Woods in the Books Blog

First there was an apple… What happens next? Listen to the story change as you remake it in a session that focuses on Mandarin oral communication and interaction and then bring a copy of 《首先有一个苹果》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 the momentum going, parents and children get...

Build, shape, create! Journey through an imaginative world of play that you help to make with Woods in the Books Creative Resident Myra Loke in a blend of story and play based on Laura Carlin’s A World of Your Own. In each parent-child bonding session, kids will learn to germinate their own ideas, hone creative thinking, and practise fine motor skills with play dough crafts. You might even see your ideas in a new interactive play space coming to Woods in the Books in August! Who: 4 - 9 years oldWhen:7, 13, 14 July11.00AM - 12.15PM2.00PM - 3.15PM4.00PM - 4.15PMWhere:...

If you've dropped by our shop in Tiong Bahru over the past few months, you might have heard the cacophony we have been living with nearly day in and day out. Woods in the Books is on the ground floor of an old shophouse and the people upstairs have been renovating. Drilling, hammering, the electric whine of machines hard at work -- these sounds are not uncommon to life in Singapore. But somehow, the sounds of construction above us have come a little too close for comfort, even for Singapore. Sandbags dragging, chipping and scraping, all sounding like one thin...

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 the...