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The '''Bookworm Club''' was a Singaporean organisation devoted to | The '''Bookworm Club''' was a Singaporean organisation devoted to promoting literacy and publishing of children's literature. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The Bookworm Club was founded in the mid-to-late 1980s. | The Bookworm Club was founded in the mid-to-late 1980s, by David Chong. | ||
The Club quietly folded sometime in 2006 or 2007, after declining readership. | The Club had a subsidiary publishing house, also under the Bookworm brand, that was responsible for publishing books under the Bookworm brand, listed below. | ||
The Bookworm Club was also involved in marketing and distribution of children's books. They had a particular interest in children's encyclopaedias, and was responsible for distribution of Macmillan's Encyclopaedia in Singapore. | |||
The Club quietly folded sometime in 2006 or 2007, after purported declining readership. | |||
==Products== | ==Products== | ||
===Bookworm Short Stories=== | ===Bookworm Short Stories=== | ||
The first of this collection (numbering 80 books) was released in 1988. | The first of this collection (numbering 80 books) was released in 1988. | ||
===Bookworm Publications=== | |||
*Bookworm Picture Reader | |||
*Smarty Magazine | |||
*Bookworm Annual Comics | |||
Revision as of 23:47, 14 July 2013
The Bookworm Club was a Singaporean organisation devoted to promoting literacy and publishing of children's literature.
History
The Bookworm Club was founded in the mid-to-late 1980s, by David Chong.
The Club had a subsidiary publishing house, also under the Bookworm brand, that was responsible for publishing books under the Bookworm brand, listed below.
The Bookworm Club was also involved in marketing and distribution of children's books. They had a particular interest in children's encyclopaedias, and was responsible for distribution of Macmillan's Encyclopaedia in Singapore.
The Club quietly folded sometime in 2006 or 2007, after purported declining readership.
Products
Bookworm Short Stories
The first of this collection (numbering 80 books) was released in 1988.
Bookworm Publications
- Bookworm Picture Reader
- Smarty Magazine
- Bookworm Annual Comics