YRF 2021

To celebrate 10 years of the Young Readers Festival, we presented a hybrid programme of virtual and live school visits. We partnered with Bring Me a Book, to include Chinese author events, and other Chinese language authors including Dai Yun from Singapore, Lin Po Ting from Taiwan and Feng Zikai Award winners Huang Li and Yu Liqiong from China, as well as Shana Cheung from Hong Kong. In another highlight of the 2021 YRF two popular authors, Julia Lovell and Jerry Craft, appeared in one-off events available to all Hong Kong schools. Historian and translator Lovell introduced a new generation of fans to one of world literature’s most memorable superheroes, the Monkey King., while graphic novelist Craft shared drawings and stories from New Kid and Class Act, his funny and heartbreaking take on fitting in at Middle School.