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God's Special Someone

This is an unpublished manuscript. But whether it is published or not, I thought I'd share it with you. 


God’s Special, Special SomeoneDavid Seow and with His Grace

Pages 2-3One day the world needed someone special.So God made an extra special someone …
Pages 4-5He planned lots of wonderful things for His special someone.
Pages 6-7He chose the best mum and dad …
Pages 8-9and decided if there would be brothers and sisters
Pages 10-11He picked a cozy house on a nice street
Pages 12-13and the best grandmas and grandpas he could find
Pages 14-15He found just the right school.
Pages 16-17Then filled it with the teachers who would teach
Pages 18-19And the very best friends someone would ever meet.
Pages 20-21Now God always watches over His special someone.
Pages 22-23He smiles when His someone is nice. He frowns when his someone is naughty.
Pages 24-25He beams when His someone is brave.He cares when His  someone is scared.
Pages 26-27God’s pleased when His someone is helpful and kind.He’s peeved when hissomeone is selfish and mean.
Pages 28-29He laughs when His someone is oh so happy.He cries when His  someone is oh so sad.
Pages 30-31And whether naughty or nice, brave or scared, kind or mean, happy or sad…God will always love his special, special someone because that someone special is…
Page 32You!
The End.

Events at The Singapore Writers Festival

A Day with the Duchess and The Lion Dance have been translated into Tamil

Singapore Writers Festival 2016

Singapore Writers Festival

A work in progress: There Once was a Playground

There once was a playground…
Once, in a time so very long ago, a kind old man built a playground unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Slides of snowy mountains flowed into rivers of blueberry oceans and fields of strawberry seas. Butterflies and lightning bugs danced around windmills of giant golden daisies as silver swings swung from a celestial cathedral of stars…
And though it was as wondrous as anything could possibly be, the playground was missing the one thing that would make it perfectly complete: children who would laugh and play in it.

So the old man invited children of every color, age and faith to his magical playground. And when they were all gathered before him, he smiled and said: “I made this playground for all of you and you’re welcome to stay and play as long as you like. But before you do, there are three simple rules you must follow. Now listen carefully:  1.) Always be kind 2.) Always play nice 3.) And always remember to share and take care of the playground.”

Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan

Recently I was lucky enough to meet Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau of one of my favourite bands, Simple Plan. As both of them have kids, I took the opportunity to give them copies of my books A Day with the Duchess and A Royal Adventure. It was a pleasure meeting both of them who couldn't have been nicer.

Pierre Bouvie and Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan

Recently I was lucky enough to meet Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau of one of my favourite bands, Simple Plan. As both of them have kids, I took the opportunity to give them copies of my books A Day with the Duchess and A Royal Adventure. It was a pleasure meeting both of them who couldn't have been nicer.

Pierre Bouvier and Simple Plan

Recently I was lucky enough to meet Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau of one of my favourite bands, Simple Plan. As both of them have kids, I took the opportunity to give them copies of my books A Day with the Duchess and A Royal Adventure. It was a pleasure meeting both of them who couldn't have been nicer.

Making Brushing Fun

Take it from me, writing a book with a moral or a lesson isn't easy. I've worked on some commissioned books and it takes all your creative energy and stretches it to the limits and then some.

Most people think that writing children's picture books are easy and that's why so many people think that they can do it. "Oh I'll write a picture children's book, it'll be easy!"


Those of us who have made it our living know otherwise. You have to take so many things into consideration and the most important message of all is how to get your message across in 600 to 800 words?

Written by first time author, Srividhya Venkat, this is a great bedtime story for kids who don't want to brush their teeth or clean up in any way.  In this story Riya has to teach her brother Rohan the importance of brushing his teeth, washing his hands and tidying up. Pretty mundane stuff but she cleverly uses the family dog as a device to get him to clean up.

This is a neat little book about the importance of personal hygiene with quirky accompanying illustrations that highlight the importance of the authors message.

All too Much for Oliver... until it's not.

'All too Much for Oliver' is a touching story about a young boy who finds the busy world around him a bit too much for his liking. Truth be told, the busy uncontrollable world we live in is too much for some adults as well. 

Oliver is a highly sensitive child who does not like loud noises or crowds and he prefers to stay indoors and play in the tranquility of his own room rather than in a chaotic playground or the packed neighbourhood pool with children and grown ups belly flopping and splashing about uncontrollably. 

That is until Odile moves in next door and opens up new  experiences for him. Because of their fast friendship, Oliver dares to venture to a playground with her and he  even attends Odile's birthday party where he joins the many guests in all the noisy celebratory activities.

Though Odile provides him the key to a world outside the comfort of his carefully controlled playroom, it's Oliver who ultimately unlocks the door to the loud and crowded world that he bravely steps into on his own terms and in his  own time.

There are a lot of sensitive children -- and adults too -- just like Oliver who are so deeply misunderstood and judged. As a child I was an introvert and not very sociable,  some would even say I'm socially awkward, brash and some would say even worse. So I can relate to this book very well.

'All too Much for Oliver' is a sweet, sensitive story written with a lot of heart  and understanding by Leila Boukarim and charmingly illustrated by Barbara Moxham.