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Everybody Feels..Happy or Angry Books Review
Everybody feels…Angry! and Everybody Feels..Happy! are great books from Scholastic to address emotions with our young readers. As children, they might not be able to understand why they feel a certain way when certain situations happen in their lives. Therefore, I think books about feelings are great to teach kids how to handle their emotions better. Both the books revolve around the lives of Sophie and Ethan and their feelings while playing with their friends. There is actually more than one feeling presented in each book. The colourful illustrations make the book very attractive to young readers. The words are short and descriptive. The story line takes readers from before…
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Falling in Love with Russian Fairytales
First of all, thank you, Leona and Harry, for this invitation. I’m extremely blessed to be able to join MPO for yet another magical experience! This time is Russian Fairytales and I’m swept away by my imaginary prince already. It begins with a 6-minute opening. OH-MY-HEART, it is an invitation to go on an adventure with a person in search of love. The music just echoed the tender, vulnerable and a longing heart for someone he has yet to meet. To me, even at the very beginning, he knows this person exists. Yes, I want to journey together! The chase in Bartok, translated through violin, is presented by the very…
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I love you too! By Eve Bunting
My children really grew up with Scholastic books. Today’s review is I Love You Too! By Eve Bunting illustrated by Melissa Sweet. This is a very high quality hard cover book, and really even the pages are hard cover. There is no fear of this book ever tearing. It makes a really beautiful gift to mums with toddlers who enjoy bedtime reading. The pages are full illustrated, edge to edge. I love the simple to read short paragraphs that are catchy. Most importantly I love the message behind the book. It talks about living life as an example and loving your mothers by appreciating them with gifts. The real story…
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THE RETURN OF A MALAYSIAN VIRTUOSO TO DEWAN FILHARMONIK PETRONAS!
Malaysian prodigy and piano virtuoso, Tengku Irfan, returns to Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS (DFP) for the second time this year to present dazzling concerts with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO). After enthralling audience with his brilliant improvisation of ‘cadenzas’ in his début concerts with the MPO in 2009, Irfan has soared high and achieved the impossible; he became a prize winner at the Aspen Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2 Competition, the ASCAP Charlotte Bergen and ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer awards, and has collaborated with orchestras such as the Singapore Symphony, Sao Paulo State Youth Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra and Estonian National Symphony. Classical music luminaries that have performed with him includes Neeme…
