Sat 22 june – 4:30pm
CAMPUS 2 ROOM 3-09
Join us for fun-filled art and craft activities bringing stories alive ! Each workshop features a different book and will be accompanied by 15-minutes of story telling by the author. Our art workshops will guide children through colour, form and texture to create a unique keepsake for this immersive story-telling experience. No experience necessary – just a love for stories and a willingness to explore!
Jump right into Janice Khoo’s and Lianne Ong’s musical world of food and fun in Sing a Song of Hawker Food! In this workshop, pay homage to our local hawker fare and bring your favorite local dish to life from “scratch.” Ingredients provided are soft felt, clay, scissors, glue and more! The choices are endless: chicken rice, nasi lemak, roti prata… Just remember to pack it in the takeaway container and “dabao” (take away) home to enjoy!
Featured author
Janice Khoo
Janice Khoo wrote Sing a Song of Hawker Food, a collection of fractured nursery rhymes that celebrate Singapore hawker culture, where Humpty Dumpty eats kaya toast. Co-written with Lianne Ong, this book was supported by the National Heritage Board and won Second Prize, English (Children’s Category) in the POPULAR Reader’s Choice Awards 2022.
In 2024, she surprised herself with the release of not one but two children’s picture books. Shelby and Mona is a whimsical tale of a snail and a butterfly who hang on to their friendship when Mona transforms from a caterpillar to a butterfly. The Emperor’s Gazillion New Toys features a boy emperor who indulges in toy after toy, at the expense of the environment. It is co-written with Lianne Ong and part of a series of fractured fairytales with an environmental twist, and supported by the SG Eco Fund.
Janice lives in Singapore with her husband and two children where they feast on hawker food regularly.
Lianne Ong
Lianne Ong, an editor and award-winning children’s author, has published 18 picture books. Best known for “Stacey & the Museums” and “A Place for Us,” she won second prize in the POPULAR Reader’s Choice Awards (Children’s Category) in 2022 for “Sing A Song of Hawker Food.” This year, she’s excited to launch two new books on rough sleeping in Singapore, “The Uncle Downstairs” and an environmental fractured fairy tale, “The Emperor’s Gazillion New Toys”.
Singapore Children's Book Festival 
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