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Language
  
English

Pages
  
160 pp

LC Class
  
PZ7.H633 Si

Author
  
Minfong Ho

Country
  
Thailand

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Publication date
  
1975

ISBN
  
0-688-41690-X

Originally published
  
1975

Genre
  
Short story

OCLC
  
1103075

Sing to the Dawn httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen336Sin

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Publisher
  
William Morrow and Company

Similar
  
Minfong Ho books, Other books

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Sing to the Dawn is a story by the American author Minfong Ho, which was originally published as a short story and was awarded first prize by the Council of Interracial Books for Children in New York City in 1975. It was later extended to a full-length novel.

Contents

Sing to the dawn meraih mimpi part 1 8


Plot summary

Dawan, a young village girl who lives in Thailand, wins a scholarship to study in a city school. Her brother, Kwai, places second and is initially jealous, causing a rift between the two previously-close siblings. This hostility is further exacerbated by Dawan's father, who feels that the city is no place for a female. Dawan faces obstacles at every turn, and eventually overcomes these obstacles and proves to herself and to others that she is fully capable of handling the scholarship and the responsibility it entails.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

  • Sing to the Dawn was adapted into a critically acclaimed musical by Singaporean composer Dick Lee in 1996 and was directed by Steven Dexter. The musical has proved extremely popular after its initial run, and has been restaged several times, including a restaging by the Singapore Management University's production house in 2003 and a joint production between Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls' School in 2004.
  • A full-length feature animation based on the book was produced in collaboration by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, the Media Development Authority of Singapore and Infinite Frameworks,[1] and was released on 30 October 2008, with the Chinese title of 曦望. The movie was localised into an Indonesian version with the title "Meraih Mimpi" and released on Indonesian cinemas on 16 September 2009.
  • References

    Sing to the Dawn Wikipedia