Category Archives: Books

Picture Books with Seniors

Posted on October 29, 2023 by pauseability

I am currently exploring how good picture books might be used with seniors. The artistry of images and wonderful storytelling, the possibility of both reminiscing and wild imagining together, all points to potential waiting to be tapped in picture books … Continue reading →

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Book Review from Nat

Posted on May 4, 2022 by pauseability

Book Review: Cannot Forget👾I feel that the book is amazing😃and I can learn about different traditions and what it was like before I was born.⌚️One of my favourite stories is : Bus boy, where a boy who has just graduated … Continue reading →

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When is Chinese New Year

Posted on January 20, 2020 by pauseability

It has been a while since I last created a TinyTap story/game. My good friend Ellen Weber asked me to recommend a good book about Chinese New Year and that was the spark I needed. In under 10 hours, here’s … Continue reading →

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Happyland

Posted on July 14, 2019 by pauseability

On Saturday, I attended a talk by Josef Lee 李文良, a Singapore author and illustrator who has recently published a few well-received picture books. In this talk, he shared about his interesting journey that led to him publishing his book … Continue reading →

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Publishing on Kindle

Posted on January 27, 2018 by pauseability

Bobo is a picture book written a while back, and recently, an additional section that shows the recipe for Bobo Chacha was added. With it already in PDF format, I explored and successfully published it on Amazon for Kindle. (Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Creating Creativity

Posted on June 27, 2017 by pauseability

In “The Agile Mind – How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen”, Estanislao Bachrach shared the two important conclusions from a 2009 study by Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School.  The six-year study was carried out on three thousand … Continue reading →

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Service Learning for Early Learners

Posted on June 6, 2017 by pauseability

It is never too young to provide opportunities for young learners to contribute to the community, and so much the better when using the approach of Service Learning in which both the service and learning components are equally important. What a … Continue reading →

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Thinking, Learning and Training

Posted on May 25, 2017 by pauseability

I am glad to have been given the opportunity to contribute a chapter to the book Thinking, Learning and Training. This was a project initiated by Siew Ning, a lecturer at SMU. I expanded on an idea which I had … Continue reading →

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A Delightful Decade

Posted on May 1, 2017 by pauseability

Pauseability was registered with ACRA on 1 May 2007. So, today marks the 10 year milestone. A good juncture for some reflections, thanksgiving and celebrations. I started off on this journey of learning more about innovation and enterprise through experience with a gung-ho … Continue reading →

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Asian Picture Books

Posted on April 20, 2017 by pauseability

In a recent writing project, I needed to look for some local picture books related to a topic. As these are not only non-fiction titles, finding a good listing was really quite a task. I found myself exploring the shelves … Continue reading →

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