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New Children’s Book: Asian and Philippine Folktales

October 21, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

I edit­ed this chil­dren’s book of folk­lore. It’s a per­fect gift, so keep this in mind for Christmas!

ASIAN AND PHILIPPINE FOLKTALES: RETELLINGS BY PAWWA  con­tains retellings of beloved Asian and Philip­pine folk­tales as retold by mem­bers of  Philip­pine Amer­i­can Women Writ­ers and Artists.. This col­lec­tion includes 25 sto­ries from places such as Laos, Japan, Korea, Suma­tra, Viet­nam, Chi­na, Bali, Indone­sia, India, and the Philip­pines. The book’s tar­get audi­ence is 8 and older.

PAWWA was found­ed in 1991 by a group of sev­en Fil­ip­ina writ­ers in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. It was the first such sup­port group for Fil­ip­ina women writ­ers. 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), which PAWWA used to pub­lish newslet­ters and books. When PAWWA’s CAC fund­ing ran out in June 1998, the remain­ing mem­bers of PAWWA decid­ed to move on, and PAWWA was dissolved.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

These sto­ries unlock a store­house of cul­tur­al knowl­edge – of lessons learned from tapes­tries of words. Par­ents, chil­dren, and edu­ca­tors and all oth­ers who love “old-time sto­ries” will enjoy this col­lec­tion.” Her­minia Meñez Coben, Folk­lorist, Author of Explo­rations in Philip­pine Folk­lore and Ver­bal Arts in Philip­pine Indige­nous Com­mu­ni­ties: Poet­ics, Soci­ety, and History.

What a won­der­ful book! I know that when I read them to my grand­chil­dren, I will also be that lit­tle girl again, enrap­tured by my nan­ny’s tales of the char­ac­ters in these sto­ries. ~ Jose­lyn Gea­ga-Rosen­thal, LCSW, Licensed Psychotherapist.

 

BOOK TRAILER:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpY4bWoM61w

Avail­able from Ama­zon, Barnes and Noble, and palhbooks.com
 
Tags: #Folk­tales #Folk­tale­san­dle­gends #chil­drens­book #Asian­folk­tales #Fil­ipino­folk­tales #folk­lore

 

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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.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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