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12 Ways to Show Your Love!

29/4/2016

Since we first started our Special Edition of Colourart by Emila Yusof, whereby you get to choose your own cover and inside pages, from a selection of 60 designs, we have been overwhelmed by orders.

These special editions are ideal as a present for they show the giver's thoughtfulness in selecting each of the 12 pages - the twelve ways you can show your love and care!

And for Mother's Day, we are giving a special promotion - each special edition is now RM18.00 instead of RM24 (you save RM6).

This also applies to all the other Colourart books by Emila Yusof, ie RM15 instead of RM20 (you save RM5).

This offer is valid from now until 8th May. Just enter the coupon code "MOTHERSDAY" upon checkout.

Our customers have delighted and surprised us by their choice of cover design and sometimes, we wished we had thought of them ourselves! Have a look at some of the special edition covers:

Special Edition Colourart by Emila Yusof, colouring books for adults published by Oyez!Books

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Three Picture Books from the Philippines

9/4/2016

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Continuing our Around the World in Picture Books adventure, here are three delightful picture books from the Philippines. They are bilingual books - English and Filipino. These three books are published by Lampara Books.

1. Si Nina sa bayan ng Daldalina = Nina in the town of Daldalina
Author: Aliona Silva
Illustrator: Luisito Chua
Translator: Becky Bravo

Nina lives in the town Daldalina where everyone likes to talk loudly. It is known as the noisiest town in the whole of Philippines! "If you have a soft voice, perhaps people don't need to hear what you have to say," that was the belief. Unfortunately, Nina does not have a voice. What is she to do? But one day, Nina found her voice - in her drawings - and the town people learned to appreciate her voice. They also learned to stop talking sometimes to listen to people who have weaker voices.

Si Nina sa bayan ng Daldalina, Nina in the town of Daldalina by Alonia Silva, Around the World in Picture Books by Oyez!Books

Ang lumang aparador ni lola, Grandmother's antique wardrobe by Genaro R. Gojo Cruz, illustrated by Jose Migeul Tejido, Around the World in Picture Books by Oyez!Books

2. Ang lumang aparador ni lola = Grandmother's antique wardrobe
Author: Genaro R. Gojo Cruz
Illustrator: Jose Miguel "Jomike" Tejido.

There's an antique wardrobe in the house that used to belong to Grandmother. The little girl is convinced there must be a fearsome monster in it. She avoids going near the wardrobe and mother will not let her near it. But one day, mother takes out a beautiful pink dress for her to wear on her birthday. And for Language Week in class, mother got out a Filipino dress for her to wear.

It was so beautiful and delicate with butterfly embroidery. One day, she plucks up her courage and tries to open the door of the wardrobe but it will not open. She asks her mother who opens it for her - inside the wardrobe are old pictures and many things that have been passed down including many beautiful clothes that her grandmother had sewn which had been worn by her mother and now her.

3. A Lesson from Juana
Author: Becky Bravo
Illustrator: Jonathan Rañola

In the island where Juana lives, little girls are taught to sew and weave while little boys are taught to fish. Unfortunately, Juana is not very good at sewing or weaving. So she asks her father to teach her to fish. Everyone is shocked but her father takes her along for his next fishing trip. Juana learns that the best fish are further away but their little boat cannot reach it safely. Juana feels the wind blowing her hair and she has an idea. She works all night and the next morning, her father's boat has a sail made up from the cloths she had tried to sew. That day, their boat went further and came back with the biggest fish.

A Lesson from Juana by Becky Bravo, illustrated by Jonathan Ranola, Around the World in Picture Books by Oyez!Books

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