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The perfect Pip and Posy story to read on a rainy day!Play with Pip, Posy and their friends in this charming story based on the popular TV show!This action-packed picture book follows the playful games of Pip and Posy and their friends as they form a club one sunny day. But there is a secret password to learn in order to join the club, and Pip finds it a bit tricky to remember. Luckily, his best friend has a clever Pirate way to help him learn all the steps!This heartwarming story is all about overcoming a problem with the help of your friends. The TV show centres around Pip and Posy’s wonderful world of play, and is based on the bestselling books by Axel Scheffler.Look out for more stories to enjoy:The Bug HotelSnow CoachesFrankie’s Fine MonsterSummer GamesThe Christmas SnowmanPuddle Twins

The perfect Pip and Posy story to read on a rainy day!Based on the award-winning TV show, this picture book follows the playful games of two best friends who can’t wait to go puddle jumping. But wait – Posy’s old boots are too small, so she’s got new ones. But Pip is worried that the friends won’t be Puddle Twins any more because their boots won’t match!This heartwarming story is all about learning to listen to one another and make compromises with your friends. The TV show centres around Pip and Posy’s wonderful world of play, and is based on the bestselling books by Axel Scheffler.Look out for more stories to enjoy:The Bug HotelSnow CoachesFrankie’s Fine MonsterSummer GamesThe Christmas Snowman

The perfect Pip and Posy picture book for sharing with this festive season!Pip and Posy are so excited to build a snowman in the garden. They call her Snowy Joey but when the rain and sun melts their creation, Pip is very upset. Luckily, Posy has an idea to make sure Snowy Joey is never forgotten!Pip and Posy’s world is all about friendship and play, and this enchanting book is all about snowy fun and play.Listen to the free Stories Aloud audiobook read by Stephen Mangan and a full cast – just scan the QR code inside the front cover to read along with the story!Other titles in the series to collect: The Bug Hotel, Snow Coaches, Summer Games and Frankie’s Fine Monster.

The perfect Pip and Posy picture book to share this Halloween!Pip and Posy and their friends are getting dressed as spooky characters! Pip, Posy and Zac find the perfect accessories in the dressing-up. box but Frankie wants to use her face paints to turn herself into a Frankie Fine Monster! The trouble is her friends want some face paint too, and soon it is all gone . . . poor Frankie! Then, Posy has an idea that might just make Frankie the finest monster of them all.Pip and Posy’s world is all about friendship and play, and this enchanting book is full of the fun of Halloween without any of the scary spookiness!Listen to the free Stories Aloud audiobook read by Stephen Mangan and a full cast – just scan the QR code inside the front cover to read along with the story!Other titles in the series to collect: The Bug Hotel, Snow Coaches and Summer Games.

A Pip and Posy picture book celebrating friendship, teamwork, sporting games and play!Pip and Posy and their friends are playing lots of games one sunny day, and everybody wants to win! It isn’t long before they soon feel a bit grumpy when they don’t. The friends need to learn that it’s much more fun to play as a team!This is the perfect picture book to enjoy as communities come together to celebrate the 2024 Olympics, and just in time to offer a few child-friendly game ideas to play this summer.Pip and Posy’s world is all about friendship and play, and this enchanting book will help everyone remember what makes a true friend.Listen to the free Stories Aloud audiobook read by Stephen Mangan and a full cast – just scan the QR code inside the front cover to read along with the story!Other titles in the series to collect: The Bug Hotel and Snow Coaches.

本書 Lunar Boy 描寫一位來自月球的男孩 Indu，在地球上努力尋找歸屬感的故事。自從他與收養他的母親離開太空船、搬進新家庭後，生活便充滿不確定：同學認為他很奇怪、筆友的回信讓他忐忑、繼家人之間的距離也讓他不知如何融入。更讓他困擾的是，忙碌的母親似乎無暇聽他傾訴。在孤單的某一刻，他向月球呼喚，希望能回到從前的家，而月球竟回應了。隨著新年將近、約定之日逼近，Indu 在意外的地方找到友誼，也開始理解「家」的真正意義。他必須在離開與留下之間做出選擇。For fans of The Witch Boy and Squished, Lunar Boy is a must-have heartwarming coming-of-age graphic novel about a young boy from the moon who discovers a home in the most unlikely places, from debut twin creators Jes and Cin Wibowo. Indu, a boy from the moon, feels like he doesn't belong. He hasn't since he and his adoptive mom disembarked from their spaceship--their home--to live on Earth with their new blended family. The kids at school think he's weird, he has a crush on his pen pal who might not like him back, and his stepfamily doesn't seem to know what to do with him. Worst of all, Indu can't even talk to his mom about how he's feeling because she's so busy.In a moment of loneliness, Indu calls out to the moon, begging them to take him back. And against a

A new title in this hide-and-seek felt flap series for fans of Pip and Posy!Pip is looking for Posy on the campsite. He’s not under the log, near the pond or behind the tree. As the sun sets and the moon rises, Pip looks everywhere for his best friend. Where could she be? Lift the tent felt flap to find out!This study board book is a great introduction to the friendly animals you might meet when a toddler goes camping for the first time.Collect all the titles in the series: Garden, Seaside, Park, Party, Christmas, Bedtime, Farm

The Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley is home to over 470 graves connected to the city’s Japanese population. Most of these graves belong to individuals who died during the Meiji era (1868–1912), a remarkable period of modernisation and opening up of Japan that saw thousands of its inhabitants travel to other parts of the world to study, work, and settle. Who were these people? What were they doing in Hong Kong? And why were unbaptised Japanese buried in what was called at one time the ‘Protestant Cemetery’?Hong Kong’s Meiji-era Japanese community was one of two halves. Company executives sat atop the social ladder and karayuki-san, or prostitutes, occupied the lower echelons, with tradespeople and professionals somewhere in between. By revealing the personal journeys of these mostly forgotten Japanese, the authors aim to add to transnational perspectives on Hong Kong and Japan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as increase recognition of this fragmented

Step into Steve and Maggie’s fun-filled world in this party-perfect picture book based on the YouTube sensation.The perfect gift for toddlers celebrating a birthday milestoneTeaches friendship, first concepts and fun!Based on the hit YouTube series, with a focus on first words and early-years conceptsHey everyone! It’s time for Maggie's great BIG birthday! Follow Steve and Maggie as they bake a cake, try on fancy dress and decorate the house with banners and balloons, just in time for a very special surprise. Based on the hit YouTube series, this funny, engaging and beautifully-illustrated picture book is perfect for fans of Steve and Maggie's best-loved world.

Samantha Lawrence is starting fourth grade at a new school, Casteral Elementary School. On her first day of school, she runs into a bully and, as fate would have it, they are in the same class! How will they truly learn and change their preconception of each other? How will the power of friendship turn them from each other's "most hated person" to "frenemies"? ★11歲台灣女孩在10歲時開始創作的第一本英語圖文小說。以校園霸凌為題材，描寫互相化解偏見、亦敵亦友共同對抗邪惡校長的過程。

Tea drinking has a history of five thousand years in the East. The quality of tea is generally graded through sensory evaluation. That is, professionally trained tasters rely on sight, smell, and taste to judge the quality of tea. Generally speaking, as long as you go through a series of rigorous training courses and cultivation, maintain good physical fitness and sensory sensitivity at all times, and be in a stable environment, you can drink the quality of tea. Tea sensory evaluation has long been an important method for evaluating the quality and grading of tea, and is widely recognized by the tea industry.

Tuesday 12th AprilWe’re all still talking about our plans for the holidays and Fabi has had a GENIUS idea. When I get back from visiting my grandparents, we’re going to have a Finkelspark Club May Day treehouse sleepover. Can’t wait.The school holidays are coming up and Bea is excited to see family, practise magic and spend time with ALL her friends! It’d be perfect, except something’s up. Dad is OBSESSED with learning magic (he can’t even levitate a pea!) and Taffy keeps having to do some SERIOUS THINKING. What’s going on?Then Bea finds out Dad and Taffy’s secret… They want to get married! Bea’s To-Do list just got a lot longer – she’s got a wedding day to plan, MORE secrets to keep and magic to learn teach! With help from her family and friends (new, old and VERY OLD), Bea is determined to make everything PERFECT and throw the best party of the year EVER!A perfect potion of magic and mischief, DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH is THE WORST WITCH meets TOM GATES.PRAISE FOR DIARY OF AN ACCI

In Lu Xun and World Literature, Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas, and other contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. The contributors offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that engage with his writings. This volume also focuses on many facets of the publication and dissemination of Lu Xun’s works’, from printing and binding to the discussions and debates that followed their release in China and abroad. This book not only makes an important contribution to the field of Lu Xun studies, but also proposes a reexamination of the category of world literature.

This book includes two distinct parts: a reprint of the biography Stephen Smale: "The Mathematician Who Broke the Dimension Barrier" followed by new content which provides an update on Prof. Smale’s life and work to the present day. The book tells Prof. Smale’s life story, including his most important mathematical discoveries as well as his worldwide travels and other exciting adventures. It is suitable for readers interested in mathematics, mineralogy, and the esteemed career of Prof. Stephen Smale at City University of Hong Kong and beyond.

This fourth edition of Contract Law in Hong Kong is a comprehensive contemporary textbook on Hong Kong contract law written primarily for law students. The sixteen chapters of the book cover all basic contract concepts in a reader-friendly style and make ample use of case illustrations, including over 200 new cases in this new edition. The book deals with all the core areas of contract law. New legislative rules, notably the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance, have also been covered.The first two chapters introduce the major themes and explain the multiple sources of law in Hong Kong. The subsequent thirteen chapters cover the formation of a valid contract, its contents, “vitiating” elements, the consequences of illegality, the termination of contracts, and remedies for breach of contract. The book concludes with an explanation of the doctrine of privity and the legislative reform of the operation of privity in Hong Kong. Particular attention is given to what makes

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong covers some of the most serious mental health conditions that top the global disease burden and affect 3 per cent of the general population. However, most research on psychotic disorders is undertaken in the West, and few studies have been systematically carried out in Asia despite global interest in regional differences. This work offers a unique and coherent account of these disorders and their treatment in Hong Kong over the last thirty years.Chen and his research programme’s pioneering work has ranged from the impact of early intervention on outcomes and relapse prevention, to the renaming of psychosis to reduce stigma. The studies have contributed to wider international debates on the optimal management of the condition. Their investigations in semantics and cognition, as well as cognition-enhancing exercise interventions, have provided novel insights into deficits encountered in psychotic disorders and how they might be ameliorated. The re

Revitalization in Asia: Adaptive Reuse in Macao, Mumbai, and Penang offers a clear understanding of the value of sustainable adaptive reuse within an Asian context. Three highly urbanized places (Macao, Mumbai, and Penang) are considered in detail from conservation and planning perspectives (with essays and timelines for each). For each place, five case studies offer a comparative framework for understanding similarities and differences in adaptive reuse projects. Six essays examine adaptive reuse in terms of its connection to the three dimensions of sustainability, with reference to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This book is envisioned as a continuation of Asian Revitalization: Adaptive Reuse in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore.

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

In Christianity and Education in Modern China, Wong Man Kong, George Kam Wah Mak, and other contributors demonstrate how Christianity served as a driving force in the development of modern education in China. Each of the chapters offers new insights into Christian involvement in different issues concerning education in modern China. The contributors examine how Christian missionaries and Chinese Christian educators interacted with China’s social, cultural, and political contexts. Also explored are the Christian legacies of higher education in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as how the spirit of Christian higher education in modern China has been carried on in Asia. This volume suggests that Western missionary and Chinese Christian perspectives of higher education were complementary with each other in modern China.

Population ageing is a challenge to societies worldwide in terms of healthcare, social support, community infrastructure, and more. With one of the longest life expectancies in the world, Hong Kong will soon see a dramatic increase in the number of older residents together with a decrease in the old age dependency ratio. This book provides a timely examination of the current status and services available for Hong Kong’s ageing population in four key areas: general healthcare needs, such as health promotion and lifestyle modifications; specific healthcare needs, including care of chronic conditions and hip fractures; psychosocial needs for older people with intellectual disabilities and impairments, as well as the needs of their caregivers; and environmental and technological needs in relation to universal design, information and communication technology, and telehealth.Drawing from a wide range of experience in local professional settings combined with international best practices, the

Sketching Hong Kong is a panoramic record of Hong Kong by the Indonesian-Chinese painter Eddie Chau (1945-2020). A testament to geographical history, each painting is a passage in Hong Kong’s story, each stroke a moment in time. It also serves as a retrospective of Chau’s art from his early years in Bandung, his coming-of-age in Guangdong and his final decades in Hong Kong.《慢寫香港》 是畫家鄒源榮的作品集，收錄了他筆下香港地脈全景圖和不同時期的素描速寫。鄒源榮(1945-2020)是印尼華僑後代，1992年由內地移居香港，從業餘作畫到成為全職畫家，一直創作不懈。香港自從上世紀七十年代開始移山填海打造一個國際大都會，地脈及天際線就不斷移動，鄒源榮的畫作可以說是香港地理史的補遺，每一幅都抒寫着這小城的故事。守護香港的方法有很多，「記錄下來」肯定是其中之一，且彌足珍貴。Eddie Chau (1945–2020) was a Chinese painter born in Bandung, Indonesia. When the anti-Chinese riots broke out in 1965, many overseas Chinese returned home. Eventually settling in Hong Kong in 1992, Eddie became known for his panoramic watercolour landscapes of Hong Kong.