Jack and Jill at Bukit Timah Hill
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šRecommended for ages 3 and above
Gwen LeeĀ
Illustrated by TwisstiiLook inside the bookĀ Ā |Ā Ā Get the E-book
Synopsis:
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To find the Monkey Man;
Jack fell down, and claimed he was ill,
And left Jill without a plan.Gwen Lee has taken traditional nursery rhymes and given them a Singaporean twist, adding local humour and flavour to many classics like Little Boy Blue, Jack and Jill and I Had a Little Nut Tree.
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Trained as an architect in the UK,Ā Gwen LeeĀ is one of the few interdisciplinary writers straddling the fields of architecture and literature. Her first childrenās book wasĀ Little Cloud Wants Snow!Ā She also wrote two nursery rhyme collections told with a Singaporean flavourāThere Was a Peranakan Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, published in 2014, followed byĀ Jack and Jill at Bukit Timah HillĀ a year later. Gwen is a recipient of the National Arts Council's inaugural Arts Creation Fund and the winner of its Beyond Words Young and Younger initiative. She lives in New York, USA with her husband and daughter.
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- Description
- About the Author
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šRecommended for ages 3 and above
Gwen LeeĀ
Illustrated by TwisstiiLook inside the bookĀ Ā |Ā Ā Get the E-book
Synopsis:
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To find the Monkey Man;
Jack fell down, and claimed he was ill,
And left Jill without a plan.Gwen Lee has taken traditional nursery rhymes and given them a Singaporean twist, adding local humour and flavour to many classics like Little Boy Blue, Jack and Jill and I Had a Little Nut Tree.
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Trained as an architect in the UK,Ā Gwen LeeĀ is one of the few interdisciplinary writers straddling the fields of architecture and literature. Her first childrenās book wasĀ Little Cloud Wants Snow!Ā She also wrote two nursery rhyme collections told with a Singaporean flavourāThere Was a Peranakan Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, published in 2014, followed byĀ Jack and Jill at Bukit Timah HillĀ a year later. Gwen is a recipient of the National Arts Council's inaugural Arts Creation Fund and the winner of its Beyond Words Young and Younger initiative. She lives in New York, USA with her husband and daughter.
