The Hong Kong International Young Readers Festival

Children have a natural curiosity for the world yet for most this is lost over time. Authors Theadora Whittington and Isabelle Demenge, have between them, written a series of children’s travel books and books about Hong Kong and biodiversity. They disc...

Jennifer Wong is the author of two poetry collections including the most recent Goldfish. Jennifer Wong is also a poet and has run many creative writing workshops in Hong Kong and the UK.

Jennifer Wong tells Noreen Mir why she is interested in poet...

Alan Gibbons is an award-winning writer and independent educational consultant. He has appeared on the BBC Education programme Writer’s Block, Radio 4’s Front Row, The World Tonight and The Message programme and has consulted on a series of short fil...

Morris Gleitzman is a bestselling Australian children’s author. His books explore serious and sometimes confronting subjects in humorous and unexpected ways. His titles include Two Weeks With The Queen, Grace, Doubting Thomas, Bumface, Give Peas A Chan...

The parent-child relationship can be complex, long-lasting, fragile, strong and fraught with difficulties at the same time. How do you manage and nurture it through different stage? Authors Monica Lim, Reenita Malhotra and Theadora Whittington share th...

Anna Ginsburg, 15, was inspired to write her first novel, The Tiger in the Stone (published 2012), when something from a curio shop in Italy caught her attention. Anna was born and raised in Hong Kong and now studies in Chinese International School. A...

Noreen Mir hears from a couple of heavy weight authors- Monica Lim and Reenita Malhotra, they are the authors of this year's young reader's festival and they talk about mother-daughter relationships!

Kate Forsyth wrote her first novel at the age of seven, and is now the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of thirty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both adults and children. She joined Noreen Mir to talk abo...

Isabelle Demenge has lived many lives: corporate finance lawyer, mother of three boys, world traveler and writer. Facing the difficulties of traveling with children in Cambodia, she decided to write for her kids the book that she was looking for. Her b...

Theadora Whittington trained as an illustrator at the Cambridge School of Art in the UK having before worked as a barrister. She has a strong interest in the need for the protection of biodiversity and in the role of the imagination in education. She h...