{"id":597,"date":"2025-10-29T04:52:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:24:00","slug":"pun-intended-how-humour-unlocks-laughs-lessons-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/pun-intended-how-humour-unlocks-laughs-lessons-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Pun Intended: How Humour Unlocks Laughs, Lessons, and\u00a0Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Humour isn\u2019t just for laughs \u2013 it\u2019s a powerful tool to keep distracted minds focused and make even the most serious lessons stick. But weaving humour into a story isn\u2019t always easy. It takes skill and creativity to strike the right balance, to ensure that jokes land with kids of all ages. Join us as authors share their strategies for weaving in wit, LOL moments, and clever twists that keep kids hooked.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Colin Goh is an award-winning filmmaker, illustrator, writer, and multimedia producer. He is also an attorney with qualifications in New York, England and Singapore. He is the writer and illustrator behind DIM SUM WARRIORS, a Mandarin\/English bilingual iPad app and graphic novel series about kung fu-fighting dumplings that Fast Company named one of the Top 10 Coolest Original Digital Comics and which won an Honorable Mention in Publishers Weekly\u2019s Critics\u2019 Poll of the Best Graphic Novels of 2012. In August 2017, he adapted Dim Sum Warriors into a stage musical that played to full houses in Shanghai\u2019s prestigious Theatre Above.<\/p>

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    Ken Kwek is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and author with over twenty film, theatre and book credits to his name. His middle school books include \u201cTimothy and the Phubbers\u201d and \u201cKelly and the Krumps\u201d, which won the 2020 Hedwig Anuar Children\u2019s Book Award.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    Eliza Teoh, a former journalist and news editor, is the author of the national bestselling Ellie Belly series. She is also the founder of Bubbly Books, a children\u2019s book publishing company dedicated to creating books that children love to read. She is passionate about inculcating a love for reading and writing in children and has been a facilitator for the GEP\u2019s Creative Writing Programme over the last 10 years. She is also an animal rights advocate and aerial sports enthusiast.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Humour isn\u2019t just for laughs \u2013 it\u2019s a powerful tool to keep distracted minds focused and make even the most serious lessons stick. But weaving humour into a story isn\u2019t always easy. It takes skill and creativity to strike the right balance, to ensure that jokes land with kids of all ages. Join us as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbf.techzu.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}