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SUPERLEAD PICTURE BOOKS
We’ve all heard of Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. Now make way for Goh Bee Lock, Swee Ping and Goh Bee Lock and the Three Boars K.F. Seetoh
978981 0760168 Paperback, 32pp 260 x 210mm S $16.90 UK £6.99 US $12.90 Rights: World Out in February 2014
In Goh Bee Lock and the Three Boars, a playful girl named Bee Lock stumbles upon three pigs in a forest. While the normal reaction would be to turn your heels and run as fast as you can to safety, let’s see what this feisty Singaporean girl does, turning this popular fairy tale on its head with a surprising local twist! You won’t want to miss how obsessed foodie K.F. Seetoh has reimagined this classic story! K.F. Seetoh is the creator of makansutra, which began as a food guide, but is now a business that involves themedconcept food courts, TV food shows, events and web and mobile content apps.
Swee Ping, the Beauty Janice Koh
978981 0732776 Paperback, 32pp 260 x 210mm S $16.90 UK £6.99 US $12.90 Rights: World Out in February 2014
In Swee Ping, the Beauty, Janice Koh adapts the play Oi! Sleeping Beauty by Jonathan Lim and turns it into a hilarious local picture book. Swee Ping is a beautiful girl who has been cursed to sleep for 100 years. When she wakes, she cannot recognise her island home any more and sets about to remind everyone of the good old days. Will she succeed? Janice Koh is a nominated Member of Parliament, and a stage and TV actress. She most recently played the role of the mother in the popular TV series, The Diary of Amos Lee, and is well-known for her role as ambitious lawyer Angela Ang in the critically acclaimed TV drama, The Pupil.