Adeline Foo
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Adeline Foo is a Singaporean short story writer and children's book writer.
Adeline Foo is a Singaporean short story writer and children's book writer.
Career
Foo is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia. She started writing picture books in 2006. To date, she has written 16 books, 12 picture books. Her bestselling work is The Diary of Amos Lee which was published on 20091, it is written in simple and lucid language. She received the inaugural First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Award given by the Media Development Authority of Singapore and the National Book Development Council of Singapore. She has received support to publish 13 picture books for early readers. Three of her books have been adapted into animation shorts, with a fourth new series turned into a TV show on the MediaCorp kids' channel, okto. Foo spent half of her 15-year career in corporate public relations, and the other half in advertising agency work. She is married and a mother of three children. The Woman Behind Amos Lee: Adeline Foo » Behind the Books Welcome to The Diary of Amos Lee: I sit, I write, I flush Adeline Foo Google
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