SING A SONG OF HAWKER FOOD: HUMPTY DUMPTY and FRIENDS HAVE A SINGAPORE HAWKER FEAST

The worlds of nursery rhymes and Singapore hawker food collide in this book. Dive into fractured nursery rhymes with a local twist, featuring Singapore hawker food.

Imagine Humpty Dumpty enjoying kaya toast, Jack and Jill grilling satay on a hill and the three blind mice eating chicken rice at the hawker centre. Wouldn't that be a funny sight?

Cheeky illustrations highlight aspects of Singapore hawker culture that children will have fun identifying. Young readers (and not so young ones) can sing or read these hawker food rhymes and follow the familiar rhythms, while naming the well-loved hawker fare that appear in the rhymes.

Lianne Ong is a Singaporean children's author and freelance writer. To date, she has published 14 children's picture books, three of which have won prizes in the Samsung Kidstime Author's Award in 2015 and 2016. She is best known for her Stacey & the Museums series, a 5-title series about museums in Singapore, and a non-fiction resource on hawker food, Timmy & Tammy Discover: Singapore Hawker Food.

Lianne frequently conducts writing workshops and author visits at schools, museums and libraries. Her background is in International Relations and Southeast Asian Studies. She resides in Singapore with her family.

Janice Khoo is a former public servant turned full-time mum and freelance writer. Her first publication for children combines nursery rhymes with a topic that is dear to her heart ― hawker food.

Having written a good number of papers on serious topics when she worked for large organisations, Janice finds that writing fiction for children is serious business too, but much more fun. She stays in Singapore with her family.