Illustrated by Adrian Panadero

The riveting life stories of our Philippine heroes can inspire children, students, and the next generation of community leaders. Share your love of history by bringing home Tahanan’s award-winning Great Lives Library.

Ages 8 and up • 7 x 10 • 32 pages • Paperback

*For LLH Years 7-10 and new with CM Methods/Living Books, read through the Great Lives Series starting with Mother Ignacia*

A handy reference book for children about architecture by Filipinos for Filipinos. This second edition of What Kids Should Know about Filipino Architecture has been updated and expanded with even more fascinating facts, including Filipino architecture during the pandemic.

Isang sangguniang pambata tungkol sa arkitekturang likha ng mga Filipino para sa mga Filipino. Ang ikalawang edisyong ito ay puno ng bagong kawili-wiling impormasyon, kabilang na ang arkitekturang Filipino sa panahon ng pandemya.

ISBN: 978-971-508-911-1
Published: 2022
Language: English
Age Recommendation: 10+
52 pages | 200 grams | 7.25 x 10.25 inches

A reference book for children about the different musical instruments of the Philippines.

Isang sangguniang pambata tungkol sa iba’t ibang instrumentong pangmusika ng Filipinas.

ISBN: 978-971-508-908-1
Published: 2022
Language: English
Age Recommendation: 10+
56 pages | 200 grams | 7.25 x 10.25 inches

“Pok Pok Alimpako” is a game song in which children stack their fists, building an imaginary staircase to the moon and stars. Taking inspiration from the delicately intricate okir motifs in Maranao traditional art, Liza Flores used paper cutouts to weave a whimsical journey.

Give the Gift of Song!

At the hour of bedtime, nothing enchants a child like the joy of a well-loved folk song. Now, parents can collect all six folk songs sure to enthrall new generations of music lovers. Carefully curated by musicology expert Dr. Felicidad A. Prudente, each book features regional customs and traditions that showcase the diversity of our Philippine islands. Playful, humorous, at times wistful, these evocatively rendered musical landscapes offer young and old a fresh portal into the ear and soul of Filipino life.

Size: 8 x 10 in
ISBN: 978-621-422-037-3
Year Published: 2022

“Lubi-Lubi” is a song also called “An Mga Bulan” (The Months). For a song that celebrates the pleasures of eating native food year round, Mark & Jo of Happy Garaje depicts the various ways we enjoy coconuts through the changing seasons in the island of Leyte.

Give the Gift of Song!

At the hour of bedtime, nothing enchants a child like the joy of a well-loved folk song. Now, parents can collect all six folk songs sure to enthrall new generations of music lovers. Carefully curated by musicology expert Dr. Felicidad A. Prudente, each book features regional customs and traditions that showcase the diversity of our Philippine islands. Playful, humorous, at times wistful, these evocatively rendered musical landscapes offer young and old a fresh portal into the ear and soul of Filipino life.

Size: 8 x 10 in
ISBN: 978-621-422-039-7
Year Published: 2022

“Pong Pong Guinatbong” is a game song created for the amusement of babies. With lyrics that speak of the joy in cooking and eating the Ilokano pinakbet, Danielle illustrates the scrumptious flavors one can savor from the traditional earthen kitchen.

Give the Gift of Song!

At the hour of bedtime, nothing enchants a child like the joy of a well-loved folk song. Now, parents can collect all six folk songs sure to enthrall new generations of music lovers. Carefully curated by musicology expert Dr. Felicidad A. Prudente, each book features regional customs and traditions that showcase the diversity of our Philippine islands. Playful, humorous, at times wistful, these evocatively rendered musical landscapes offer young and old a fresh portal into the ear and soul of Filipino life.

Size: 8 x 10 in
ISBN: 978-621-422-026-7
Year Published: 2022

     The book is a historical fiction.

It is historical in part because the structure of the narration starting with the arrival of Magellan’s expedition to the Philippines in 1521 until the departure of the survivors, is largely based on historical facts, using as primary source Antonio Pigafetta’s travel journal, and Maximilianus Transylvanus accounts as secondary source.

The book is also partly fiction, because there is no reliable and authentic historical evidence about the life of Lapu-lapu, aside from Pigafetta’s account of the Battle of Maktan. To fill the gap, the author turned to folklores in the writings of Heide Gloria, Gerry Desabelle, and Romola Savellon.

With the use of artistic license, the author wove a storyline about the  early life of the Bisayan hero, interlaced with the 15th Century Bisayan culture and tradition culled from the scholarly writings of modern historians, notably Ignacio Alcina, William Scott, and Landa Jocano.

SYNOPSIS

      In the story Lapu-lapu is the son of the second wife of then ruling Rajah of Sugbo, who also sired Humabon with a first wife. Upon the violent death of the Rajah, the newly born Lapu-lapu was banished to Maktan, and there raised as the son of the local Datu.

The story narrates of Lapu-lapu’s childhood training in the early Cebuano writing system, the Baybayin, and in the martial art of Arnis. A picturesque description followed of Lapu-lapu’s courtship and marriage, and his adventures as mercenary in the Sultan of Malacca’s army that fought the Portuguese invasion in 1511.

Upon the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521 until their departure, the story portrays amusing incidents about the reaction of the animist Bisayans to the First Mass, their Envangelization and eventual Christian Baptism.

The Battle of Maktan is also described in its bloody historical details, capped with a story of Magellan’s burial in Maktan’s Marigondon underwater cave.

In a controversial side story, Enrique de Malacca, Magellan’s slave who spoke Bisayan, is portrayed as the Maktan boy captured years earlier by pirates, then sold at the Malaccan slave market, and eventually captured by Magellan.

The story ends with a happy reconciliation between the half-brothers Lapu-lapu and Humabon in a sandugo ritual.

THESIS

     The author believes that there is need to preserve the pre-colonial customs and traditions of the Bisayan people, and to bring to the consciousness of the present generation the glorious past of the peoples of Cebu and Mactan, and how their valiant heroes repulsed the first incursion of a European superpower of the time.

Size: 6” x 9”

No. of pages: 250

Paper: Hibrite Newsprint

Binding: Perfect Binding

Cover: Foldcote calliper 15, plastic laminated, Softbound

Translated by Nanoy Rafael

Love has blossomed between a princess and a fisherman. A boy has to sacrifice his playtime and schooling, to become the best fisherman in town. All of this is bound by a promise, a promise about a giant sea, baring stories and stars.

This is the story of a fishing family and their fate, each tied to the sea.

Isang pag-iibigan ang nabuo sa pagitan ng prinsesa at isang mangingisda. Isang bata ang kailangang isuko ang paglalaro at pag-aaral, alang-alang sa pagiging pinakamahusay na mangingisda ng bayan. Nauugnay ang lahat ng ito ng isang pangako, isang pangako tungkol sa higanteng dagat na mga dala-dalang mga tala.

 Ito ang kuwento ng isang pamilya ng mga mangingisda at ng kanilang tadhanang nakatali sa dagat.

ISBN: 978-971-508-475-8

Published: 2014

Language: Filipino (Tagalog)

Age Recommendation: 10+

100 pages | 140 grams | 5.5 by 7.75 inches

When the Americans declared war against the Japanese on December 9, 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the author, Pacita P. Jacinto, was newly-married to a doctor whose child she carried and she relished their independence in a perfect house with air plants in Otis Street in Pandacan, Manila.

The war, like all evil things, was unhoped for. Within three years, Pacita and her husband would be moving in and out of places in Manila to survive the occupation of the Japanese. She detailed the events as they unfold from that fateful night in December. In her diary, she also narrated how they tried to live normal lives, while interpreting other public matters critically. The result is a rich and intimate history of the Japanese Occupation of Manila from the point of view of a young, middle-class Filipina wife and mother.

ISBN: 9789712712168

Imprint/Category: Anvil Fiction and Literature • 0.190 kg • 7.9 × 4.8 in

Translated by Soledad S. Reyes

Canal de la Reina was Liwayway Arceo’s response to the call for committed writing as an aftermath of the violent head-on collisions of diverse forces in the 1970s. Arceo had not been known for engaged or “political” writing, where the writer deployed their craft to project a vision of a world in turmoil, where characters were fully engaged in the bloody struggle to effect radical change in society. This willful commitment to use literature to paint a canvas of a world in turmoil had been demonstrated by a long line of Filipino writers, from Jose Rizal to the generation of Lope K. Santos and Servando de los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century, to the generation of Rogelio Sicat and Ricky Lee in the post-war decades. This is a legacy which has pushed various writers to confront the burning issues of the day.

Published in 2019.

ISBN: 9789715509022

Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press

Language: English