#BuySingLit Children's Book Bazaar 2021

To encourage the love of reading among children, the Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA) is organising a #BuySingLit Children’s Book Bazaar from Monday 29 November 2021 as part of the #BuySingLit movement, which is supported by the National Arts Council. The official venue sponsor is the National Library Board, Singapore (NLB) and the online book sales are powered by LAZADA as the Official E-commerce partner.

BuySingLit Childrens Book Bazaar 2021

The Book Bazaar will be held from Monday 29 November 2021 to Sunday 5 December 2021, over a period of 7 days at the Programme Zone at Basement 1 of the Central Public Library. It will be a hybrid event with stage performances with online programmes curated for the consumers in mind. While the online book fair is happening here, you can also shop, watch and participate in our activities and events virtually.

There will be six virtual halls on the webpage. The six virtual halls are

Bookstore
Event
Activity
Promotion
Storyland
Competition

On the opening day, Monday 29 November 2021 at 11:00 am, the Children’s Book Bazaar will be launched by a Guest-of-Honour at the venue, to be followed by a joint book launch by Experiences and Experiments Books and Pustaka Nasional.

The event is open to the public after 2pm on the launch day and on the weekends from 11am to 7pm. Entry is free but attendees are advised to book on Eventbrite.sg prior to entry. Walk-ins are also allowed with registration. There will be one in-person programme for weekdays and three in-person programmes during the weekends. Virtual programmes would be planned for parents on weekday evenings as well.

We have 10 leading publishers and booksellers participating in the Children’s Book Bazaar 2021. They are Asiapac Books, Banjo and Sons, Candid Creation Publishing, Experiences and Experiments Books, Jsim Education, Lingzi Media, Marshall Cavendish International (Asia), Pan Asia Publishing, Pustaka Nasional and World Scientific. Visitors can view the books published by them on the exhibition panels at the venue and scan the QR codes to visit the websites or purchase from them through their Lazada Webstores.

To complement the online virtual bookstores by the publishers, there would be a series of promotions organised by SBPA. These include voting for the favourite children’s books from participating publishers, free e-books, free audiobooks, redemption of #SingLit tote bags and book bazaar subscription.

STORYLAND

BuySingLit Childrens Book Bazaar Storyland

A new feature of the Children’s Book Bazaar is a virtual storyland for kids. The Storyland comprises 10 virtual bookstores, each with its own storytelling videos, e-books, arts and crafts and games for children. Storyland will be open from 9am to 6pm daily throughout the book bazaar.

KIDS’ STORYTELLING COMPETITION

It is a storytelling competition for primary school students to cultivate bilingual articulation and gain confidence in reading, writing, comprehension and oratory skills. This competition is specially designed for local primary school children, aged between 7 to 12 years old.

There are 2 categories in the competition. The first category is for children aged 7 to 9 years old while the second category is for children aged 10 to 12 years old. Participants will have to register online and submit a video of them narrating a story for 2 to 5 minutes.

They are encouraged to use mother tongue languages and English to tell their story in this multi-tiered storytelling competition. The students would have opportunities to hone their language skills, demonstrate their language proficiency and gain public-speaking confidence, throughout the competition.

Ten finalists from each category will be announced at the launch of the Children’s Book Bazaar on 29 November. Seven consolation prizes for each category will be announced at the same time.

The top three winners of the two award categories will be announced on the closing day of the Children’s Book Bazaar on 5 December.

With an interesting range of activities and events, please mark your calendars and come participate in the Children’s Book Bazaar.

EVENT DETAILS

BuySingLit Childrens Book Bazaar

DATE: 29 November to 5 December 2021 (7 days)

PHYSICAL VENUE: National Library Building
Programme Zone, Central Public Library (Basement 1)
Opening Hours: 11am till 7pm

VIRTUAL SITE: bookbazaar.sg

ADMISSION: Free Admission via Eventbrite

Promotions and Discounts

Target audience: Parents (Adult)

Subjects:

Free Ebook
Free Audiobook
Contest to win books
Sing Lit Bag redemption
Book Bazaar Subscription
School Library Catalogues
Vote & Win Your Favorite Book (new)

Vote and Win Your Favourite Book

Twenty children’s books were shortlisted among our participating publishers.

ONLY kids can vote to win their favourite book. Every voter is entitled to one vote per book. This means that you can only vote once for one book. Voting ends on 4 December at 12pm.

During the closing event of the Children’s Book Bazaar, we will announce the top 10 Kids’ Favourite book publishers and the voter winners on 5 December 2021 in-person. The closing event will be streamed live on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. Stay tuned for this special hybrid event as we announce the award winners!

Each bookstore will incorporate features as follow:

Storytelling (video)
Games
Colouring (download)
E-book
Buy button

Upon entering the store and when the kid had participated in at least one activity, a secret code will pop up to encourage the child to take part in a lucky draw to win a Tote Bag.

Kids’ Storytelling Competition Rules

BuySingLit Childrens Book Bazaar Kids Storytelling competition

A storytelling competition for primary school students to cultivate bilingual articulation and gain confidence in reading, writing, comprehension and oratory skills. This competition is specially designed for local primary school children, aged between 7 to 12 years old. There will be two categories as follows:

A) Lower Primary; Aged between 7 to 9 years old
B) Higher Primary; Aged between 10 to 12 years old

They are encouraged to use mother tongue languages and English to tell their story in this multi-tiered storytelling competition. Throughout the competition, the students would have opportunities to hone their language skills, demonstrate their language proficiency and gain public-speaking confidence.

To register, please complete the online entry form and simply submit a short original video clip. Each speech/story must be between 2-5 minutes long. If students are under 2 minutes, or over 5 minutes, they will lose points. Do introduce yourself, name, age and the title of your story before you start telling the story.

You can choose to e-mail your video clip (MP4) here or submit a WeTransfer link.

The video clip can be filmed with any mobile device. Audio recording without video will NOT be accepted.

The registration for the competition will start from 6am on 15/10/2021 to 9pm on 15/11/2021. Late entries will not be accepted. Each child can register only once for the competition.

Ten finalists from each category will be announced on the opening day and listed on SBPA’s YouTube channel for viewing. Seven consolation prizes from each category will be announced at the same time. The Grand Awards Ceremony will be conducted on 5 December 2021 at 4pm in the National Library. The top 3 winners will be announced on that day and they will be invited to attend the physical awards ceremony. The official venue is at the Programme Zone (Basement 1), Central Public Library, National Library, 100 Victoria Street. Both events will be streamed live on SBPA’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

All submissions are to be accompanied by the contact information of their parents.

The judges and contest organisers shall have the final say and all decisions made will be final at the discretion of the judges and contest organisers.

The Singapore Book Publishers Association reserves the right to use any and all submitted works by the participants for future marketing and communications efforts.

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