More importantly, Lampara Books hopes that the lessons and values learned in these stories will serve as light that will guide young readers to grow up with a profound love for books and reading, a deep respect for themselves, for others, and for the environment, and a keen awareness of their roles as good and responsible members of society.
THE 2012 LAMPARA BOOKS ILLUSTRATOR’S PRIZE
(Sponsored by Lampara Publishing House, Incorporated)
Illustrations by Ibarra Crisostomo
These contemporary legends tackle the origins of the Dugong, Apple, Snake and Spider, and give an explanation to the nature of each. In telling the stories, the author focuses on the proper attitude towards the lessons, values, insights, and wisdom each is trying to impact.
Reading the stories together with the child is suggested to help the child fully comprehend eact story and what it means, and the same time to instill in his/her mind the moral lesson and values it is trying to impact.
TABLE ON CONTENTS
The Legend of the Dugong
The Legend of the Apple
The Legend of the Spider
The Legend of the Snake
In English with Tagalog Translation
70 PAGES
Book size: 8 inches x 10.5 inches
Illustrations by Jomike Tejido
Legends are a part of Filipino life and culture. Legends, like myths, are stories that explain the origins of things and occurrences. Early Filipinos used legends and myths as means of understanding their environment.
These contemporary legends tackle the origins of the Mosquito, Butterfly, Sampaguita and Crab, and give an explanation to the nature of each. In telling the stories, the author focuses on the proper attitude towards the lessons, values, insights, and wisdom each is trying to impact.
Reading the stories together with the child is suggested to help the child fully comprehend eact story and what it means, and the same time to instill in his/her mind the moral lesson and values it is trying to impact.
TABLE ON CONTENTS
The Legend of the Mosquito
The Legend of the Butterfly
The Legend of the Sampaguita
The Legend of the Crab
In English with Tagalog Translation
70 PAGES
Book size: 8 inches x 10.5 inches
Illustrations by Ibarra Crisostomo
These contemporary legends tackle the origins of the Pasig River, Turtle, Crocodile and Lanzones, and give an explanation to the nature of each. In telling the stories, the author focuses on the proper attitude towards the lessons, values, insights, and wisdom each is trying to impact.
Reading the stories together with the child is suggested to help the child fully comprehend eact story and what it means, and the same time to instill in his/her mind the moral lesson and values it is trying to impact.
TABLE ON CONTENTS
The Legend of the Pasig River
The Legend of the Turtle
The Legend of the Crocodile
The Legend of the Lanzones
In English with Tagalog Translation
70 PAGES
Book size: 8 inches x 10.5 inches
The year 1775 is an age of many contradictions, an extraordinary period. France is prosperous, unlike England where chaos rules. Cruel acts are performed in the name of Christianity.
Armed men perform burglaries day and night. Families hide their furniture in warehouses if they are going out of town. Traders turn out to be criminals, who attack their fellow traders. Robbers intercept and steal the mail. Prisoners riot against their guards. Thieves steal from nobleman in daylight. Gunmen and ordinary people fight each other for stolen goods. These acts are so common that executions are never ending.
After making himself invisible with an experiment, Griffin attempts to keep it a secrets. He wraps himself with bandages from head to foot, wears a large hat, gloves, and a blue eyeglasses to hide every inch of his face, and goes to a town to stay in an inn. He demands to be left alone.
But one morning, when the innkeepers pass by his room and out of curiosity enter it, they notice this clothes scattered all over the floor. He is nowhere to be seen. The bedclothes and a chair leap into mid-air and push them out of the room. When confronted by the inn's owner, Griffin removes his bandages and eyeglasses to reveal nothing beneath. When the police try to catch him, he throws off all his clothes and escapes.
In the last years of the nineteenth century, men do not consider a terrible danger might come from outer space. As they busy themselves with lives and little affairs, across the gulf of space, intelligent, unsympathetic creatures regard the earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely draw their plans against men. The planet Mars must be older than our world and has lives in it before any living things roamed the earth. If has air and water and all necessary for the support of animated existence. With their temperature getting colder and the planet itself nearing its end, the Martians are forced to find ways to survive. It is 1894, a great light is seen coming from the planet Mars. Authorities surmise that meteorites might just be falling in a heavy shower upon Mars or that a huge volcanic explosion is in progress. "It's impossible that there's life on Mars'" one of them declares.
Illustration by Pergylene Acuña
Kiko is only six yeard old and could yet only count from one to twenty, but he has many more toys than that. His mother tells him to sort out his toys and choose which of those he wants to give away.
But Kiko has a hard time deciding which toys he is ready to part with, so he ends up keeping them all to himself despite his mother’s request.
That night, Kiko has a dream. The next morning, he wakes up to a big toy galoot beside his bed and which is made of all the toys he has loved. What could the big toy galoot want to tell Kiko?
One fine morning in the town of Matubig, the people wake up to find their water gone . They have no water to cook their food, no water for their baths, no water to tend to their animals and plants. All of them to smell.
They are thirsty, so very thirsty and that is the worst thing of all. Where has the water gone? One small had seen it leave: Lilay.
Find out in this story how Lilay becomes an important part in the return of the water to Matubig – and how important water is to people.
An evil queen hates living with the beautiful Snow White. The queen thinks she would be the most beautiful in the world is Snow White is gone. So the queen tries to kill Snow White many times. But every time, the seven dwarfs in the woods save the princess. At last the queen gives Snow White a poisoned apple and Snow White dies. While the dwarfs are in grief, a Prince appears and saves Snow White. The queen is punished in the end.
By reading this tale, you learned that if you live good you will be happy like Snow White, and if you do evil you will be punished like the queen.
The best among Andersen's works is "The Little Mermaid," published in 1837. "The Little Mermaid" portrays innocent love. It is a masterpiece that touches the hearts of children and adults. That is why it is loved by the world in movies and plays.
There is a mermaid statue in the port of Copenhagen, Denmark. The little mermaid wants so much to be with the loving Prince so she gives her voice to the sea witch to become human, but the Prince marries a princess of a neighboring kingdom. Tragic but beautiful, shall we recall this tale about beautiful love?
A TALE OF THE CHRIST
Later that day, as Judah watches the parade from the streets, he accidentally dislodges a tile from the roof from where he is standing. It hits the procurator and Judah is pointed out by Messala as the assassin. He is arrested and is sent to the galleys; his mother and sister are led out of the house. All of their possessions, including their palatial house, are taken by the Romans. Judah vows to take revenge on Messala.
Years later, Judah becomes one of the oarsmen of Quintus Arrius. Arrius has heard his story and decides to adopt him, making him heir to all his properties. Five years pass and Judah decides to return to Antioch and search for his mother and sister. There, he meets again Messala−his nemesis.
Judah’s story runs parallel to the story of Jesus Christ−both coming from the same region and of similar age, both experiencing betrayal, conviction, and redemption
Buck loves his happy, royal aristocratic life. But this life is about to change when a gardener’s helper secretly sell Buck. The night he is kidnapped, Buck feels something terrible is going to happen soon.
His long journey takes him to Alaska where he is sold to become a sled dog. There he encounters obstacles like cruelty of many humans, some vicious dogs, and they very cold weather. From these he learns an important lesson: Nothing is fair. Once you’re down, you’re dead. Then he receives another shock. He is turned into a working dog.
Buck and his mates are eventually sold to new owners, who are obviously untrained for sled traveling. They mistreat Buck. Fortunately, he is saved by John Thornton after a terrible beating. Buck shows gratitude by saving John from drowning and wins him a large sum of money.
Buck loves John, but something also calls out to him, leading him into farthest part of the forest, something that cause him to feel strange, new feeling of longing and excitement.
In this story, master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen paints an ethereal vision of hope, dreams, love, and kindness.
Moby Dick tells the adventures of Ishmael on the Peqoud, a whaling ship. Fate holds a cruel joke in stroke for him as he discovers far too late that the captain of the whaling ship, Ahab, is a man obsessed with finding Moby Dick, the great while whale who chewed up his leg. In Ahab’s eyes, Moby Dick is someone who has wronged him and takes great pleasure in having done so, that’s why it must die. Nothing else matters to Ahab−not the whaling business or the welfare and lives of his crew−only Moby Dick’s death.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a tragic love story set in 1482 Paris. Quasimodo, the bell ringer of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, falls in love La Esmeralda, a pretty gypsy girl. But the latter is in love with Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers.
Unknown to them, Claude Frollo, the cathedral’s archdeacon, is also in love with La Esmeralda. He vows to make her his no matter what. One night, he follows Phoebus to his tryst with La Esmeralda and in a fit of jealous stabs Phoebus repeatedly. He escapes and La Esmeralda, who is found by the authorities at the scene of the crime, is captured and after being tried, is sentenced to hang in the Place de Greve. But Quasimodo saves her by swinging down by the bell rope of Notre Dame and carries her off to the cathedral under the law of sanctuary.
Later, Claude Frollo betrays La Esmeralda by hanging her to the authorities and even watches while she is being hanged. In anger despair, Quasimodo pushes the archdeacon from the heights of Notre Dame to his death.
Years later, when people exhume the skeletons of La Esmeralda, they find another skeleton belonging to a man, tightly embracing her. The skeleton is horribly disfigured.
Would she keep her promise or not?
Once there was a giant who too selfish to allow children to play in his beautiful garden. Because of this, spring, summer and autumn refused to enter the garden.
Only winter remained and kept the plants from rejoicing and the birds from singing. Until a little boy came into the garden-and it was never the same again for the selfish giant.
The story reveals Oscar Wilde's gift for romantic allegory in Chriistian literature and his unfailing belief in God.
*Beauty and the Beast
*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
*The Little Mermaid
LAMPARA BOOKS BARES CHILDREN’S STORY WRITING WINNERS
"Sinemadyika," by Lauren V. Macaraeg, won first prize in the 1st Annual Lampara Books Children’s Story Writing Contest, winning for its author, an AB Interdisciplinary Studies graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, a cash prize of Php30,00.00. Second prize, with a cash prize of Php15,000.00, went to "Susie Simangot" by Mark Anthony Angeles, a BA Journalism graduate of Polytechnic University of the Philippines and currently a technical support representative with Convergys Philippines, while the third prize, with a cash prize of Php10,000.00 went to "Prince of the Cranes"by Marites Rogado, an AB Political Science graduate of the University of the East and currently taking her MA in Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
The contest was sponsored by Lampara Publishing House, Inc. (LPHI).
The three winners were chosen from a field of 178 entries, with 30 entries disqualified due to lack of requirements, by a board of judges composed of:
Ms. Becky Bravo, award-winning author of children’s stories and editor-writer-translator at LPHI;
Ms. Edith Garcia, editor at LPHI and editor-in-chief at LPHI’s sister company, Precious Pages Corporation (PPC);
Mr. Joen Chionglo, film and television scriptwriter and head of LPHI art department; and Boots S. Agbayani-Pastor, award-winning film scriptwriter and writer-editor-translator at LPHI.
LPHI and PPC president and general manager, Mr. Segundo Matias, Jr. congratulates the winners.
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