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

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).”