ASK! about Recreation

You’ll be able to find information about the soccer ball as well as a whole lot more about soccer in the following books:

Boots, balls & haircuts! : an illustrated history of football from then to now by Hunter Davis
London : Cassell Illustrated, 2003
Call No.: 796.33409 DAV -[REC]
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Book Description: “From the history of the ball to the history of football haircuts, this book examines every facet of football beyond the rule and goals to the fans, commentators, merchandise, books and even art it has inspired.”

100 years of football : the FIFA centennial book by Christiane Eisenberg et al.
Malaysia : Pelican, 2004
Call No.: q796.33409 ONE -[REC]
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Book Description: “From ancient ball games, which were the direct ancestors of the modern game, via the establishment of official rules in a London pub in 1863 to the present day, this comprehensive book celebrates the richness, diversity and extraordinary history of association football. The laws of the game, styles of play, stadia, media, money and politics are all discussed in this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the noble game.”

Game of two halves : football yesterday & today by Tim Glynne-Jones
London : Carlton, 2003
Call No.: 796.3340941 GLY -[REC]
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Book Description: “Football Yesterday and Today is a photo book in the iconic style of America Yesterday and Today, with the past in evocative black and white side by side with the present in vivid colour.”

FIFA museum collection : 1000 years of football by Fédération internationale de football association
New York, N.Y. : Edition Q, c1996
Call No.: R q796.33 FIF
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Book Description: “A comprehensive collection of soccer memorabilia brought to life in this publication from the FIFA Musuem Collection. It includes nearly 2000 historically significant and decorative exhibits, including woodcuts, etchings, engravings, lithographs, oil paintings, photographs, sculptures and memorabilia such as team apparel, balls, medals, cups, posters, postcards, caricatures, and toys and games.”

Information regarding the history of the soccer ball can also be found at these websites:
Soccer Ball World
FIFA.com

All websites last accessed 20th June, 2006.

Answered by Nur Hakim Low, Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Fiction.

Some recommended books:

The Big Stone / by Michael Garland.
Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, 1999
Call No.: JP English GAR
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Stanley, flat again! / by Jeff Brown; pictures by Scott Nash
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2003
Call No.: JS English BRO
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After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.

Flat Stanley / by Jeff Brown; pictures by Scott Nash
New York : HarperTrophy, 2003
Call No.: JS English BRO
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After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages.

Answered by Mr Lim Sieu Pin, Librarian, Children’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Fiction.

For the younger child who is more reluctant to read, you may wish to pick up a copy of our booklist “Stories for Young Readers”. The following books may also be of interest. Dr Seuss and Maurice Sendak have also written other popular books.

Some recommended books:

Outside over there / by Maurice Sendak; Calligraphy by Jeanyee Wong
New York : Harper & Row, c1981
Call No.: JP English SEN
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Horton hatches the egg / by Dr Seuss.
London : Collins, 2004
Call No.: JP English SEU
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Hugh Lofting’s Travels of Doctor Dolittle/ by Al Perkins; illustrated by Phillip Wende.
London : Collins & Harvill, 1968.
Call No.: JP English LOF
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Answered by Mr Lim Sieu Pin, Librarian, Children’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Pets and Animals.

Here are some recommended websites which elaborates about hoofed animals and in addition give you a wide variety of examples of hoofed animals.

1) http://www.cpb.ouhsc.edu/okc/okczoo/hoof.html

2) http://www.gel-communications.co.uk/
animalfun/html/hoofed.html

3) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
mammals/classification/Artiodactyls.shtml

For recording the sounds of various animals, you can always proceed to the Singapore Zoo and record the
wide variety of animals of your choice. You can do that with a tape recorder and a cassette or any other audio recording system. In addition, you can also visit these websites which provide recorded sounds of many different type of animals:

1) http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/ask/wp-admin/source:
(a website which play the sounds of mammals in Australia)

2) http://members.tripod.com/
Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
(a website which play the sounds of a wide variety of animals
from around the world)

3) http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/ask/wp-admin/source:
(you can also have fun by trying some quizzes here related to animal sounds)

Animals that have a backbone are known as vertebrates.You can find a huge non-comprehensive collection of vertebrate animals here:

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/animals.html

Animals that have no backbone are non as invertebrates. Here ios a website which shows a variety of invertebrates

/Animals/AnimalIndexInv.htm

You can find a comprehensive explanation on vertebrates and non- vertebrates animals at this 2 websites :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrates

All websites last accessed 20th June, 2006.

Here are some recommended titles from the Library:

Animal classification: a guide to vertebrates / by Polly Goodman.
London : Hodder Wayland, 2004
Call No.: J English 596 GOO
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Animals without backbones / by Elaine Pascoe; photography by Dwight Kuhn.
New York: PowerKids Press., c2003
Call No.: J English 592 PAS
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The animal kingdom: a guide to vertebrate classification and biodiversity / by Kate Whyman.
Hove : Wayland, 1999
Call No.: J English 596 WHY
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Answered by Mr Zulkifli Amin, Librarian, Children’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Pets and Animals.

You may refer to the FAQ About Pet Frogs: Species Caresheet section from the following URL:
http://blogs.nlb.gov.sg/ask/wp-admin/source:
It provides guides to diet, housing and habits of popular species of pet frogs.

All websites last accessed 20th June, 2006.

Some recommended books relating to the subject:

Growth and life cycles: tadpole to frog / by Jim Pipe.
London : Aladdin/Watts, 2005
Call No.: JP English 571.8 PIP
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Life cycles: from tadpole to frog / by Sally Hewitt.
London : QED Pub., 2005
Call No.: JP English 571.8 HEW
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The trouble with tadpoles: a first look at the life cycle of a frog / by Sam Godwin; illustrated by Simone Abel.
Minneapolis, Minn. : Picture Window Books, 2005
Call No.: JP English 597.8 GOD
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Answered by Ms Norlizah Mohd Juffri, Librarian, Children’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Recreation.

Badminton probably originated in India as a grownup’s version of a very old children’s game known in England as battledore and shuttlecock, the battledore being a paddle and the shuttlecock a small feathered cork, now usually balled a “bird.”

Played for centuries by children in India, Siam, and Japan, this was a cooperative game in which the players worked together to keep the “bird” in the air for as long as possible.

A net was added and the game had become a competitive sport called “poona” by the 1860s, when British Army officers were playing it in India. Some of them brought equipment back to England and introduced the new sport there during the early 1870s.

It was played at a lawn party held by Duke of Beaufort at his country place, Badminton, in 1873, and it became known as “the Badminton game” among various guests who introduced it to other friends.

The Bath Badminton Club, organized in 1877, developed the first written rules, which have remained essentially the same. In 1893, the Badminton Association of England was founded as the first national governing body and the first All-England championship was held in 1899.

Badminton became a professional sport in the 1980s, when the IBF established the World Grand Prix Circuit. The U. S. Open, which offers $200,000 in prize money, is the highest paying tournament on the tour. The Grand Prix Finals tournament has a total purse of $350,000.

Shot Technique in Badminton:
a) Forearm Technique
b) Singles Service
c) Doubles Service
d) Forehand
e) Backhand
f) Smashing
g) Drop shots
h) Backhand clearing
i) Net shots
j) Smash returning
k) Slicing
l) Backhand Smashing

Source: Badminton – King Fahd University
of Petroleum and Minerals
All websites last accessed 20th June, 2006.

Some recommended books relating to the subject:

Badminton: Technique, Tactics, Training / by John Edwards.
Marlborough : Crowood, 1997
Call No.: English 796.345 EDW -[REC]
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Badminton: Mastering the basics with the Personalized Sports Instruction System / by Michael W. Metzler.
Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, c2001
Call No.: English 796.345 MET -[REC]
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A basic guide to badminton / by Jeff Klemzak.
Glendale, Calif. : Griffin Pub., c1998
Call No.: English 796.345 KLE -[REC]
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Answered by Mr Koh Chee Boon, Librarian, Children’s Services

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Kids ASK! about Recreation.

Some recommended books relating to the subject:

McDonald’s Happy Meal toys in the U.S.A / by Terry & Joyce Losonsky.
Atglen, Pa. : Schiffer Pub., c1995.
Call No.: YR English q688.720973075 LOS
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McDonald’s Happy Meal toys from the nineties / by Joyce and Terry Losonsky.
Atglen, Pa. : Schiffer Pub., c1995.
Call No.: English 688.720973075 LOS
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Grinding it out : the making of McDonald’s / by Ray Kroc ; with Robert Anderson.
New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1987
Call No.: English 647.9573 KRO
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Answered by Ms Foo Soo Chin, Librarian, Children’s Services

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ASK! about History

The government had to pass laws to protect the workers’ rights because factories were built for mass production during the Industrial Revolution and many workers were working long hours and under-paid. In addition, the working condition was bad. The law was also to deter child labour as it was the cheapest.

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ASK! about Computers & IT

“The blog (from Web log) is a new form of electronic publishing on the World Wide Web. A typical blog takes the form of an online diary consisting of short entries displayed in reverse-chronological order with links to other blogs or Web sites commented on by the blog’s author. Blogs may contain random personal observations, or they may be devoted to a single subject such as politics. A blog may be written by one or more people, and it may be read by an audience ranging from friends and acquaintances to enough readers to make the blog a profitable publishing enterprise for its author.”

Source: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia , Last accessed 16th June 2006.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is available at the multimedia stations in the libraries.

Answered by Norasyikin Binte Ahmad Ismail, Librarian

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ASK! about Cookery

Here are some suggested cookbooks from the library with kimchi recipes that you can try at home:

Eating Korean: from barbecue to kimchi, recipes from my home by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2005.
Call No.: 641.59519 LEE -[COO]

The book of Kimchi by Chun Ja Lee.
Seoul, Korea : Korean Overseas Information Service, [1999]
Call No.: q641.616 LEE -[COO]

The kimchee cookbook : fiery flavors and cultural history of Korea’s national dish by Kim Man-Jo
S.l. : Periplus, c1999.
Call No.: 641.616 KIM -[COO]

Answered by Joycelyn Tay, Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services

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