Visitors at AFCC 2015 Media Mart
Visitors at AFCC 2015 Media Mart

Come visit the exciting AFCC Book Fair to discover and purchase the latest children’s books and content from across the region! This year, the Book Fair will feature a record number of more than 40 exhibitors, and showcase a wide selection of multilingual children’s and young adult titles (including specially imported books and illustrated prints/paper memorabilia ) from local and international publishers. 

Festival Bookstore: Closetful of Books

Closetful of Books is a specialist children’s bookseller started by Denise Tan and Kelvin Ng. They grew up accompanied by magical stories, and continue to believe in the power of reading for pleasure. Closetful of Books also visits schools with a vast and specially-curated selection of picture books, novels, non-fiction titles and graphic novels, and extends library consultancy services to schools.

Website: www.closetfulofbooks.com
Email: [email protected]

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ABC Educational Development Center

ABC Educational Development Center is a school for children since 1993. It started a publishing company dedicated to introducing high quality books for children that would promote the culture and heritage of the Filipino people. They are committed to publishing books that contain stories with significant values that would benefit children and families around the world. ABC is also the first to publish children's books in Mindanao.

Website: www.abcedcbooks.wix.com/books4children
Email: [email protected]

Adarna House

Adarna House is the first and largest publisher of children's books in the Philippines. Its educational products consist of multilingual board books, storybooks, chapter books and references - all original publications that feature Filipino values, culture history, and experiences - created by the best writers and illustrators in the country.

Website: www.adarna.com.ph
Email: [email protected] 

Ahoy Sardines

We imagine, explore and make a difference. We offer services such as illustrations, graphic design, crafty booth, book reading sessions + crafty workshops and school visits.

AHOY SARDINES!  Directed by author and illustrator Elieth Sardinas, focuses on sharing and learning through arts and crafts. We want to inspire you to experience the world with your own hands!.

Website: www.ahoysardines.com
Email: [email protected]

AK Publishing

AK Publishing revolves around the 3 main pillars - Arts, Culture and Education that brings entertaining educational books with affection to children world-wide. The stories ranging from biblical fables to classics with colourful illustrations, meaningful contents with easy to read text.

AK Publishing also produces coffee-table books, photography books, biographies, self-help books and music books as well as a number of titles in China dealing with publishing, copyright and distribution.

Website: www.ak-publish.com
Email: [email protected]

Alkem Company

Alkem Company is a distributor and publisher for books, training materials, E-learning, educational aids, multi-media, research software and training kits. Their products cater to schools, higher education, research, professionals and training sectors.

Website: www.alkem.com.sg
Email: [email protected]

Armour Publishing

Armour Publishing is a leading independent publisher of books for Asia and the world. Established in 1991, Armour has published over 330 titles for the children's, christian and general markets. Armour publishes children's books under the Little Knights imprint. Their books help children learn to read and grow their love for reading through compelling stories that are educational and promote good values and character building.

Website: www.armourpublishing.com
Email: [email protected] 

Association of Writers & Illustrators for Children (India)

The Association of Writers & Illustrators for Children (AWIC), the Indian Section of IBBY, is an active forum for the promotion and development of creative literature for children and works on several projects.

Website: www.awic.in
Email: [email protected]

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Beijing Poplar Culture Project / 蒲蒲兰绘本馆

Represented by Maha Yu Yi Pte Ltd.
Maha Yu Yi has a children’s bookshop in Bras Basah Complex specialising in quality children’s titles in Mandarin. They have over 3000 titles, including baby board books and picture books by international authors, as well as story books with or without hanyu pinyin. They also distribute their books to libraries in Singapore, and organise book fairs for schools.

Website: www.yuyi.com.sg
Email: [email protected]

Borobudur Agency

Borobudur Agency is a literary agency established by the Indonesian Publishers Association. It represents publishers and authors for children's and young adult books, comic books, novels, literary works, cookbooks, lifestyle, social studies, Indonesian arts and culture, interactive digital textbooks and software.

Website: www.borobuduragency.com
Email: [email protected] 

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Canon Singapore

Canon is a global technologies company that specialises in a wide range of business. Canon digital production printing systems allow users to print What They Need, When They Need it. Our production lineup, enhanced with the addition of Oce products, delivers accurate colour reproduction along with high-quality output and high levels of productivity.

Creative Knowledge

Creative Knowledge was established in 2008 and affilliated to Creative Technology Ltd. The company's core business is in building and marketing IT and educational products. These include digital textbook and schoolbag solutions, Chinese procesing software, Chinese learning products, CD-Rom applications and hardware mobile learning devices.

On the digital educational front, Creative has a suite of highly popular award-winning early childhood educational products that uses the Chinese language medium to teach young children topics such as English, Maths, Music, Science, Arts and Social Skills.

Website: www.hansvision.com/others/joyreader
Email: [email protected]

Crimson Earth

Crimson Earth, established in 2005, is a publishing firm focussing on content creation in the education and literary sector in Singapore. Its portfolio includes the works of Cultural Medallion Recipients, S.E.A. Write Award Winners, and Royal Commonwealth Essay Competition Winners. 

Website: www.crimsonearth.com
Email: [email protected] 

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English Corner Publishing

Its core business is to publish Primary Science stories for children 3 to 12 years old. These short stories cover general topics - mainly health and fables for primary levels. 

Website: www.englishcorner.sg
Email: [email protected] 

Epigram Books

Epigram Books was set up to champion Singaporean literature. It publishes mainly fiction - from picture books and graphic novels to literary bestsellers. Its authors have won the major book prizes, including the Hedwig Anuar Children's Book Award, Singapore Literature Prize and Singapore Book Awards since it started in 2011. It sponsors Singapore's richest literary award, the annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Wee Editions, another imprint, supports local designers, photographers and artists.

Website: www.epigrambooks.sg
Email: [email protected]

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Fremantle Press

Fremantle Press is an independent not-for-profit publishing house renowned for producing books of high quality. Their publications include works by new and established Western Australian authors. A key component of Fremantle Press's publishing program is their indigenous titles list, which is highly regarded nationally and internationally.

Website: www.fremantlepress.com.au
Email: [email protected]

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Grady Bear Adventures

Grady Bear Adventures is a publishing company formed in September 2015 for the Grady Bear Adventures series of books. The Grady Bear stories embody the challenges of growing up and making friends through the eyes of a bear. The company aims to reach out to parents and children through their read aloud drama series of children's books.

Website: www.gradybear.com
Email: [email protected]

Gramedia Book Publishing

Gramedia Group of Book Publishers is the biggest book publishing entity in Indonesia. They provide a rich variety of children's books, and are looking for publishers who are interested in finding Indonesian rights and co-edition partners or international distribution partners.

Website: www.gramediainternational.com
Email: [email protected]

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Helang Books

Helang Books is an independent publisher. Although new to the publishing industry, they have managed to publish high-quality history and heritage books as well as award-winning children's literature. Besides publishing, Helang Books also organise literary related programmes such as dramatisation sessions at the libraries, and talks about heritage and culture.

Website: www.archipelago-consultancy.com/helang-books
Email: [email protected] 

Hunan Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House / 湖南少年儿童出版社有限责任公司

湖南少年儿童出版社是中国一流的专业少儿出版社,所出图书屡获大奖,曾荣获“全国新闻出版行业文明单位”等称号。

Website: www.hnjcph.com
Email: [email protected]  

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Joshibi University of Art and Design / 女子美術大學

Joshibi (Women's) University of Art and Design aims at developing creative minds, and encourages students to contribute to society through art and design. The university was established in 1900 with a pioneering spirit to educate career women through art and design. Students are actively involved in international exhibitions.

Website: www.joshibi.ac.jp
Email: [email protected]

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Kelompok Pencinta Bacaan Anak (KPBA)

KPBA is a non-profit organisation and a pioneer in promoting an interest in reading to children in Indonesia. For thirty years, KBPA takes part in increasing the children's interest, the quality of reading, and library services for promoting reading habits. KPBA is happy to share the organisation's experience in promoting books for children, and to cooperate with other organisations who have the same interests, at AFCC.

Website: www.kpba-murti.org
Email: [email protected]

Kumon Asia & Oceania

For almost 60 years, the Kumon Method has nurtured millions of students worldwide and is now available in 48 countries with 4 million enrolments. The Mathematices Programmes is designed to focus on the essential concepts to enable students to solve high school level mathematics problems as early as possible. The Language Programmes aim for students to gain a strong interest in reading and develop an advanced level of reading comprehension ability. The passages from the English and Chinese Programmes worksheets are extracted from over 300 books, from well-loved titles to classic works.

Website: sg.kumonglobal.com
Email: [email protected]

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Lingzi Media / 玲子传媒

Lingzi Media is a publishing and distribution company established with the aim of promoting the Chinese language in Singapore. In the past 20 years, Lingzi has worked with writers and educational institutions to produce a wide range of literary and non-fiction titles, and has developed into a leading company in the fields of publishing, culture and education in Singapore.

玲子传媒是新加坡本土出版公司,以华文为母语,以岛国为基地,多方位出版与发行各类书籍与青少年读物,为小国寡民开拓新视界,为岛国的华文出版创造新气象。玲子传媒以华文书出版、阅读推广与出版服务为业务主轴,创立二十年,在新加坡出版了一系列的文学与非文学类书籍,并协助作家与教育机构出版各类出版物,在新加坡出版界、文化界与教育界享有良好的声誉。

Website: www.lingzi.com.sg
Email: [email protected]

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Magicbird Publishing

Magicbird Publishing is a non-profit social business established in 2012 as an independent children's content creator. The core activity of the company is the publication of Magicbird book for sale. Profits from sales go towards the funding of Wisdom Clubs for Children, and the building of reading spaces.

Website: www.magicbirdworld.org
Email: [email protected]

Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)

As one of the largest general interest publishers in Southeast Asia, Marshall Cavendish provides readers with a wide collection of print and digital content ranging from children’s titles to cuisine, business, history, art, travel, culture and local fiction.

Website: www.marshallcavendish.com/genref
Email: [email protected]

Mini Monsters

Mini Monsters, pioneer of Malay children’s educational content was founded to instil a lifelong love for the Malay language for today’s generation of children. Its approach in innovating and developing creative content for children is reflected in its successful amalgamation of its programmes into multiple media platforms. Mini Monsters offers programmes for students and educators. It has made an impact on Singapore’s educational scene and it continues to serve their motto of “Berhibur dan Belajar” (Entertain and Educate).

Website: www.minimonsters.com.sg
Email: [email protected] 

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National Book Trust India

The National Book Trust, India publishes general reading material for all age-groups, especially children, in all major Indian languages besides English and Hindi. They participate in international book fairs and display a collective exhibit of select Indian publications on a wide range of subjects. They also organise the annual New Delhi World Book Fair which is the largest book event in the Afro-Asian region. The next New Delhi World Books Fair will be held from 6 to 14 January 2018. 

Website: www.nbtindia.gov.in
Email: [email protected] 

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Odonata Publishing

Odonata Publishing is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its objective is to cultivate the reading habits of young children, focussing on readers aged between 1 to 25. Books published include picture books, government school textbooks, comics, illustrated novels, young adult novels and adult fiction. Since 2006, several of their titles have made The International Chinese Newsweekly Malaysia Bestsellers' Book List for more than 400 weeks.

Website: www.odonatabooks.com
Email: [email protected]

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Pan Asia Publishing

Pan Asia Publishing was established in 1984 to develop and publish Chinese and bilingual stories for children aged between 0–12 years. With the strong philosophy of "Read Today, For a Better Tomorrow", Pan Asia’s content is written and illustrated with a single set of aims in mind: to entertain, motivate, educate children, and to instil in them a love of language and culture, respect for lifelong values and a joy of reading.

Website: www.shop.panasiabooks.com
Email: [email protected]

Paperplane Pilots

Paperplane is a crossmedia creative studio that specialise in visual storytelling. They are content creators with a passion for the magic of words, art, action and interaction; they have a unique visual style that is evident in their Studio Original comics, graphic novels, apps and giclee prints. Paperplane’s love for storytelling extends to working with businesses, brands and start-ups to connect meaningfully with their audience through story, using a variety of visual styles that work best for the brand.

Website: www.paperplaneco.com
Email: [email protected]

Perbadanan Kota Buku

Kota Buku was inspired by the National Book Policy that recommended the establishment of a "Book City" in Malaysia. It has positioned itself as the publishing industry's facilitator and enabler, bridging industry players, writers and readers and offering value added services under one roof. The aim is to become an ideal agency for the nation's book industry for development, by covering following aspects: Capacity Building, content trade, book related activities & technology enabler. Our service included KotaBuku Academy, Copyrights & Trade, Digital Publication, Research & Consultancy & Social Enterprise Department.

Website: www.kotabuku.my

P.S. Grandpa I Love You

As a Volunteer Welfare Organisation serving patients with life-limiting illnesses, focus tends to be on patients overlooking the impact the loss of a family member has on a child and the consequent psychosocial issues that follow. P.S. Grandpa, I Love You is an attempt at bridging that gap in a multi-disciplinary care that provides for both patients and their family members. It is their hope that the work finds its way into mainstream education and healthcare usage.  

Website: www.hca.org.sg
Email: [email protected]

PT Kanisius

PT Kanisius is the oldest publishing and printing house in Indonesia, and has been running since 1922. They focus on publishing educational books (including various children's books) and books with Catholic themes. Books published by PT Kanisius have been spread out in all over Indonesia, with many titles reprinted in Malaysia. 

Website: www.kanisiusmedia.com
Email: [email protected] 

Pustaka Nasional

Pustaka Nasional started in 1963 and have over 900 titles: 80% in Malay, 10% in Arabic and 10% in English. 70% of the books are on Islam and the rest on literary works. The principal activities of Pustaka Nasional are in the publication of quality books and typesetting services.

Website: www.pustaka.com.sg
Email: [email protected]

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Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution wishes to provide a hands-on experience for participants (especially children) to make something that will introduce them to books, and inspire them to develop the love for reading. Students will prepare designs of a character from popular children’s’ books. On the day of the event, children can trace over these designs onto shrink plastic, which will then be baked and shrunk in a toaster. 

Website: www.ri.edu.sg
Email: [email protected]

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Scholastic

Scholastic is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, and a leader in educational technology and children’s media. Scholastic creates quality books, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, magazines, multi-media and other products that help children learn both at school and at home.   

Website: www.scholastic.asia/en

Sheth Publishing House

Sheth Publishing House are publishers and manufacturers of children's books, charts, etc. Their range consists of more than 1000 titles, including large print story books, board books, ELT, colouring & activity books, classics, moral stories phonetics, pre-school practice books, and grammar books. All their products are available for rights, co-editions and language translations. Printing orders for long and short runs are also undertaken.

Website: www.shethbooks.com
Email: [email protected]

Shogakukan Asia / 小学館

Shogakukan Asia is a publisher of children's books and manga comic books for English readers based in Singapore and the ASEAN region.

Website: www.shogakukan.asia
Email: [email protected]

Singapore Centre for Chinese Language

The establishment of the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language (SCCL) was announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in 2008, and was opened by founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew in 2009. SCCL is a teacher training and research centre that aims to enhance the effectiveness of teaching Chinese as a second language in a bilingual context with the philisophy of Research - Verify - Teach.

新加坡华文教研中心由新加坡李显龙先生于2008年宣布成立,并于2009年由建国总理李光耀先生开幕。本着“先研-后证-再教”的教研理念新加坡华文教研中心通过提供优质的师资培训课程、专业咨询及教学研究项目,加强双语环境下华文作为第二语言的教学成效。

Website: www.sccl.sg
Email: [email protected]

Singapore Kindness Movement

Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) is a non-profit, non-government, as well as a registered charity and Institution of Public Character. We seek to encourage everyone to start, show and share kindness and our mission is to build a gracious Singapore. We aim to encourage the individual to internalise courtesy, kindness and consideration through campaigns, events and project collaborations.

Website: www.kindness.sg
Email: [email protected]

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is a global organisation committed to the creation of quality children’s books. Membership in the SCBWI is open to aspiring and published writers and illustrators, as well as anyone with a passion for children’s literature. 

Website: www.scbwi.org
Email: [email protected]

Straits Times Press

Straits Times Press is a turnkey publisher with the expertise to publish across a broad spectrum of books in various categories. Straits Times Press also publishes high-end, high quality illustrated general trade books, and maintains long-term co-publishing relationships with newsroom, learning institutes and think-tanks of repute in the region.

Website: www.stpressbooks.com.sg 
Email: [email protected]

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World Scientific Publishing

World Scientific Publishing is a leading independent publisher of books and journals for the scholarly, research, professional and educational communities. The company publishes about 600 books annually, and about 130 journals in various fields. World Scientific collaborates with prestigious organisations like the Nobel Foundation, US National Academies Press, amongst others, to bring high quality academic and professional content to researchers and academics worldwide. Since 2012, under its WS Education imprint, World Scientific has also published scientific children's books such as Fearless Frosty, Scott & Witty Wikky, and San's Home.

Website: www.worldscientific.com
Email: [email protected]