Description
When Amang Bathala created the world and everything in it, he wanted the mountains to be triangular, the oceans oblong, and the rivers and streams rectangular. It was Diwata Nayades’, together with her helpers, Duwende Diling and Nuno Kagat, task to create the rectangular rivers and streams.
Will Duwende Diling and Nuno Kagat obey the rule of creating rivers and streams? Why do they have to obey this?
Praises for the Book
“The Legend of the Cagayan River is an additional material to Philippine literature. It creates a beautiful strand of the reader’s knowledge of geometry describing the shapes of mountains, oceans, streams and rivers. It is both an amusing and informational piece of literature.”– Dr. Felicidad N. Remo, multi-awarded educator, retired supervisor of the Early Childhood Education of the Division of City Schools in Manila
“‘The Legend of the Cagayan River’ is not an old legend by Cagayanons, it’s an imaginative creation and yet it gives a rather general description of the actual view of our austronesian ancestors that are prevalent in many of the indigenous groups: Bathala, diwata, paniniwala sa kaluluwa, nuno and many characters from folk mythology. What Gaspar did is to appropriate the art of folktale from the local to the national. Rather than this new alamat having saysay only for a certain group of people, it becomes, in many ways, a folktale for the Nation that weaves our identity in one story. The illustrations enhance the value of the book which gives it a modern and universal appeal.”– Prof. Michael Charleston “Xiao” Chua, public historian and De La Salle University faculty member
Author: Anna Liza M. Gaspar
Illustrator: Glendford Lumbao Language/s: Filipino and English
No. of Pages: 32
Target Readers: Ages 5-7
ISBN: 978-971-625-370-2
Type: Picture Book
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