The must have reward for our author

Lat has been nominated for 2009 "Garden State Teen Book Awards" in the non-fiction Grade 5+ category organised annually by the New Jersey Library Association in the United States of America.

This really mean something for me as the first Malaysian cartoonist been award in US soil or as the first Malaysian biographer alias author of Malaysian ethnic scene getting this award is never been realise by anyone else except by the hand of Lat our ticklish director of Malaysian culture.(a proud moment for me to sing Negaraku right now)

The New Jersey Library Association describe Lat comic as "a memoir of a growing-up Muslim in a Malaysian kampung (village) in the 1950s. Told in a graphic novel format, this story is at times touching, at times humourous and always entertaining."

Truly right indeed can't say anything but crying right now.