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The '''Bookworm Club''' was a Singaporean organisation devoted to promoting literacy and publishing of children's literature.
The '''Bookworm Club''' was a Singaporean organisation devoted to publishing, import, and distribution of children's literature.
==History==
==History==
The Bookworm Club was founded in the mid-to-late 1980s, by David Chong.
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 Club had a subsidiary publishing house, also under the Bookworm brand, that was responsible for publishing books under the Bookworm brand, listed below. Their best-known and best-selling product is probably the Bookworm Short Stories series, which was a favourite of school-children in the 1990s.


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 Bookworm Club was also involved in marketing and distribution of children's books. They had a particular interest in children's encyclopaedias, and were responsible for distribution of Macmillan's Encyclopaedia in Singapore.
 
The Club quietly folded sometime in late 2007 or early 2008, after purported declining readership.


The Club quietly folded sometime in 2006 or 2007, after purported declining readership.
==Products==
==Products==
===Bookworm Short Stories===
*Bookworm Annual Comics
The first of this collection (numbering 80 books) was released in 1988.
*Bookworm Adventures
===Bookworm Publications===
*Bookworm Funny Bone
*Bookworm Investigators
*Bookworm Magic Crazy
*Bookworm Picture Reader  
*Bookworm Picture Reader  
*Bookworm Science Crazy
*Bookworm Short Stories (series)
*Easy Reader (series)
*Freddie the Dragon (series)
*Smarty Magazine
*Smarty Magazine
*Bookworm Annual Comics
 
==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/19960515000000*/http://www.bookworm.com.sg/ Archived versions of the Bookworm website]

Revision as of 00:42, 15 July 2013

The Bookworm Club was a Singaporean organisation devoted to publishing, import, and distribution 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. Their best-known and best-selling product is probably the Bookworm Short Stories series, which was a favourite of school-children in the 1990s.

The Bookworm Club was also involved in marketing and distribution of children's books. They had a particular interest in children's encyclopaedias, and were responsible for distribution of Macmillan's Encyclopaedia in Singapore.

The Club quietly folded sometime in late 2007 or early 2008, after purported declining readership.

Products

  • Bookworm Annual Comics
  • Bookworm Adventures
  • Bookworm Funny Bone
  • Bookworm Investigators
  • Bookworm Magic Crazy
  • Bookworm Picture Reader
  • Bookworm Science Crazy
  • Bookworm Short Stories (series)
  • Easy Reader (series)
  • Freddie the Dragon (series)
  • Smarty Magazine

External links