Unforgettable Neighbours (Hong Kong Reader)

This is book number three in the Hong Kong Children's book series: Unforgettable Neighbours

Tailor-made for young readers at ages 8 - 12 in Hong Kong and beyond, the Hong Kong Children's Stories series is a collection of six English stories written with the local Hong Kong context in mind. Ideal for language learning, leisure and reading aloud among Hong Kong readers young and old, the book series will bring together original short stories and pictures about various aspects of Hong Kong's everyday life:

Book 1: Culinary Charades, which is about Hong Kong food

Book 2: The Summer of 1997, which is about walking down memory lane in Hong Kong

Book 3: Unforgettable Neighbours, which is about animals in Hong Kong

Book 4: Taming Babel, which is about the Cantonese language

Book 5: Herstory, which is about Hong Kong women

Book 6: A Tale of Two Haunted Universities, which is about Hong Kong women

A good neighbour is hard to find, and the old ones who used to come and play with you when you least expected them at your home sweet home would become part of your sentimental childhood memories for certain. In Unforgettable Neighbours, three siblings from Hong Kong, Andrew, Anna and Angus sit around a campfire and recall memories of the old Belcher's Gardens in Mid-Levels west halfway up Victoria Peak, the serene villa which their grannies used to live before it was demolished in the 1990s. Flashing back in their mind the wealth of greenery, private gardens, antique ponds, classy fountains and playgrounds in the sanctuary of their hearts, the three siblings go back in time, stroll in the Belcher's Gardens, and meet again their fun and bizarre neighbours who dare to steal bananas from the ancestor shrine, take afternoon naps underneath people's car bonnets, hang upside down the crystal ceiling lights, and lay eggs in grandpa's studio!

Anna Tso, PhD, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Open University of Hong Kong. Interested in language arts and children's literature in Hong Kong, she has published research articles in peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her books include Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017) and Academic Writing for Arts and Humanities Students (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016). She does use her published books in her English language and literature classes. If the Hong Kong Children's Stories series is published, she will use it in her class and share it in the reading clubs she leads for the Hong Kong Public Libraries.

Book series illustrator: Joanne Lo was born in Canada and raised both in Toronto and Hong Kong. Growing up and living on a beautiful outlying island called Cheung Chau, she has a special love for nature, animals, art and one's spiritual growth. She began her career in creative media since graduating from university majoring in Cultural Studies and Visual Studies. She is the illustrator of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017), a book housed in the Yale and Harvard University Libraries and downloaded for over 4,850 times since its publication. Currently, she is working on a funded children's book series about Hong Kong memories.