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Around The World in Picture Books

29/12/2015

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Get a chance to win a wonderful picture book from a different country each month.
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Starting from January 2016, we are going to take you around the world by introducing selected picture books from a different country each month. We will review the books, introduce the authors and illustrators and tell you why we think the books are special. We will select books that we feel tell us something about the culture and people of the countries they come from. ​
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Naturally, not all the books will be in English, Malay or Chinese or a language we can understand. Perhaps in the future, Oyez!Books will have the opportunity to publish the translations. 

​Some of the books we feature may be available from our online store but most will not. However, the good news is, we are giving away ONE copy of each book we feature through a lucky draw.
 
Anyone who buys a book from www.oyezbookstore.com during the month will automatically be entered into the lucky draw to win a picture book from the featured country that month. We will pick and announce the lucky winners on the last day of each month. 


Why are we doing this?

​Firstly
, we were inspired by The Castle Library, a story by Hayati Hanif and illustrated by Evi Shelvia about a princess who loved to travel until she ran out of places to go. One day, she stumbled upon the long-forgotten Castle Library and found that there were great and wonderful adventures to be found in books. Thereafter, whenever she traveled (for she still loved to travel), she brought back to the Castle Library the best books from all over the world. This story not only shows the wonder of books but also how natural it is to share the books we love.
The Castle Library, children's picture book by Hayati Hanif, illustrated by Evi Shelvia, published by Oyez!Books
Secondly, every year we attend several international book fairs and are inspired by some of the best picture books from all over the world. It's not possible for us to translate and publish every book we love, so here's one way we can share them with you. 
Bologna Children's Book Fair
Picture courtesy of the Bologna Children's Book Fair
And in January 2016, we will be traveling to INDONESIA.
2 Comments
Nasuha link
11/7/2016 05:50:24 pm

This is wonderful...for me as a book lover, I was inspired by my dad who bought many 2nd hand books where ever he go. And the library in my place sometime have rare books from oversea (since I live in a small town in Perak). Therefore, apart from giving out the book...do give list of interesting books suggest by Oyez to the people who buy your books since I would like to dedicate some books to my home town library and inspire the community to read more books and to go and travel around the world. This is how much books@what I read as a child have influence me until now, to travel to read more books and to see the world.

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Oyez!Books
11/7/2016 08:50:56 pm

Thank you for your feedback! Do feel free to share some of your favourite books and if we can get them, we will!

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