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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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Lamberto R. Ocampo better known as Ambeth R. Ocampo (b. 1961) is Filipino historian, academic, journalist, cultural administrator and author best known for his writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal, and for his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Looking Back." He became the Chairman of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2002 until 2010, and was appointed as Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2005 until 2007.

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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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Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature. This includes The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.
Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. In 1968, she signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In the latter part of the 1970s, after two decades of writing for children and

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Eric Carle

Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
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Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.

Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.

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Sam McBratney

The 1943 born Northern Ireland native started writing children's books when he was a teacher in his thirties, with the aim of helping out students who had trouble reading. But he continued writing for a more-personal reason: "the act of imagining simply makes me feel good," he says. The fifty-seventh book of Sam McBratney's career, and his first book with Candlewick Press, was the much-loved GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, which has sold an astonishing 15 million copies worldwide, and is available in 37 languages. "This is not the sort of thing you expect when most of your books have been remaindered," the author admits. "But, as the frog trapped in the milk discovered, if you keep going, sometimes you find yourself walking on cream cheese."

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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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José Rizal

Spanish exiled Philippine reformer and writer José Rizal from 1892 to 1896 for his political novels, later arrested him, and executed him for sedition; his death helped to fuel an insurrection against rule from 1896 to 1898.

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, a polymath nationalist, most prominently advocated during the colonial era. Poeple consider him the national hero and commemorate the anniversary of his death as a holiday, called Rizal day. His military trial made him a martyr of the revolution.

The seventh of eleven children to a wealthy family in the town, Rizal attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts. He enrolled in medicine and philosophy and letters at the University of Santo Tomas and then

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Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein was the author-artist of many beloved books of prose and poetry. He was a cartoonist, playwright, poet, performer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated songwriter.

Shel Silverstein will perhaps always be best loved for his extraordinary books. Shel’s books are now published in more than 47 different languages. The last book that was published before his death in 1999 was Falling Up

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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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Francisco Balagtas

Francisco Baltazar, known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, "Florante at Laura", is regarded as his defining work.

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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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Edgar Calabia Samar

Edgar Calabia Samar is a multi-awarded poet and novelist from the Philippines. His first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, received the NCCA Writer’s Prize in 2005, and its English translation as Eight Muses of the Fall was longlisted in the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. In 2013, he received two Philippine National Book Awards––one for his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909 (Best Novel), and another for his book on the creative process, Halos Isang Buhay: Ang Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela (Best Book of Criticism). Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, the first book in his YA series Janus Silang, also received the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in 2015 and the Philippine National Children’s Book Award for Best 201

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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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Becky Bravo

Becky Bravo’s first foray into the children’s fiction genre began in 1996 during a short-lived attempt at a Masteral degree in Creative Writing. One of the first classes she took was an undergraduate course in children’s fiction, and it was for this class that she wrote her first actual children’s story entitled “Fetch”. On her first crack at joining the Palanca Memorial Awards in 1997, “Fetch” came away with the 2nd Prize for Children’s Fiction in English. She has participated in the contest every year since then, winning 1st Prize in 2000 for “Fish for Two”, and another in 2004 for The Cat Painter, both of which were later published as picture books. She became a member of KUTING in 2004

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Mervin Malonzo

Mervin Malonzo wrote and drew the National Book Award-winning comic TABI PO. He also worked with writer Adam David on another title called ANG SUBERSIBO, a comic adaptation of Rizal’s NOLI and FILI. He graduated magna cum laude in UP Fine Arts. When he is not creating comics, he is creating websites, animations, and illustrations for other people and entities.

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Bill Martin Jr.

Bill Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an elementary-school principal, teacher, writer, and poet. His more than 300 books, among them the bestselling classics Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See ; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear ; Panda Bear Panda Bear What Do You See ; and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom , are a testament to his ability to speak directly to children. Martin held a doctoral degree in early childhood education. Born in Kansas, he worked as an elementary-school principal in Chicago before moving to New York City, where he worked in publishing, developing innovative reading programs for schools. After several years, he devoted himself full-time to writing his children's books. He lived in New York until 1993, when he mo

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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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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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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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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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Cyan Abad-Jugo

Cyan Abad-Jugo took her master’s in Children’s Literature at Simmons College, Boston, and is currently pursuing a PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines. Her first book, Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech, was a joint project with father Gémino H. Abad (Anvil 1996). This was followed by a collection of short fiction called Sweet Summer and Other Stories (UP Press 2004). Her most recent book, Leaf and Shadow: Stories About Some Friendly Creatures (Anvil 2008), includes her children’s story “Behind The Old Aparador” which won second place at the Carlos Memorial Palanca Awards in 2003.

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Becky Bravo

Becky Bravo’s first foray into the children’s fiction genre began in 1996 during a short-lived attempt at a Masteral degree in Creative Writing. One of the first classes she took was an undergraduate course in children’s fiction, and it was for this class that she wrote her first actual children’s story entitled “Fetch”. On her first crack at joining the Palanca Memorial Awards in 1997, “Fetch” came away with the 2nd Prize for Children’s Fiction in English. She has participated in the contest every year since then, winning 1st Prize in 2000 for “Fish for Two”, and another in 2004 for The Cat Painter, both of which were later published as picture books. She became a member of KUTING in 2004

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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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Mervin Malonzo

Mervin Malonzo wrote and drew the National Book Award-winning comic TABI PO. He also worked with writer Adam David on another title called ANG SUBERSIBO, a comic adaptation of Rizal’s NOLI and FILI. He graduated magna cum laude in UP Fine Arts. When he is not creating comics, he is creating websites, animations, and illustrations for other people and entities.

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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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Francisco Balagtas

Francisco Baltazar, known much more widely through his nom-de-plume Francisco Balagtas, was a prominent Filipino poet, and is widely considered as the Tagalog equivalent of William Shakespeare for his impact on Filipino literature. The famous epic, "Florante at Laura", is regarded as his defining work.

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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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Annie Pacaña-Lumbao

Annie is an illustrator, an author of children’s stories and a graphic designer. Her first storybook But That Won’t Wake Me Up!, which she co-authored with her daughter, received the Filipino Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 for children’s book category.

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León María Guerrero

León María Ignacio Agapito Guerrero y Francisco better known simply as Leon Ma. Guerrero III, was a Filipino diplomat and novelist, and was one of the foremost Filipino nationalists of his era. A partner in the law practice of senator Claro M. Recto, he became Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs during the Magsaysay administration. His then controversial advocacy of 'Asia for the Asians' and espousal of a realistic re-examination of relations with the United States are now commonly accepted as being ahead of their time.

"Leoni," as his family called him, was born on March 24, 1915 in Ermita, Manila to one of the nation's most prominent families. His father was the famed Dr. Alfredo Leon Maria Guerrero, and his mother was Filomena Francisco, t

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