children’s literature in the philippines

7/23/2019 Childrens Literature in the Philippines

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Childrens

Literature in thePhilippines


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Pre-Spanish

Babaylan Man or a woman whose task was to

teach children the mores andcustoms of the tribes.


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Spanish Era

Doctrina Cristiana

FIRST book everprinted in thehilippines.

It was !rst printed afew "ears after theSpanish takeover butwas made available toFilipino children onl" in

the #$%&'s.


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(merican Re)ime

*illiam Thames+ EdwardStrateme"er+ and Sar)ent Ra"me,#$-$ throu)h #-

/eor)e Miller


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*hen the 0niversit" of thehilippines was established in #-&$+it did not take lon) for professors of

literature Mabel Cole and DeanFansler to start collatin) nativefolklore.

ublished in #-#1 and are still amon)the richest source of folk tales fortoda"'s writers of children's

literature.


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The hilippine Readersb" Camilo 2sias

Children wereintroduced to theherita)e of worldliterature for the !rst

time


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3ola 4as"an)

(n) lawtin nieri5uin)

The stor" of eri5uin)became the !rst of6&& stories told b"3ola 4as"an).


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ostwar Developments

The FearlessSpear and 2therStories b" 3oreto

aras7Sulit

8uan 3a"a wroteand published

the Diwan)9a"uman))i andDiwan) /into


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Ceres (labado+ Clapi andamana

Ceres (labado : ma" be readil"referred to as the )odmother ofhilippine children's literature.

2r)ani;ed the Children's 3iterature(ssociation of the hilippines+Incorporated ,C3(I+ sponsored the

amana (wards and wrote severalbooks for children


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(mon) the amana winners thathave since become classics are/emma Cru;'s Makisi)+ the 4o"


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1&'s and =&'s

>ir)ilio (lmario

(n) Dra)on) ula ,to teachabout the value of red

ve)etables

Di)on) Dilaw ,theimportance of "ellow food


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8ose (rue)o

Illustrated over1& books

writtenb"beloved

stor"tellers inthe 0.S


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(lbert /amos illustrated Marian)Sinukuan and (n) (lamat n) Ilan)7Ilan)

both published b" the (darna 4ooks.

Ibarra Crisostomo


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@ick 8oa5uin published opstories for /roov" kids+

which is composed of bothori)inal stories ,e.).+ A3ilit4ulilit and retellin)s of oldones ,e.).+ AElan) 0lin)+B

the hilippine Cinderella


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Carlos alanca (ward for 3iteraturebe)an )ivin) pri;es to authors ofchildren's literature in both Filipino

and En)lish in #-$-.

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