Useful Links & Resources

Our partners in reading together and children’s books

• Questions to ask based on BMAB recommended books, written by Executive Director, Pia Wong for Goodies English Newspaper for Children
• Blog on books by BMAB Trainer, Percie Wong
• Creative Resources to bring reading to life for children by children’s laureate & Charlie and Lola author, Lauren Child
• Articles written by Board Member, Annie Ho about early childhood literacy, together with picture book recommendations.
• Articles written by ex-Board Member, Gweneth Rehnborg about adolescent literacy topics, together with chapter book recommendations.
• Articles written by Choi EE (Chinese) about the importance of reading aloud in the Hong Kong community.
• Reading Makes You Shine Facebook Page (Chinese) is managed by a group of enthusiastic parents who met at our community training workshops and wanted to provide a forum to continue sharing their new-found passion for books and reading aloud.
• Summer Reading & Activity Ideas for Kids (Recommended by BMABHK fans: Kira & Renee Vickers)
• The Jadis Blurton Family Development Center : For those children with dyslexia or facing other social, emotional and learning challenges
• Daddy’s Time to Read!

Our favorite people and places

About reading and books:

• Hong Kong Public Library
• Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
• Seven Stories
• A Mighty Girl is the world’s largest collection of books and other resources for developing “smart, confident and courageous girls”.
• Guys Read is a web-based literacy program for boys founded by author and First National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature Jon Scieszka, and its mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.
• The Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award
• The Caldecott Medal
• Newbery Award
• Kate Greenaway Award
• Astrid Lindgren Award
• Hans Christian Andersen Book Award
• Golden Dragon Book Awards

About speakers and special guests from our past events:

• Mem Fox is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies (Flinders University, South Australia), and also Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author.
• Diane Frankenstein is an expert in children’s literature and language arts, an award-winning author, and strategic literacy consultant and pioneer.
• Stephen Krashen is a linguist and educational researcher who is the foremost authority in the fields of second-language acquisition, bilingual education and free voluntary reading.
• Leonard Marcus is a renowned historian and critic in the world of children’s books.
• Cris Rowan is a pediatric occupational therapist and child development expert who advocates for reducing the use of technology in child development.
• Mark Williams (www.oxfordmindfulness.org) is founder of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, an international centre of excellence within Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry, that works with partners around the world to prevent depression and enhance human potential through the therapeutic use of mindfulness.
• Madeline Levine, M.A., Ph.D.is a psychologist with over 30 years of experience as a clinician, consultant, and educator. Her book The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids explores the reasons why teenagers from affluent families are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems.
• Jon Klassen, Canadian writer and illustrator of children’s books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children’s book illustration
• Yu Li Qiong, the Feng Zikai Chinese Children Picture Book award winning author of A New Year’s Reunion. The book was also one of the top 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011 awarded by The New York Times Book Review.

About research and news in family literacy:

• PIRLS Report
• Challenge Success – Research, findings and advice to help you give your child a well-rounded upbringing.
• Parent-child interactions from language and literacy skills in Hong Kong Chinese children – by Professor Catherine McBride, CUHK
• Reach out and Read – Evidence for early age reading interventions.

Articles

• Keeping your brain young – Stephen Krashen
• Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy, Study Finds
• Great tips on How To Raise a Reader and book recommendations from the Editor of the New York Times Children’s Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/guides/books/how-to-raise-a-reader
• 15 Ways to Help Kids Develop Empathy –  Ana (Jovanovic) Sokolovic, M.S. Clinical Pscyhology