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Luis P. Gatmaitan

Luis P. Gatmaitan, MD is a medical doctor and an author of more than 40 children's books, some of which have been translated into Nihongo, Thai, and Bahasa Indonesia. He chaired the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) and now sits on the council of the National Council for Children's Television (NCCT) as a child development specialist. Known as Tito Dok to his readers and listeners, he hosts a weekly radio storytelling program, Wan Dey Isang Araw at 702 DZAS of the Far Eastern Broadcasting Company. In 2003, he was one of the recipients of The Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM). He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2005.

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Norma Olizon-Chikiamco

Norma Olizon-Chikiamco is an award-winning Filipino author, journalist, and food writer. She is known for her children's books, including the Palanca Award-winning Pan de Sal Saves the Day, as well as numerous cookbooks.

Chikiamco has written for various publications in the Philippines and received an Outstanding Journalism Award from the Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

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Virgilio S. Almario

Virgilio S. Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines.

Growing up in Bulacan among peasants, Almario sought his education in Manila and completed his degree in A.B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines. A prolific writer, he spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry together with Rogelio G. Mangahas and Lamberto E. Antonio. His earliest pieces of literary criticism were collected in Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972), now considered the first book of literary criticism in Filipino. Later, in the years of martial law, he set aside modernism and formalism an

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Melissa Salva

Melissa Salva writes contemporary fiction, children's books, and poetry. Her works have appeared in national publications as well as literary anthologies published in the Philippines and abroad.

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Mary Ann Ordinario-Floresta

Mary Ann Ordinario is the founder/Directress of ABC Educational Development Center in Kidapawan City. She graduated from Philippine Women's University with a degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Mass Communications. She furthered her studies by taking up her training on Early Childhood Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.
May Ann was also a former broadcaster, scriptwriter, and Research Head of DXND- Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation in Central Mindanao. She is the author of 25 children's books. Her book The Crying Trees swept the 2016 Grand Prize inhe Samsung KidsTime Award in Singapore, with four of her books winning the second prize.

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Bernard Evslin

Bernard Evslin was an author best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology. With over seventy titles, which include both novel-length retellings and short stories, Evslin is one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world. His best-known work is Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide and has been translated into ten different languages. An estimated 30 million students have come into contact with Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths due to its repeated use in high school and college classrooms over the years. This bestselling anthology includes such well-known stories as "Theseus and the Minotaur" and "Perseus and Medusa." He also published

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Crockett Johnson

Crockett Johnson was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby (1942–1952) and the Harold series of books beginning with Harold and the Purple Crayon. [From Wikipedia.]

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Dr. Seuss

Also wrote as Theodore Seuss Geisel, see https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads fo

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Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers' work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his award-winning picture books, now translated into over 30 languages.

In 2007, Jeffers was the official illustrator for World Book Day, and in 2008 Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London-based Studio AKA.

Jeffers won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with the artist and director Mac Premo, and in 2013 Jeffers co-directed the video for U2's Ordinary Love with Premo. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jeffers now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Norma Olizon-Chikiamco

Norma Olizon-Chikiamco is an award-winning Filipino author, journalist, and food writer. She is known for her children's books, including the Palanca Award-winning Pan de Sal Saves the Day, as well as numerous cookbooks.

Chikiamco has written for various publications in the Philippines and received an Outstanding Journalism Award from the Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

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Rene O. Villanueva

Rene O. Villanueva (September 1954–December 2007) was a Filipino Dramatist and Children's Story Writer who made his mark in Philippine Literature in the late 1970s and well into the first decade of the 21st century. He had a remarkable contribution to Filipino culture as shown in his prolific output which generates continuing interest in his plays and books for young people.

Villanueva was born in La Loma, Quezon City and studied in public schools, the Lyceum of the Philippines, and the University of the Philippines. As a young person, he already had the inclination to the arts, telling stories to playmates and winning in national school writing contests. In college, he was active in the theater as a writer and as a performer. Later when he

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Carla M. Pacis

Carla M. Pacis is a writer, a teacher and a former bookstore owner. She has written several books for children, a couple of novels for young adults and has won several local awards for her stories. She has also edited several books, not all for children, a print magazine and an on-line magazine, both for children.

She is a lecturer at the University of the Philippines and at the De La Salle University, teaching and conducting workshops on how to write for children and young adults, and is a Resident Fellow of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. During the summer break, she conducts writing workshops for adults, teenagers and children and sometimes will talk to parents and teachers on the power of reading. She will never say no to a scho

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Russell Molina

RUSSELL MOLINA is a Filipino children’s book author and graphic novelist.

Reflecting current Filipino realities and mirroring the local milieu and culture, his stories embrace a wide range of themes: From difficult issues like discrimination and apathy to real-life experiences like sibling rivalry and the reinvention of the family structure. With books like “Madyik Silya ni Titoy” (Titoy’s Magical Chair) and “Sampu Pataas, Sampu Pababa” (Ten Up, Ten Down), Molina has inspired children to conquer physical disabilities with a dose of creativity and imagination.

For his stories, he has won in numerous awards shows, including the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, The PBBY Salanga Writer’s Prize, The PBBY Alcala Illustrator’s Prize,

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Virgilio S. Almario

Virgilio S. Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines.

Growing up in Bulacan among peasants, Almario sought his education in Manila and completed his degree in A.B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines. A prolific writer, he spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry together with Rogelio G. Mangahas and Lamberto E. Antonio. His earliest pieces of literary criticism were collected in Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972), now considered the first book of literary criticism in Filipino. Later, in the years of martial law, he set aside modernism and formalism an

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Jeanette Patindol

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Melissa Salva

Melissa Salva writes contemporary fiction, children's books, and poetry. Her works have appeared in national publications as well as literary anthologies published in the Philippines and abroad.

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Yvette Fernandez

Yvette Fernandez is the editor-in-chief of Town & Country magazine. She lived for many years in New York but is happy to be home with her family and her Peter in Manila.

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Yvette Tan

YVETTE NATALIE U. TAN is a Manila-based horror writer. Her works have been published in The Philippine Free Press, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Times, Uno magazine, Rogue magazine, Story Philippines, and the Philippine Genre Stories, among others.

Her fiction has also appeared in anthologies such as Sleepless in Manila and Philippine Speculative Fiction II and III.

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Michael M. Coroza

Michael M. Coroza is a distinguished Filipino poet, essayist, translator, and academic known for his contributions to contemporary Philippine literature. He writes primarily in the Filipino language and has been a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the S.E.A. Write Award.

Coroza is a prolific poet, known for his command of traditional forms like the balagtasan, and has received multiple Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He is also a renowned literary translator, with his translation of Apolinario Mabini's La Revolucion Filipina receiving a National Book Award in 2016. As a literary scholar, his essays and critical works have been published nationally and internationally. He has also been a strong advocate f

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Augie Rivera

Augie has written more than 15 stories for children and has repeatedly won recognition from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He is one of the founding members of KUTING (Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting), a group of Filipino writers of children's stories.

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Jomike Tejido

JOMIKE TEJIDO is an architect, painter, author and illustrator based in Manila. He has illustrated over 100 children’s books, some of which he also wrote, including There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Book (Jimmy Patterson/ Little & Brown 2019), the award-winning Tagu-taguan (Ilaw ng Tahanan Publishing/Manila/Best Reads 2010), CLaysaurus books, Jepy the Jeepney books, and the Foldabots Toy Books, which is a series of cardboard robots kids can make. As a painter, Jomike has held 11 solo exhibitions. Visit his work at www.jomiketejido.com

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May Tobias-Papa

May Tobias-Papa is an award-winning Filipino writer and illustrator, known for her children's books and a background in fine arts and advertising.

Tobias-Papa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines. She later taught illustration and typography at the university. Before focusing on children's literature, she had a long career in advertising as both an art director and copywriter.

In a 2010 interview, she revealed that she decided to pivot to children's books after a period of soul-searching. She recalled being happiest as a child while writing and drawing her own picture books. This prompted her to enroll in writing workshops. In 2013, she published Doodles and Daydreams: From Doodler to Drawing

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Luis P. Gatmaitan

Luis P. Gatmaitan, MD is a medical doctor and an author of more than 40 children's books, some of which have been translated into Nihongo, Thai, and Bahasa Indonesia. He chaired the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) and now sits on the council of the National Council for Children's Television (NCCT) as a child development specialist. Known as Tito Dok to his readers and listeners, he hosts a weekly radio storytelling program, Wan Dey Isang Araw at 702 DZAS of the Far Eastern Broadcasting Company. In 2003, he was one of the recipients of The Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM). He was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2005.

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi (in Japanese: 川口俊和) was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

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Mary Ann Ordinario-Floresta

Mary Ann Ordinario is the founder/Directress of ABC Educational Development Center in Kidapawan City. She graduated from Philippine Women's University with a degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Mass Communications. She furthered her studies by taking up her training on Early Childhood Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.
May Ann was also a former broadcaster, scriptwriter, and Research Head of DXND- Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation in Central Mindanao. She is the author of 25 children's books. Her book The Crying Trees swept the 2016 Grand Prize inhe Samsung KidsTime Award in Singapore, with four of her books winning the second prize.

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Rene O. Villanueva

Rene O. Villanueva (September 1954–December 2007) was a Filipino Dramatist and Children's Story Writer who made his mark in Philippine Literature in the late 1970s and well into the first decade of the 21st century. He had a remarkable contribution to Filipino culture as shown in his prolific output which generates continuing interest in his plays and books for young people.

Villanueva was born in La Loma, Quezon City and studied in public schools, the Lyceum of the Philippines, and the University of the Philippines. As a young person, he already had the inclination to the arts, telling stories to playmates and winning in national school writing contests. In college, he was active in the theater as a writer and as a performer. Later when he

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Yvette Fernandez

Yvette Fernandez is the editor-in-chief of Town & Country magazine. She lived for many years in New York but is happy to be home with her family and her Peter in Manila.

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Michael M. Coroza

Michael M. Coroza is a distinguished Filipino poet, essayist, translator, and academic known for his contributions to contemporary Philippine literature. He writes primarily in the Filipino language and has been a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the S.E.A. Write Award.

Coroza is a prolific poet, known for his command of traditional forms like the balagtasan, and has received multiple Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He is also a renowned literary translator, with his translation of Apolinario Mabini's La Revolucion Filipina receiving a National Book Award in 2016. As a literary scholar, his essays and critical works have been published nationally and internationally. He has also been a strong advocate f

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Augie Rivera

Augie has written more than 15 stories for children and has repeatedly won recognition from the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He is one of the founding members of KUTING (Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting), a group of Filipino writers of children's stories.

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Jomike Tejido

JOMIKE TEJIDO is an architect, painter, author and illustrator based in Manila. He has illustrated over 100 children’s books, some of which he also wrote, including There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Book (Jimmy Patterson/ Little & Brown 2019), the award-winning Tagu-taguan (Ilaw ng Tahanan Publishing/Manila/Best Reads 2010), CLaysaurus books, Jepy the Jeepney books, and the Foldabots Toy Books, which is a series of cardboard robots kids can make. As a painter, Jomike has held 11 solo exhibitions. Visit his work at www.jomiketejido.com

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May Tobias-Papa

May Tobias-Papa is an award-winning Filipino writer and illustrator, known for her children's books and a background in fine arts and advertising.

Tobias-Papa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines. She later taught illustration and typography at the university. Before focusing on children's literature, she had a long career in advertising as both an art director and copywriter.

In a 2010 interview, she revealed that she decided to pivot to children's books after a period of soul-searching. She recalled being happiest as a child while writing and drawing her own picture books. This prompted her to enroll in writing workshops. In 2013, she published Doodles and Daydreams: From Doodler to Drawing

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Frank Lynch

Frank Lynch was born in the tiny hamlet of Quiogue, NY on the eastern end of Long Island. Growing up he always looked forward to trips to places like Freedomland, Palisades Amusement Park, Chicos Monkey Farm and the circuses that visited the area including Ringling Brothers, the Royal Wild West and the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers shows. In later years, the author became involved in concert operations, exotic animal training, age and weight guessing, flea circuses and tourist attraction management. He also married his now long suffering but understanding wife Barbara and helped raise his two talented and beautiful daughters Shannon and Diana. "

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Jeanette Patindol

Grace With Fire

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Rhandee Garlitos

Raymund “Rhandee” Magno Garlitos's first children’s book was called Ang Paglalakbay ni Pepito Piso, which was illustrated by an art staffer colleague in Malate Literary Folio. He wrote this to join a children’s book making contest by a publishing company. He won the contest and they published his book.

He received numerous awards including four Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.

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Eugene Y. Evasco

Eugene Y. Evasco is a writer, editor, translator, and collector of children’s books. He is currently a Full Professor at the UP College of Arts and Letters. Some of his new books at Lampara are Ang Nag-iisa at Natatanging si Onyok, Ang Singsing-Pari sa Pisara, Ang Beybi naming Mamaw, and the Filipino translation of Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. In 2014, he won the UP Gawad sa Natatanging Publikasyon sa Filipino (Malikhaing Pagsulat category). He became a part of the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2009 and is currently a Fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. He was accepted as a Research Fellow to the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.

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Christine S. Bellen-Ang

Christine S. Bellen graduated from UP Diliman in 1995 with a BA in Philippine Studies, majors in Creative Writing and Art Studies. In 2003, she received an MA in Philippine Studies with majors in Philippine Literature and Art Studies.

She is a Writing Fellow of Pambansang Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (PANULAT) and the Barlaya Writers for Children of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and Adarna House. She is also a Literary Criticism Fellow of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing and Research Center at the De La Salle University. A former vice president of Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting (KUTING) and a current member of Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND), she has held several lectures regarding

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