A game that was mentioned in one of the books has also been turned into a game application for iPhone and iPad. The book has also been adapted into a television show in 2012 for which there have been spin-offs of characters in the series.
Foo's The Diary of Amos Lee series, published by Epigram Books has been sold to India, China, Indonesia, Slovakia and Czech Republic. The Diary of Amos Lee: I'm Twelve, I'm Tough, I Tweet! won second runner-up at the Popular Readers’ Choice Award in 2011.
She is married and a mother of three children.įoo's The Diary of Amos Lee: I Sit, I Write, I Flush! won the inaugural Red Dot award for “Best Junior Fiction” presented by the International School Libraries Network (Singapore) in 2009. 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.įoo spent half of her 15-year career in corporate public relations, and the other half in advertising agency work. She has received support to publish 13 picture books for early readers. 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. Her bestselling work is The Diary of Amos Lee which was published on 2009, it is written in simple and lucid language. To date, she has written 16 books, 12 picture books. She started writing picture books in 2006. Career įoo is a graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia.
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