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Book Review of Seven Stories from Seven Sisters, Children’s Filipino Folklore

March 26, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Thanks to Dr. Her­minia Menez Coben Her­minia Coben who gave me a copy of this review of the chil­dren’s book, Sev­en Sto­ries from Sis­ters, a project of PAWWA (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists), a group I cofound­ed. The book was pub­lished a while back. PALH may have a few copies left, so email palhbooks@gmail.com if interested.
From Wikipedia: “Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists also known as PAWWA was found­ed in 1991 by a group of sev­en Fil­ip­ina writ­ers in South­ern California.[1] It was the first such sup­port group for Fil­ip­ina women writ­ers. Aside from sup­port­ing one anoth­er, the group want­ed to help oth­er Fil­ip­ina writ­ers and artists, as well as to pro­vide com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. PAWWA encour­aged the cre­ation of PAWWA-North, head­ed by Ceres Alaba­do in the Bay Area, California.
PAWWA’s found­ing mem­bers are: Val­o­rie Slaugh­ter Bejara­no, Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, Mariq­ui­ta Athena Davi­son, Fe Panalin­gan Koons, Susan N. Mon­tepio, Cecile Caguin­gin Ochoa, and Nen­tuz­ka C. Villamar.
For six years, PAWWA received the high­ly com­pet­i­tive Mul­ti­cul­tur­al Entry Grant from the Cal­i­for­nia Arts Coun­cil (CAC). PAWWA used that fund­ing to help pub­lish a newslet­ter and books: Sev­en Sto­ries from Sev­en Sis­ters: A Col­lec­tion of Philip­pine Folk­tales (1992); The Begin­ning and Oth­er Asian Folk­tales (1995);A Direc­to­ry of Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists; and Jour­ney of 100 Years: Reflec­tions on the Cen­ten­ni­al of Philip­pine Inde­pen­dence (1999).”
Tags: Fil­ipino chil­dren’s book, Fil­ipino folk­tales, Fil­ipino folk­lore, chil­dren’s book

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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