Kahel Press The Legend of the Cagayan River

The Legend of the Cagayan River (Ang Alamat ng Ilog ng Cagayan)

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?

Author: Anna Liza M. Gaspar

Illustrator: Glendford Lumbao

ISBN: 978-971-625-370-2

Genre: Children’s Book (Picture Book)

Published: 2017

Language: English and Filipino

Age Recommendation: Ages 5-7

Pages: 32 pages

Dimensions: 8 x 8 in.

Author's Bio:

Liza grew up at the foot of a mountain and in the middle of rice fields, but until now she’s still afraid of caterpillars.  She earned her BS Business Administration and Accountancy at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She is a CPA, but she prefers writing stories and poems for children than numbers. She was a fellow for Pasnaan, LIRA,  and Cordillera Creative Writers’ Workshop. She was LIRA’s treasurer and she’s the current treasurer of GUMIL  Filipinas. Her stories and poems for children have been published in Liwayway and Bannawag. “The Legend of the Cagayan River” is her second children’s book.  

Illustrator Bio:

Glendford Lumbao is a Philippine-based freelance illustrator, designer, and photographer who graduated from the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines - Diliman. His art subjects—both in illustration and in photography—are usually nature, indigenous people, and candid moments. He also loves to do volunteer work during his free time such as mural painting or teaching in art workshops for kids in rural areas.

Praises for the Book:

“'The Legend of the Cagayan River' is an additional material to Philippine literature. IIt creates a beautiful strand of the reader's knowledge of geometry describing the shapes of mountains, oceans, streams, rivers. It is both 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 Cagayanonans, it's an imaginative creation and yet it gives a rather general description of the actual world view of our austronesian ancestors that are prevalent in many of the indegenous 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""