Visitors at the 2nd Can Tho Book Festival. (Photo courtesy of the organising board) Can Tho (VNA) – The 2nd Can Tho Book Festival, which has opened at Luu Huu Phuoc Park in Ninh Kieu district,features a large collection of children’s books.
Organised by the city’s Department of Information andCommunication, the event features 195,000 titles, including hundreds of titlesfor children and teenagers, sold at discounts of up to 40 percent at 300stalls.
The week-long event has attracted more than a hundredinternational and Vietnamese publishers, distributors and othercompanies.
Seven foreign publishers, such as Penguin, Cambridge and Oxford,are also featured.
Among the popular titles on display are children’s books by theKim Dong Publishing House, one of the country’s leading publishers forchildren.
Three of Kim Dong’s best-selling titles, Hoang Mai Quyen’s BupBe Co Don (Lonely Doll), Tran Tung Chinh’s Trai Mua Xuan (SpringCamp) and Mai Buu Minh’s Chien Cong Sieu Pham (SupernaturalPowers), have been reprinted.
The books feature the lives of children from the Mekong River Deltaregion.
Quyen’s Bup Be Co Don is a collection of 13 shortstories about the lives and first loves of rural teenagers.
While Chinh’s Trai Mua Xuan includes stories about ayoung teacher and his secondary school students, Minh’s Chien Cong SieuPham features a group of boys and girls who discover the world indifferent ways.
The three writers will sign their books for readers on March 30.
The HCM City Book Distribution Company took part in the festivalfor the first time, displaying 26,000 copies by veteran authors at 20 stalls.
The company has invited cultural researchers and authors to takepart in seminars and forums about reading, and opened a space to display 1,000copies of books on President Ho Chi Minh.
More than 150 photographs capturing the Mekong Delta region and CanTho in the past and today are also displayed.
“We hope our event will attract more than 40,000 visitors,” saidLe Van Tam, deputy head of the festival’s organising board.
Many books will be given away for free on March 31, the last dayof the event.-VNA
Organised by the city’s Department of Information andCommunication, the event features 195,000 titles, including hundreds of titlesfor children and teenagers, sold at discounts of up to 40 percent at 300stalls.
The week-long event has attracted more than a hundredinternational and Vietnamese publishers, distributors and othercompanies.
Seven foreign publishers, such as Penguin, Cambridge and Oxford,are also featured.
Among the popular titles on display are children’s books by theKim Dong Publishing House, one of the country’s leading publishers forchildren.
Three of Kim Dong’s best-selling titles, Hoang Mai Quyen’s BupBe Co Don (Lonely Doll), Tran Tung Chinh’s Trai Mua Xuan (SpringCamp) and Mai Buu Minh’s Chien Cong Sieu Pham (SupernaturalPowers), have been reprinted.
The books feature the lives of children from the Mekong River Deltaregion.
Quyen’s Bup Be Co Don is a collection of 13 shortstories about the lives and first loves of rural teenagers.
While Chinh’s Trai Mua Xuan includes stories about ayoung teacher and his secondary school students, Minh’s Chien Cong SieuPham features a group of boys and girls who discover the world indifferent ways.
The three writers will sign their books for readers on March 30.
The HCM City Book Distribution Company took part in the festivalfor the first time, displaying 26,000 copies by veteran authors at 20 stalls.
The company has invited cultural researchers and authors to takepart in seminars and forums about reading, and opened a space to display 1,000copies of books on President Ho Chi Minh.
More than 150 photographs capturing the Mekong Delta region and CanTho in the past and today are also displayed.
“We hope our event will attract more than 40,000 visitors,” saidLe Van Tam, deputy head of the festival’s organising board.
Many books will be given away for free on March 31, the last dayof the event.-VNA
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