It brings us great pleasure to invite you to Oyez!Books launch of nine brand new titles for first quarter 2016! We are introducing another wonderful variety of books, ranging from picture books in English AND Bahasa Malaysia, a chapter book series first published in Australia that brings together a young boy with a 700-year old ghost, and art and colouring books with all sorts of monsters! Join us on Thursday, 24th March from 2.00-4.00pm at Silverfish Books to meet and mingle with our authors and illustrators, and browse our new books. Here's the overview of the books for the launch :
We are very excited to show you all these lovely books at the launch. Mark your calendars for 24th March, and don't miss this chance to meet the authors and illustrators.
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We are kicking the year off with a huge bang launching up to twelve brand new titles and re-introducing an award-winning favourite from Yusof Gajah! On Wednesday, 27th January, from 2.00 - 4.00pm at Silverfish Books, join us for an afternoon of visual and literary delight as our authors talk about the latest books. Here's what you can expect at the launch :
What a variety of books we have lined up!
We will be sharing more details about each book in the coming days. Mark your calendars and don't miss this exciting chance to meet your favourite authors! The Festival Sastera Kanak-kanak 2015 (Children's Literature Festival), organised by the Perbadanan Kota Buku started today with a bang followed by an award ceremony. Oyez!Books is proud to win the Children's Book Publisher Award and thank all our wonderful authors and illustrators and of course, Kota Buku for their wonderful initiative. We feel encouraged and motivated to publish even more wonderful works by Malaysian authors and illustrators. And we congratulate Emila Yusof who took home five awards in different categories: 1. Parent's Choice Award for My Father's Farm 2. Best Illustrator Award 3. Best Picture Book Award for Legendary Princesses of Malaysia 4. Best Early Reader Picture Book Award - My Father's Farm 5. Third Prize: Early Reader Picture Book Award - My Mother's Kitchen Nor Azhar Ishak, author and illustrator of the book, Under the Sea, done entirely in batik medium was also awarded best book in the 6-12 years old category. In the picture book category, two books published by Oyez!Books won the second and third prize respectively: - The Castle Library by Hayati Hanif and Evi Shelvia - The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree illustrated by Chooi Ling Keiong And a big congratulations and well-deserved recognition for Yusof Gajah who received the Children's Literature Accolade from KotaBuku, which the highest award for the festival. Finally, Congratulations to all the other winners. Oyez!Books will try to talk to the publishers to sell those books in www.oyezbookstore.com so that our readers can appreciate the range of quality Malaysian titles available. According to KotaBuku, 646 entries were submitted from 27 publishers. Thank You KotaBuku!
Well-known Malaysian illustrator, Emila Yusof who wrote and illustrated the very popular trio of Dina Books... and bestseller Legendary Princesses of Malaysia... has produced the only locally designed four Colourart books for adults to be found in Malaysia. Two of the books are also now available in Germany! Emila will be featured in The New Straits Times on her books and their success. Stand by for the article!
At present the books may be purchased from: 1. www.oyezbookstore.com 2. Silverfish Books, Level 2, Bangsar Village 2, Bangsar, KL. (Tel: 03-22011758) 3. Stickerrific, 83-1.2 Level 1, The Square, Jaya One, PJ. (Tel: 03-7495 5963) 4. Eversachi in Ipoh (Email: eversachi@gmail.com; Tel: 017-5790575) 5. IKA Picture Story House, Kuching, (Tel: 60198178878 Email: ikapicturestoryhouse@gmail.com) Other book shops and art shops are planning to introduce them. If you wish to sell Emila's Colourart books, please email: contact@oyezbookstore.com Yusof Gajah – internationally acclaimed artist, author, mentor of budding illustrators with a special love of children is currently working in Korea with Nami Island and on their new site in Jeju Island. And it's all about elephants of course. We love Yusof so much we have collected his art and made them into an ABC book - this is the Alphabet and Elephabet by Yusof Gajah:
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