Woods in the Books Blog — Events

When I chanced upon This is Not a Book by Jean Jullien, I knew this was what I wanted to work with. There are no words in the book and the pages are images or settings with seemingly no relation to one another. It’s a great piece of material to provide both visual and audio stimulation to young children, and at the same time allows creativity and imagination to determine the premise of that stimulation. I wanted to also demonstrate to parents that there’s no need to buy many toys or books, they can use just one book to create many different...

Q: What's the difference between a library and a bookshop? A: At the library you can borrow the books for a little while. At the bookshop you can borrow the books forever! --- Q: What do you think bookshop owners do in a bookshop? A: Sell books! A: Collect books! A: Take care of the books! --- We recently hosted a class of kindergarteners who came to find out all about picture book art techniques, and we loved all their answers to the questions we threw at them during the session. Before they began working on their own Very Hungry...

All alone in a landfill, Bubble lives with only junk objects around him. But one day, Bubble discovers that the pieces of junk around him are more than what they seem…   Discover Bubble’s story as Creative Resident Myra Loke brings objects to life in The World of Bubble, an interactive play space installation. Inspired by the imaginative play worlds dreamed up in the Build, Shape, Create sessions in July, each session is designed to hone every child’s creative thinking skills through elements of storytelling and free roaming child-led play. For pre-walkers and crawlers, there are plenty of sensory play elements...

  Let’s open the crayon box! Why won’t the other crayons let the black crayon join in their fun? In a session that focuses on Mandarin oral communication and interaction, read a story, create a scratch painting, and bring a copy of《蜡笔小黑》home with you! This session supports parent-child language immersion and is friendly to non-Chinese-speaking parents. Woods in the Books believes that a good story is a good start to learning a new language, made better when parent and child explore together. Each session of Chinese StoryTime begins with a handpicked story and Mandarin interaction during the session. To keep...