To facilitate the diverse forms of reading, the public libraries of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) have held various events to promote reading over the years, including lectures, workshops, parent-child activities, reading activities, concerts, and creative competitions, to educate members of the public on the advantages of reading and promote an atmosphere of reading in the city. During leisure time, people could nourish their lives with knowledge, look for like-minded fellows, experience the diverse practice of knowledge cheerfully, and read through every page of a good life from static to dynamic, from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional perspective, through participating in the events.

This issue introduces the four parent-child activities organized by IC’s public libraries from the perspective of parents, including “I Love Little Dots”, a parent-child physical interaction workshop that combines stories and music to facilitate physical interaction between young children and their parents; “Reading Promotes Growth”, a parent-child reading promotion activity by reading through picture books in multiple ways such as speeches and games; “Building the Future”, a parent-child picture book interactive theatre workshop in which the plots of picture books are presented in the form of drama, building a bridge for parent-child interaction and communication; and “Being a Child’s Emotion Coach — Q&A on Emotional Education” for participants to learn how to deal with children’s emotions. It is believed that readers could learn more about the diverse platforms provided by the libraries for parent-child reading through the activities.

The “Library Handbook” introduces the “Pen and Paper Is More Than One Possibility”, a pop-up book workshop in which participants will, with the guidance of the instructor, create their own unique popup book step by step, from painting and paper carving to organizing and other processes. The “Library Portrait” features an interview with a volunteer of IC’s public libraries Chan Ka Wai, in which she shared her bond with books and her services in the libraries. Morus Tou, the interviewee of this issue of the “Author’s Say”, released a storybook on children’s games, the Mak Mak’s Adventure • Macao last year. Apart from unveiling the life experience of “Mak Mak”, the author also left an “after credit scene” in the book, which he expects readers could discover through reading the book carefully.

Children can read thousands of special and interesting books in various forms. Readers are expected to learn from this issue about the diverse and various reading promotion activities of IC’s public libraries, through which the wonderful door of knowledge will be opened and the infinite possibility of parent-child reading will be found.