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Arleen Amidjaja: Writing with children in mind

What Media Says




In this article: Arleen Amidjaja

Written by A. Kurniawan Ulung, and was originally published in Jakarta Post

Mar 06, 2017

Arleen Amidjaja has published more than 250 bilingual children’s books at home and abroad since she started writing in 2004. “After publishing five books, I thought I would stop, but I couldn’t, because I am addicted to writing,” the 42-year-old laughed. Back in 2006, her publishing company printed a book of hers, Kodi Si Kodok Bernyanyi (Kodi the Singing Frog), in an oversized format of 3 by 3 meters in Surakarta, Central Java, making it the country’s largest book according to the Indonesian Museum of Records.

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