About US  INTRODUCTION Stanford House was founded in 1992. Throughout the years, it has successfully developed as a personal resource centre of many educators. It is also one of the leading book distributors in Hong Kong, specifically providing English learning resources. MISSION English is an international media of communication. The foundation is very important. Our goal is to provide quality English learning resources to our learners particularly from kindergarten to secondary school levels. We hope our teachers could have powerful tools for teaching. Our students could have effective support for learning.   PRODUCTS and RESOURCES Our materials are mostly sourced from overseas well-recognized educational publishers. They are mainly from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia etc.   The materials include: Contemporary  Fictions                       Ideal for leisure reading. Levelled Educational Readers  Mostly Reading Recovery Levels (RRL) and correlate to the Hong Kong curriculum. Coursebooks    Meet the Hong Kong curriculum modules. Teacher Resources  Include photocopiable activities with teacher's guide and lesson plan. Big Books Ideal for class shared-reading. Students Supplementary Exercises Include grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing practice books. CD ROM and ebooks Ideal for classroom teaching and self-learning. Content Area Readings Provide models of reading and writing across the curriculum. ACTIVITIES and SERVICES Each year, our specialists attend various key international educational conferences. Their role is to explore new teaching ideas and materials introducing to Hong Kong. Apart from promoting what we have, Stanford House also listens to our clients and search for what they need!  Here are our key services:   English Resource Centre It is a showroom displaying the key representing series. It is ideal for educators and learners to search resources. Direct Visit We have a strong team of Resource Associates who visit schools everyday to provide updated English resources. English Resource Mobile Centre (ERMC) With the mobile truck, resources are actually brought to schools for teachers' review. Teachers welcome this service very much because it is very convenient and it eliminates the barriers of time and distance. Book Exhibition Stanford House provides English book exhibition service to schools. In average, we organize more than 140 school exhibitions in an academic year. We hope our students' interests of reading could be promoted through this activity. Their English skills could be improved as well. Therefore, in addition to those contemporary bestsellers, the educational readers with careful control on languages and themes are also our main selections of exhibits. Adoption Inspection To make sure our teachers are receiving effective teaching tools, we have correlated our materials to the HK curriculum and to the local recommended textbooks as well. Teachers could request for adoption inspection purpose. Library Service We have a wide range of Library selections which are suitable for primary to secondary school levels. We could provide tender supply for central library as well as the book packaging services. Office﹕Unit 612, 6th Floor, Citimark, 28 Yuen Shun Circuit, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong 辦公室﹕香港新界沙田小瀝源源順圍28號都會廣場 6樓612室 Tel 電話﹕+852 2330 2533 Fax 傳真﹕+852 2330 3598 Email﹕info@stanfordhouse.com.hk 網址﹕http://www.stanfordhouse.com.hk

The Hong Kong International Literary Festival         The Hong Kong International Literary Festival is organised and coordinated by Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited, a registered company limited by guarantee that is run as a not-for-profit organisation. Featuring overseas and local authors, the Festival offers a ten-day programme of literary events annually in October. The Festival has become an important and significant event on the international arts calendar, with programmes that include winners of the world's leading literary prizes: Man Booker, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Costa Whitbread Book Award, Carnegie Medal, Kiriyama Prize, Prix Goncourt and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. The Festival's international status is clearly confirmed by both the quality of authors and range of countries represented. Each year, the programme offered promises to be as vibrant as Hong Kong is exciting, as dynamic as Hong Kong is cosmopolitan and as diverse as Hong Kong is multicultural. The Hong Kong International Literary Festival celebrates creative writing in English and emphasises writing with an Asian connection. The Festival features both established and emerging authors and includes works in translation, literary fiction and non-fiction, poetry and scriptwriting. The Festival unites authors and readers and promotes the literary arts and a love of literature. The Schools Programme has been a popular component of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival from the very beginning. Every year we have invited students to experience a wonderful programme that allows them to interact with, learn from and be inspired by acclaimed, popular and beloved authors. The Festival commits to investing in the readers and writers of the future. By presenting a programme that allows readers and writers of all ages to interact, we wish to encourage an appreciation of the written word and to foster a love of literature. We hope that the Schools Programme will have a lasting impact on the students who attend. Please note that these events are for school groups only as they take place during school hours. The Hong Kong International Literary Festival is a not-for-profit organisation with a very small staff and limited financial resources. We rely on the generosity of individuals and corporations to keep the Festival going from year to year. Sponsorships also help us to provide a wide range of events, including university lectures and free events. They also help us to keep prices for our Schools Programme low so that as many students as possible can attend. Hong Kong International Literary Festival Address: 201 Kai Tak Commerical Building, 66-72 Stanley Street, Central, Hong Kong, SAR Telephone: (852) 2877 9797 Fax: (852) 21539260 Email: info@festival.org.hk web: http://www.festival.org.hk