Adeline Foo is a graduate student of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She is a fourth generation Singaporean Peranakan, and has published 15 children’s books. Adeline’s The Diary of Amos Lee: I Sit, I Write, I Flush! and Girls, Guts and Glory are national bestsellers. The first book has also won the International School Libraries Network's Red Dot Award for Best Junior Book.
About the Books
Written by Adeline Foo and illustrated by Lee Kowling:
The Beaded Slippers
The Kitchen God
Chilli Padi
The Amulet
These books share the stories of the unique Chinese-Malay-Eurasian hybrid culture of the Peranakans, with a focus on their material culture, food traditions and religious beliefs set in the 50s to 60s.
Of Beaded Slippers, A Kitchen God, Chilli Padi and The Amulet:
An Appreciation of Singapore’s Peranakan Heritage through Picture Books
The Chinese Peranakans are descendants of Southern Chinese traders who settled in Malacca and around the coastal areas of Java and Sumatra in the 14th century. By the 19th century, the Chinese Peranakans had moved to Penang and Singapore and forged a unique, hybrid culture which has remained a part of Singapore’s rich, living heritage.
This workshop explores how the tradition of “talk-story” is kept alive, through grandmothers sharing parables and folk tales with their grandchildren.
Learn how picture books are used to connect with young readers, and discover how a myriad of colours, spices and Baba patois has brought history alive!
Want to know more?
Check out www.adelinefootheauthor.blogspot.com and www.amoslee.com.sg for updates.
Please see the Registration Program PDF output below
for basic information about this workshop.