This is rather unexpected!
Sir Fong 2: Fur-o-cious, a Sir Fong book of student and teacher humour released in 2006, is the 7th Most Borrowed Book on the Young People English Title (Singapore Collection) chart!
Looking at a local chart dominated ghost stories and Ho Mingfong books (that's MOE appointed literature text), this is quite a happy achievement!
Especially if mine is the only comic book to break into that chart!
Word-of-mouth is very important in the National Library circuit. If someone likes your book, he/she will recommend it to others. Since Fur-o-cious was released in 2006, that means readers have been recommending my book to friends slowly but surely for the last 3 years plus!
I am also surprised because based on my regular visits to National Library's online on-loan site, "Sir Fong's Adventures In Science Book 1" is clearly more popular than "Fur-o-cious". I have several theories as to why "Book 1" haven't yet made it but "Fur-o-cious" did, including the fact that "Book 1" is only available in the library for less than 1.5 years while "Fur-o-cious" was there for 3+ years. But those are just theories and not worth dwelling over without facts!
Nevertheless, this is a piece of wonderful and encouraging news! And I can do a Happy Countdown tonight!
2 comments:
Happy 2010 Otto! =) Hope u hav a great yr ahead and hope Sir Fong will continue its fabulous run!
Thanks Motley! I am working on the new Book 3 now! :D
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