Enjoy this year’s exciting collection of novels, short stories and poems
Books specially selected for 7 to 14 year olds!
Check out our literary calendar
Explore the full range of READ! Singapore’s literary collections
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
Rita Mae Brown (1944 – present)
Why can’t people sit and read books and be nice to each other?
David Baldacci (1960 – present)
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
Anne Fadiman (1953 – present)
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919)
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
Francois Mauriac (1901 – 1970)
A good book is an event in my life.
Stendhal (1783 – 1842)
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Malcolm X (1965 – present)
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935)
