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National Library of Malaysia (PNM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia (KKMM) is organising u-Pustaka Bookworm Run 2019 in conjunction with the 8th u-Pustaka anniversary. u-Pustaka, is a one-stop information gateway to millions of library collection from all over the country. Readers can borrow books online and have it delivered to their homes when they sign up for a free membership at u-Pustaka portal. Apart from borrowing books, u-Pustaka members can also get access to various kinds of e-resources provided in the portal.

The purpose of the run is to support reading activities that require a healthy lifestyle and an intelligent mind as well as providing exposure and awareness to the public on the u-Pustaka services.

What are you waiting for? Don’t miss out the fun! Register now while slots are still available. See you all there!

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Fortunately, finding English children books in Malaysia is simple. However, not all bookstores are the same. Here is my ranking of bookstores in Malaysia that carry the best English children books: 

Popular – A bookshop more suited to find Chinese-language books than English children books. Popular is not a place to find rare or unusual children books. Nearly all English children books found in Popular are the usual Disney, Barney, Dora, Sesame Street, and Ben 10 books. The best Popular branch to find children books is IPC mall (formerly, Ikano) but even then good English books are found wanting. One advantage of Popular over other bookshops is Popular carries out frequent book sales and its store members often get additional discount.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Utilise e-books or online learning system for primary school pupils to lessen the “heavy bag phenomenon”, urged education groups.

Online learning portals such as 1BestariNet should have provided ample learning material for teachers as substitute for additional workbooks without having pupils bringing extra workload to school.

National Union of Teaching Profession president Kamarozaman Abd Razak said this “heavy bag phenomenon” had often been overlooked by the ministry.

Describing the banning of unapproved workbooks as a good start, Kamarozaman said that to enhance a better learning environment, virtual learning environment (VLE) implemented by the Education Ministry could help in addressing the heavy bag issue.

“We hope the ministry provides an alternative for the teachers and students to bring fewer textbooks and workbooks to schools. Perhaps, having lockers at schools would allow the pupils to leave their textbooks in school instead of taking them home," he said.

“Plus we have the online learning portals. Teachers should be able to use this as an extension to their teaching materials instead of having more books."

He added there should be an aligned education framework as there were too many subjects for the pupils to learn at a primary level.

Parent Action Group for Education founder Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim said government should address the problem of heavy bags with e-learning alternative such as the 1BestariNet.

“If this is conducted as it was planned by the Education Ministry, we would not be discussing workbooks and heavy bag issues.

“What is important for the pupils to have is a proper balance between academic and non-academic subjects.

“A child who only concentrates on books will not be able to contribute much to society. I believe a holistic environment at schools will groom the child better,” Azimah said, adding that the additional workbooks would only burden the teachers with more work load.

“The teachers have so much on their plate. They have other responsibilities as well. I believe parents are able to guide their children with the additional workbooks at home and the pupils would not have the time to do the extra revision at school. So the books are just adding load to their bag.”