kampung boy

Have you read ‘Kampung Boy’?

Have you read ‘Kampung Boy’?

It’s hard to convey Lat’s standing in his own country. In 1994, he was granted the honorary title of Datuk by the Malaysian Government. His cartoons are seen regularly in the national newspaper, a film and TV series of Kampung Boy was made in 1997. Malaysia has even issued postage stamps of his Kampung Boy drawings, and AirAsia has decorated one of its Boeing 737s in his honour.

Top 10 sales for May 2010

Our top 10 bestsellers in bookshops in May were: The Bear with the Sword (1) The Red Piano (2) The Enemy (7) Piano Piano (-) A Dad Who Measures Up (8) Kampung Boy (-) Waiting for Mummy (-) Santa’s Suit (-) I Like Chocolate (4) The Goose Bath Poems (-) (*) denotes last months ranking.

Teaching kids about Asia

‘It is impossible to conceive of a future Australian education system that does not take the study of Asia seriously.’

Long may ‘Magpies’ swoop

With the mainstream media typically ignoring children’s books, to have a specialist children’s book review at all is a blessing (the CBCA’s Reading Time is another such). That Magpies uses reviewers who are knowledgeable, well-read, thoughtful and passionate makes it all the more so.

Custom Google Map showing stockists of The Red Piano by André Leblanc and Barroux

We’re now selling online

Of course, our preference is to sell books through booksellers, but that’s not always possible—while many booksellers love our books as much as we do, some simply won’t stock them no matter what we or our distributor, The Scribo Group, seem to do.