Indio Bravo: The Story of Jose Rizal *OLD STOCK*

Description

English • Ages 12 and up • 2017 • 7.5″ x 10.25″ • 176 pages • with two color illustrations • ISBN: 978-621-422-005-2

Written by Asuncion Lopez-Rizal Bantug with Sylvia Mendez Ventura

Illustrated by BenCab

As a young girl, Asuncion Lopez-Bantug Rizal sat on her uncle Paciano’s lap and asked him to tell her stories abut his brother, Jose.

Ms. Bantug, the granddaughter of Rizal’s elder sister Narcisa, was her family’s journalist and chronicler. Fondly nicknamed “the little question box,” she plied her relatives for their recollections about Lolo Jose. Over the years, she copiously filled notebooks with details about the life of our national hero. For over seventy-five years, Ms. Bantug’s memoirs have served as the basis for many of the stories historians have told about Rizal.