The Historical Asian Children’s Collection (1890 – 1990) within the Asian Children’s Literature (ACL) Collection was developed in the 1960s at the National Library Singapore to raise the awareness and understanding of Asian-centric children’s literature. From an initial collection comprising mainly children’s literature of British or American origin written by Western authors, the collection was later developed by local children’s librarians to reflect Asian children, backgrounds, and communities in the four official languages of Singapore – English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.