Chilli Padi

by Adeline Foo, Lee Kowling (Illustrator)

Puteh has a new friend, Itam, a kitchen help adopted by her grandmother. The two children find themselves in trouble when they get into a fight in the kitchen. Itam is punished for Puteh’s misdeed. Read about how Puteh redeems herself with her new friend by using the magic of her beaded slippers.

A tale of friendship and loyalty, join Puteh and Itam on the first of their kitchen exploits and discover a unique side of the Peranakans through their food heritage.

36 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Adeline, a Singaporean, is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia. She is also a mother of three.

Adeline’s The Diary of Amos Lee, published in 2009, ranks as her best-selling series. All seven titles in the series have made the Straits Times’ National Best Sellers’ List for more than 84 weeks. The first book, I Sit, I Write, I Flush! has also won the inaugural Red Dot award given by the International Schools Libraries Network, a children’s choice award.

Adeline first ventured into writing in 2006 when she received the inaugural First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative Award given by the Media Development Authority of Singapore and the National Book Development Council of Singapore. Identified by the media authorities as one of Singapore’s forerunners in children’s book writing, she has received support to publish 13 picture books for early readers. Since then, Adeline has not stopped writing. Three of her books have been adapted into animation shorts, with a fourth new series turned into a TV show on the MediaCorp kids' channel, okto.