| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher Educator, Clinical Psychologist |
| Location | Singapore |
| Introduction | I am a Teacher Educator (specializing in gifted education) and a Clinical Psychologist by profession. My heart is in connecting with gifted children and high ability learners (and their families and friends and pets and plants too, if you may) who are looking for kindred spirits. For months now, my teacher-students have been asking me for referrals of possible books that they could feature in their classrooms or use for discussion. Thus, the idea of developing this kind of resource blossomed. And with the help of our IT-and-Blogger Expert Mary Daradar, this new home of Gathering Books is born. Over and above that, I am a celebrified geek who has a deep yearning for good books and celebrates narratives that heal the soul and move one’s sensibilities. I believe that books have the power to change one’s life and allow one to escape in an alternative plane of existence where storytellers, magicians, and witty sharp-tongued children rule the universe. |
| Interests | postmodern picture books, bibliotherapy, poetry, coffee, live performances, loud laughter, gothic dark and surreal narratives, academic discourse (ugh), and fairy tales |
| Favorite Music | Joni Mitchell, Ingrid Michaelson, Jane Siberry, Cynthia Alexander, Jill Sobule, Gregory and the Hawk, indie female acoustic singer-songwriters speak to me |
| Favorite Books | The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, Falling Angels by Colin Thompson, Last Alchemist by Colin Thompson, Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials, Clive Barker’s Abarat, Barker’s Weaveworld, Imajica, Isabel Allende’s Stories of Eva Luna (and many more) |
