The Scholastic Reading Lounge @Sunway Pyramid

Launch Ceremony feat. Dog Man’s First-in-Malaysia Mascot Appearance

Everyone has got busy lifestyle, there's time where everyone needs a break. Weekends where do family and friends usually go? Sharing is caring, there's The Scholastic Reading Lounge at Sunway Pyramid. Now you can bring your children to their reading time.

The Scholastic Reading Lounge Launched was held in Madam Kwan's restaurant at Sunway Pyramid. The reading lounge is located at Blue Atrium Level 1, just two doors away from XOX, walk towards the washroom. It's just nearby there, before the launched there were

Speech by Ms Selina Lee, VP of Scholastic Asia,

   Speech by Mr H.C.Chan, CEO of Sunway Malls & Theme Parks, and

   Speech by Mr Terence Gill, CEO of Stickman Plus

It's good that now you can also find a reading lounge in the mall, Scholastic Reading Lounge

• The first in Asia, the unique Scholastic Reading Lounge is a ‘family-friendly library’ aiming to build reading interest among children
• Featuring over 600 quality books for pre-schoolers up to young adults with highly engaging wide-range of themes and interests
• Free digital English assessment (Lexile Test) for children between 9 – 14 years old
• Children and adults can read the books for free in the lounge, up to two hours each day
• The Scholastic Reading Lounge was prior visited by YB Teo Nie Ching for a special read-aloud event with young girls, co-organised with Women’s Aid Organization
• Scholastic Reading Lounge is recognised by the KL World Book Capital as a project in supporting of KLWBC2020

• Coincides with the year Kuala Lumpur is named as World Book Capital 2020 by UNESCO
• Features first-in-Malaysia mascot appearance of Dog Man, from “Dog Man”, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, with more than 26 million copies in print and in 35 languages worldwide. The creator Dav Pilkey is recently named as Publishers Weekly’s Person of The Year for 2019.
• Coincides with Scholastic’s 100^th Anniversary with the slogan Reading is Transformational. Read On. Scholastic’s mission is to encourage the intellectual and personal growth of all children, beginning with literacy.
• Coincides with the spirit of New Year resolutions to read more books

About Scholastic (Asia) Sdn. Bhd

Scholastic (Asia) Sdn. Bhd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Scholastic Inc., a publicly held company trading on NASDAQ under SCHL that brings children's books and media to children, parents, and teachers through retail and schools with a wide selection of award-winning reading materials, effective classroom and professional resources, and library supplies.

Scholastic Asia spearheads the development and distribution of leading-edge educational products and resources, alongside the company’s bestselling children's properties such as Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Goosebumps, Geronimo Stilton, The Magic School Bus, and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

The corporate mission of Scholastic is to encourage the intellectual and personal growth of all children, beginning with literacy, the cornerstone of all learning. With 100 years of experience supporting the learning lives of children, Scholastic remains committed to providing quality, engaging content in digital and print formats for the next generation of learners, and the families and educators who guide them.

McDonald’s unveils Happy Meal Readers Programme

Good day to dear readers and visitors, how did you spend your weekend? It's Monday and I love to share with you about McDonald’s unveils Happy Meal Readers Programme.

McDonald’s has partnered with Cressida Cowell, world-renowned author of the bestselling ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ books. Cowell has written an exclusive series of 12 hardback books for McDonald’s that will not be available anywhere else in retail. The books will be available in both English and Bahasa Malaysia specifically for the Malaysian market. McDonald’s is using its Scale for Good to instil a passion for reading and to provide a moment of closeness for families. 

By making reading fun, it is possible to inspire a lifelong love of reading among kids.

My son is turning 8 years old this June, it's about time he starts reading more and good to know the books will be available in both English and Bahasa Malaysia specifically for the Malaysian market. My son reading the book series in English. 

It's good bonding time for parent and child get together. We can share our thoughts on the books we read and talk about it. By making reading fun,it is possible to inspire a lifelong love of reading among kids.

To inculcate the culture of reading among Malaysians from a young age, it starts from parents. We can make a different, we are the models to our children. Remember the saying of what monkey see, what monkey do. We can set good example to our children, they are our future and leaders.
 
It's importance of carving out family reading time, explaining and learning on new words together. It would be fun learning on types of dragons we can find in the Treetop Twin Adventures. The book series, exclusive to McDonald's.

Good news to book worms as now you can find throughout 2019, McDonald’s will be releasing one book every month. Families have the option to choose a book or a toy with every Happy Meal purchased. Now you can opt for the book instead of toy, when you ordered the Happy Meal, you can informed the staff that you prefer the book. The choice is yours you prefer the English Language or Bahasa Malaysia. 


The first book of this series was released on 10 January this year, while the second book was released on 1 February.

To make the reading experience more fun, digital versions of the books are also made available through the Happy Studio app that can be downloaded on both the Google Play Store and Apple Store. Using the app, families can read along with the story and bring the book illustrations to life.

For more infoabout Happy Meal Readers, please visit https://www.mcdonalds.com.my/en/family/happy-meal-readers

We can balance up our life as we know there's time where children need a break. The Happy Studio app is rated for children 3 years old and above.

You can select the country of Malaysia

Select the language English or Bahasa Malaysia, we selected the English.

 

There are fun games in the Happy Studio app that you can have fun playing naming a few. The making the of rocket, car, and pin ball. Fun time as parent and child can together explore the games.

I am happy seeing my son having a good time, playing making rocket and cars that he likes and think of how to pass the level.

 Don't worry it's not harsh for them, this given them the thinking hat to explore and create them. You'll be amazed on how they will react. 

There maybe chances of failing in the games but no worry we can encourage them to try again. This way we can think of what is the mistake and solutions of it. 
Just check out the video below where my son has done fail in a game but he didn't give up trying. He tried again and again until he succeed. 

Video link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwUGYwALBo&t=23s

Using the app, families can read and interact together I am happy that my son showing me on how he loves playing the app.

We can spend the time of togetherness before nap time, sleep time or 

tea break time

even before the outing. 

Talk about outing, do you know the Treetop Twins Adventures book series,

are hard back covers. It's also just nice for keeping it in our bags or mini backpack.

This book series, which chronicles the colourful adventures of the Treetop Twins

Being a parent, spending time with my boy is the most important thing for me. My boy is now soon to be 8 years old and I want him to start a reading habit. He studies most of the time and I find it's important for parent and child bonding time together.  

So it was to our pleasant surprise that, McDonald's started introducing exciting and exclusive books with every purchase of a Happy Meal. 

There will be a new book introduced every 3-4 weeks throughout this year! 
 

This means that there will be 12 different books in this series to collect from! These books will definitely be great additions to our mini library at home! This book series, which chronicles the colourful adventures of the Treetop Twins is written exclusively for McDonald’sHappy Meal Readers Programme by renowned author Cressida Cowell –you won’t get these books at retail stores. 

So guys, don’t miss out on getting these exclusive books for your kids, and let’s join McDonald’s in its quest to inculcate a reading culture among the young by promoting family togetherness.

 

About the books Treetop Twin Adventures: The Treetop Twins –Alfie 
and Asha, and Tulip and Ted –are the luckiest twins in the world. 
Their parents, Professor Penelope Treetop and Professor Pablo Treetop, have built a time machine, and they are the first family EVER to go back in time to study the age of the dinosaurs. 
Share with them in their adventures of a lifetime!
This means that there will be 12 different books in this series 
 to collect from
Let's collect them all. 
Exclusively at McDonald's Happy Meal Readers Programme.

#HappyMealReaders