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I’ve never joined any book giveaways, mostly because most of them are limited to US or Canadian entries. Interestingly, Bibliofreak’s blogiversary giveaway was open to international participants.
So I joined. And I won!
From the list of 21 books, here are the 3 titles I gave for the ONE book I’ll be winning:
Everything Sucks: Losing My Mind [...]
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Anyone who has read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” must definitely read this memoir of a 13 year old Hungarian Jewish girl, Elli Friedmann, who survived the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz with her mother.
While “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” records the events of the Holocaust from a young [...]
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Kids who grew up watching Laura, Mary, baby Carrie and their Ma, Caroline and Pa, Charles of the 1980s TV series “The Little House on the Prairie” starring Melissa Gilbert will definitely enjoy reading this book, written by Laura herself.
I bought this full-colour collector’s edition from Borders at RM32.90 – a treasure because almost every [...]
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I won this book from Angeleyes’ giveaway last year and received the book and Harambe the hippo plush toy for Christmas! Thank you for hosting the contest
“Sikulu and Harambe: By The Zambezi River” is an African version of the Good Samaritan Story where two animals, a spider (Sikulu) and a hippo (Harambe) are [...]
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Eddie Wing is a second generation Chinese boy (possibly living in Chinatown of San Francisco?). He’s crazy over kites but his parents, who own a flower stall, can’t afford to indulge him in his favourite hobby.
This doesn’t stop Eddie from flying an imaginary “kite” on the top of the city’s highest hills or watching [...]
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Being stuck in China with little access to affordable English books has made me appreciate e-books!
Here’s another nice read from the Philippines for preschool or primary-age children. “The Black Kitten” is about a highly-innovative kitten who discovers the power of public speaking.
I enjoyed reading this book because the storyline was entertaining (and funny), the illustrations [...]
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Boy, was I horrified (again!) when my toddler and I went through this set of picture cum colouring books!
Before our move to China and because I can’t read/write Chinese, I’ve never visited the Chinese book section. My first encounter with Chinese picture books was a “stunning” one as a gun and a rifle are [...]
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“Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcasts in Communist China. Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his family’s ‘crimes’, he could never be more than a poor farmer…
China’s Cultural Revolution took place from [...]
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