Favorite Stories series was created to share the folktales and legends most beloved by children in the East with young readers of all backgrounds in the West. Other multicultural children's books in this series include: Asian Children's Favorite Stories, Indian Children's Favorite Stories, Indonesian Children's Favorite Stories, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Filipino Favorite Children's Stories, Favorite Children's Stories from China & Tibet, Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, Korean Children's Favorite Stories, Balinese Children's Favorite Stories, and Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bodies of water Languages : en Pages : 120
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It documents the development of the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme and illustrates the potential of Singapore's blue spaces as environmental assets to enhance the liveability of urban environments.
Author: Don Bosco Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) ISBN: 9789814634342 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book for young ones aged from 8 to 11 makes learning fun. Using the concept of explorers out on an adventure, readers get to explore the places while learning new things and solving a series of challenges along the way. Each destination includes a location map, an introduction to the history of the place as well as fun facts about the people, neighborhood, food, events and legends. As an activity book, readers can discover fun puzzles, learn new words and take part in solving the mystery challenges. There are also directions and prompts to introduce them to keeping a journal and doing simple sketches.
Author: Raffaella Sini Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811367469 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 381
Book Description
This book traces the evolution of Singapore’s parks system, from colonial to present times. Further, it contextualizes the design and planning of parks in the general discourse on western and eastern traditions: early twentieth century western conceptions ‘imported’ during colonialism; modernism; postmodernism, and the contemporary ecological debate. Park system planning products respond to national policies and result in structural urban elements and a range of park types. Global (western ideology) and local issues have influenced park system planning and the physical design of individual parks over time. However, in Singapore the eastern literature has not addressed the development of parks and urban green spaces in terms of historical perspective. The publication reveals the interrelations between visual representations and changing political ideologies. Singapore’s system of public parks is shown to represent an iconography created by the state. Its set of constructed narratives elucidates on the potential social, cultural and environmental roles of public parks. However, Singapore’s park system presents a novel paradigm for expanding Asian cities, characterized by evolving urban imaging strategies. In framing Singapore’s case study within the broader perspective of eastern applications of western planning and design practices, and constructions of nation in post-colonial countries, the manuscript establishes the contribution of the Singaporean model of design and planning of parks to the international debate.
Author: Pippa Chorley Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN: 9814928313 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Come along with Ling and Kamal on an island-wide adventure as they play their favourite game, Eye Spy Singapore! Learn incredible facts about the Garden City and uncover hidden treasures all across the island. Bursting with colourful scenes from around Singapore, this interactive look-and-find book will provide hours of problem-solving, puzzle fun. Children will enjoy exploring the illustrations, picking out and counting the objects, while developing skills in numeracy, reading, matching and identification.
Author: Duane Michals Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC ISBN: 1580934056 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 185
Book Description
The legendary photographer relates intimate themes of his life and art in a scrapbook memoir illustrated by his works—from portraits of Magritte to Warhol, to painted tintypes, and the revolutionary multiple-image sequences and handwritten texts for which he is best known—and by pieces from his personal art collection, now donated to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. Whether a portrait of Eugène Atget by Berenice Abbott, collages by Joseph Cornell, or drawings by David Hockney, the works of Michals’s artistic lodestars sit alongside his own haunting images—some never-before-published—and his mordantly funny, playful, humble, and heartbreaking observations on art, photography, and life—revealing the creative obsessions of a uniquely beloved artist. The images and texts by Duane Michals assembled here are, like the artist himself—impossible to categorize; perhaps there is no better way to organize them than alphabetically. Whether recalling encounters with many of the past century’s most illustrious artists (Balthus, Duchamp), celebrating literary heroes (Whitman, Joyce), addressing essential human concerns (Grief, Children’s Stories, Homosexuality, God), or revealing deeply personal snippets of life with a partner suffering from dementia (Fred Said)—ABCDuane is a creative autobiography and the perfect primer for Michals’s vastly influential body of work—both for those who have loved it for the past half-century, and those being delighted by it for the first time.
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