Tag: children's lit
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Storiesnap Time: ‘Toasty’
Welcome back to Storiesnap Time, in which we feature books with illustrations in snaps and clips. This time, we’re featuring Toasty by Sarah Hwang, a story about “a deliciously funny tale of a piece of bread who wants to be a dog.” If you liked this, let us know in the comments below. We also welcome…
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Storiesnap Time: ‘The Little Prince’
Welcome back to Storiesnap Time, in which we feature books with illustrations in snaps and clips. This time, it’s The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery—a mainstay in readers’ favorites list, including ours! This particular copy has the French text on top of the Korean and English translations. Here’s one of the most highlighted lines from…
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Storiesnap Time: ‘A Treasury of Fairy Tales’
Welcome back to Storiesnap Time, in which we feature books with illustrations in snaps and clips. It’s been a while, we know, but now that we’ve been in quarantine long enough (or too long??), some of us might have made quite several trips down memory lane. And this time, we found a classic: A Treasury of…
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Storiesnap Time: ‘I Don’t Like to Eat’ by Excel Dyquiangco and Marcus Nada
Welcome to Storiesnap Time, in which we feature books with illustrations in snaps and clips. For our first book, we chose I Don’t Like To Eat by Excel Dyquiangco and Marcus Nada. It is a wordless story about a little boy who eats only junk food, a recommended read for ages six and above. Watch the video below…
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#BumasaAtLumaya: Attending Children’s Book Fair and Literature Talks
by Julan Donio-Castro I’ve loved children’s books ever since I was a little kid. During my elementary school years, my friends and I used to stay in the library to read story books with wonderful illustrations. I remember that feeling when we would all say “Wow!” in amazement for reading and looking at picture books,…
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Bookbed reviews: ‘Sula’s Voyage’ by Catherine Torres (plus a giveaway!)
by Allana Luta The book I finished before Sula’s Voyage was Eugene Y. Evasco’s Anina ng mga Alon, which I had bought at the 2015 Manila International Book Fair but decided to read only now. It was about Anina, a young Badjao, growing up in a society that does not completely understand or accept her people’s…
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Bookbed reviews: ‘What Kids Should Know About Andres and the Katipunan’ (plus a giveaway!)
by KB Meniado Andres Bonifacio has never been my top answer for whenever somebody asks me who my favorite Filipino hero is. (Don’t worry; it’s not Manny Pacquiao either.) Frankly, there was just too much Jose Rizal in the environment I grew up in, ending up with me having only a shallow grasp of what Bonifacio’s…
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