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Christopher Cheng is an Australian children’s author with more than 40 traditionally published books, including picture books, historical fiction and non-fiction titles.

He is publihsed globally and his books have won multiple awards. He is also a member of the SCBWI international Advisory Council and past Co-Chair.

Chris will be sharing his immense wealth of knowledge on research and approach to writing his titles gathered over many years as a children’s author and his own directive when working with illustrators… leave them room. Please note that the event will not be recorded.

Date: 27th of October, 12:00 PM CET

#kidlit #childrensbooks #scbwievents #scbwievent #scbwiicr #scbwi

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Here are my #8brilliantbooks for East and South East Asian Heritage Month

The Kingdom of Tigers
✏️ @felicityyeohauthor
🎨 @megan.snyders
🖨️ @harpercollinsch

Chi Chi the Panda
✏️ @maisiechanwrites
🎨 @jolindleydraws
🖨️ @hachettechildrens

Stories of the Islands
✏️🎨 @clarangkasa

Land of the Last Wildcat
✏️ @lui.land
🖨️ @macmillankidsuk

The Lucky House Detective Agency
✏️ @lui.land

Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow’s Great Race
✏️ @erichuangbooks
🎨 @phung.nguyenquang
🖨️ @littletigerbooks

Anzu and the Realm of Darkness
🖨️ @piccadilly.press

Powerful Like a Dragon
✏️ @christophercheng_author
🎨 @jacquelinetam_
🖨️ @macmillankidsuk

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What a gorgeous morning with @christophercheng_author, who read Dragon Folding and Powerful like a Dragon, before making some marvellous origami 🌹🐉

Story Time takes place every Thursday and Saturday at 10am, and often features local authors.

#therosereadbookshop #roseread #storytime #christophercheng #dragonfolding

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Presenting my top 10 choices for @abcradionational’s Top 100 Australian Books Countdown.

Nearly every literary award and bookish competition platforms adult choices and voices.

Many adult readers are readers because they were children who developed the habit of reading and love for books.

Narrowing it down to 10 was HARD but my shortlist includes books that my own children have LOVED and books that have resonated with my students. There is an obvious nostalgic choice from my teen years and my final choice, well, how could I not?

Thank you to all the Aussie authors and illustrators who are busting their guts, creating the books that turn our young readers into lifelong readers.

With fewer and fewer children reading for leisure, we need to look for innovative ways to create conversations with children about who they are as readers and what books they enjoy. We need to find ways to signal to kids - WE ARE READERS HERE.

Chat to your young readers. Help them create a shortlist. Vote!
Voting is open until 7pm October 1.

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When our eldest started becoming fascinated with dragons, we looked for picture books in our library and discovered this tender story for us to read together.

In this story, our eldest gets to meet a young boy Evan and his elderly neighbour Mr Singer who leads a lonely life. Having lost his wife, Mr Singer loses the colourful life they shared in their home, the Dragon Hall, which was once a magical place for Evan and the neighbours.

One day, Evan visits Mr Singer to rediscover their joy of folding paper dragons together. This helps Mr Singer slowly transform his grey life and reconnect with Evan and the neighbours as The Dragon Hall is filled with colour, laughter, dragons and magic once again.

Our eldest was instantly drawn to this story when we read it together. He loved the friendship between Evan and Mr Singer and how they made paper dragons together. He also loved how the grey illustrations gently change as colours beautifully enter Mr Singer’s world again. It was rather magical to watch as Evan and the dragons reappear in Mr Singer’s life, so do the colours.

A moving story about the magic of friendship (and dragons) in bringing people together.

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📚Bugünün Kitabı: Her Zaman Yanında Olacağım 🐼🐭
Yazan: Christopher Cheng

Bu kitabı okumayı seviyorum. Hem kendim okumayı hem de Yiğit'e okumayı… 🥹 Bazı kitaplar vardır, çocuklar için yazılmıştır ama okurken yetişkinlerin kalbine de usulca dokunur. Bence bu kitap tam olarak onlardan biri. Özellikle okul öncesi dönemde sevgi, güven, dostluk ve ayrılık gibi büyük duygular üzerine konuşmak için çok kıymetli. 🥹🩷

Fare ve Panda bir gün el ele yürürken Fare'nin aklına bir soru takılıyor.
“Acaba hep böyle yürüyebilecek miyiz?” diye soruyor. “Yaşlanıp kırış kırış olduğumuzda bile, düşe kalka şu tepeye tırmanırken el ele olmaya devam edecek miyiz?”

Panda'nın cevabı hiç düşünmeden geliyor:
“Elbette.” ✨

Yıllar geçse, kürkü kırlaşsa, tüyleri dökülse bile… Fare onun elini tutmaya devam ettiği sürece, Panda da onun elini bırakmayacak.
Fare bununla da yetinmiyor tabii. 🥹

Birlikte yaşlanmaktan korktuğu gibi, hayatın karşısına çıkarabileceği başka şeyleri de merak ediyor.

“Peki ürkütücü bir hikâye okurken elimden tutar mısın?”Panda, Fare sayfaları çevirdiği sürece elini tutacağını söylüyor. ✨

“Peki uykum geldiğinde?”
Fare horul horul uyusa bile Panda'nın eli onun elinde olacak. 🥹

“Ya geçmemiz gereken derin bir nehir olursa?”
Bu kez Panda, nehir çok derinse Fare'yi omuzlarında taşıyacağını söylüyor. ✨

“Ya ormanın çok uzaklarına gitmem gerekirse ve günlerce dönemezsem?”
Panda'nın cevabı yine hazır: Onunla birlikte gidecek, hem elini tutacak hem de sepetini taşıyacak. ✨

Fare'nin soruları devam ediyor. Ya düşüp yaralanırsa? Ya haftalarca yataktan çıkamazsa?
Panda o zaman da onu yalnız bırakmayacağını söylüyor. Evde kalacak, ona yemek yapacak, yarasını saracak ve yatağının yanında oturup elini tutmaya devam edecek. 🐼🐭

Sonra Fare bir soru daha soruyor. Ama bu kez Panda'nın cevabı hemen gelmiyor.
“Peki ya bir gün kalkıp gitmem gerekirse… Senin benimle gelemeyeceğin bir yere?”
Panda kısa bir süre duruyor. Bu kez vereceği cevap daha zor. Böyle bir ayrılığın onu ne kadar üzeceğini, gözyaşlarının sel gibi akacağını söylüyor. Ama sonra bir şeyi hatırlıyor… ✨
DEVAMI YORUMLARDA 👇🏻

Kitapla kalın, keyifli okumalar 🌿
Bu kitabı bize kazandırdığınız için teşekkürler 🫶🏻

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So many wonderful picture books by Asian creators @village_books in Bellingham, WA!

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📚✨ 7 recent picture books i found at my library! ✨📚
i love wandering into the picture book section and just seeing what’s there! I always end up bringing a pile of them home. some of these are authors / illustrators that i have always loved and some are completely new and were such a pleasant surprise! do you recognise any? or do you have any recommendations for my next library trip?
💕imojjen

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Logbooks are coming in and we are always in AWE of how much @crownstpsofficial kids read! Should we publish a book list?! Keep them coming Crownies! Which class will win the mufti days?!

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Happy World Bee Day! 🐝 This tiny bee is in hiding somewhere in the book ‘Quoll’, now out in paperback! Written by @christophercheng_author, from @walkerbooksaus
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#worldbeeday #saveourbees #bee #bees #cindylaneart

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QUOLL is just one of the books I'll be talking about tomorrow night at the @cbca_wa ANWOS event. Hope to see you there! 🤎 Written by @christophercheng_author & published by @walkerbooksaus
#quoll #spottedquoll #australianillustrator #picturebooks #cindylaneart

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Lunar New Year Shelfie! 🧧🏮

A mix of family favourites, library borrows and beautiful #gifted titles we love bringing out at this time of year.

Top shelf (from left)
🥟Chloe’s Lunar New Year ✍️ Lily LaMotte @lilylamottewrites 🎨 Michelle Lee @fromthebear
🐉New Year Surprise! ✍️ Christopher Cheng @christophercheng_author 🎨 Di Wu
🐲Our Family Dragon: A Lunar New Year Story ✍️ Rebecca Lim @rebeccalim_writer 🎨 Cai Tse @artofcai

Middle shelf
Ruby’s Chinese New Year ✍️ Vickie Lee 🎨 Joey Chou
Lunar New Year Around the World ✍️ Amanda Li 🎨 Angel Chang
The Lucky Red Envelope ✍️ Vikki Zhang 🎨
Logan’s Lantern ✍️ Lucy Tandon Copp 🎨 Ya-Ling Huang

Bottom shelf — Year of the Horse feature 🐎
If I Was a Horse ✍️ Sophie Blackall 🎨 Sophie Blackall
Noni the Pony ✍️🎨 Alison Lester
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse ✍️🎨 Eric Carle

My sister is the zodiac of a horse and she’s galloping over to me from the other side of the world in just over four months for a visit and I can’t wait!

What zodiac signs are in your family?
We are 🐮🐍🐯🐲🐵🐵

#lovefourreading #lunarnewyearbooks #yearofthehorse2026 #kidsbookshelfie

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