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2013 Asian Festival of Children’s Content Project Splash Asia!

With our current PaperTigers issue focusing on the theme of Water in Multicultural Children’s Books and with water playing a crucial role in our Spirit of PaperTigers Outreach (read yesterday’s post to learn more), I was thrilled to learn that water-themed children’s stories will also be highlighted at next year’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore!

Project Splash Asia! AFCC 2013

Next year will be the United Nations International Year of Water.

Community and school programmes in many countries will include reading, performing and creating water-themed stories.

Share your favourite stories that have water as a theme, such as Wave by Suzy Lee (California US: Chronicle Books, 2008), Amansinaya-Goddess of the Sea, by Eugene Evasco and Jomike Tejido (illustrator) (Philippines: LG&M, 2007), The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson and Kazumi Wilds (illustrator) (California US: Shen’s Books, 2007), and Water Tales From Around the World (India: Tulika Publishers, 2010).

Project Splash Asia! aims to publish a bibliography and collection of favourite water-themed children’s stories from or about the region for AFCC 2013.

The National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) hopes the compilation of a bibliography of children’s stories around a universal theme will be a regular project for AFCC to showcase the diversity of talents and children’s literature in the region.

For suggestions and enquiries, please email afcc@bookcouncil.sg.


Posted by: Corinne | This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 10:37 am and is filed under Eventful World, PaperTigers Themes, WaterBridge Outreach. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

3 Responses to “2013 Asian Festival of Children’s Content Project Splash Asia!”

  1. Marjorie Says:
    June 26th, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    This is so exciting – a great theme, and with Malaysia as the country of focus, next year’s AFCC is already a high point :-)

  2. BHE (27): Launch of Bimonthly Theme for November/December – Stream of Stories and Whispering Water Tales – Project Splash! Asia « Says:
    November 17th, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    [...] One of the reasons why we specifically chose this theme is that it is in keeping with the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) 2013′s Project Splash! Asia. The goal is to publish a bibliography and collection of favourite water-themed children’s stories from or about the region for AFCC 2013. It is particularly timely as 2013 is UN International Year of Water Cooperation. Corinne from Paper Tigers has written about this initiative here. [...]

  3. Monday Reading: Water Stories in Asian Folktales and Mythology « Says:
    November 18th, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    [...] would be good to open this theme with a few Asian-themed books about water – perfect for our Project Splash! Asia initiative for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content [...]

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