The PBBY is a private, nonstock, nonprofit organization committed to the development of children's literature in the Philippines. The PBBY is the lead agency in the celebration of National Children's Book Day (NCBD). This is celebrated every third Tuesday of July to commemorate the anniversary of the publication of Jose Rizal's "The Monkey and the Turtle" in Trubner's Oriental Record in London.
This yearâs grand prize winner of the PBBY-Alcala Prize is Christina L. Javier, a mixed media and collage artist from Cavite. Ms. Javier won for her illustrations based on Iza Maria Reyesâs story, Ang Tahanang Hindi Tumatahan. Reyes won the grand prize at the 2021 PBBY-Salanga Prize.
Javierâs art involves recycling used paper, reused stamps, and punched paper to add style and texture to her work. She has been a contributor for two issues of Novice Magazine and has been commissioned by the NCCA, under the e-storytelling project of Sentro Rizal in 2020. She is currently a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK).
The PBBY also recognized four Honorable Mention winners: Rommel Joson, Rosslynd Kamille Du, Maria Angela Taguiang, and Allyana Leizel Lopez.
The winners will be awarded at the 38th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration on July 20, 2021.
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat by email: [email protected].
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting digital entries for the 2021 PBBY-Alcala Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of PHP25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded at a virtual ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Childrenâs Book Day on July 20, 2021.
DEADLINE
Entries must be sent to [email protected], with the subject ALCALA2021, by June 4, 2021.
CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.
Entries must be based on the 2021 PBBY-Salanga Prize winning piece, Ang Tahanang Hindi Tumatahan by Iza Maria Reyes. A copy of the story may be downloaded here.
All entries must be original, unpublished illustrations that have not won in any previous contest.
All entries must consist of three (3) illustrations that are of the same size, two of which are colored and in sequence. The third spread should be a   rough sketch of any other spread. The artworks should be in 72 dpi. Contestants are free to determine how to distribute the text for their spreads, bearing in mind that the interaction of art and text is an important criterion of the contest.
All three artworks should be compiled in one PDF. The total size of the PDF should not exceed 5 MB. The PDF file name should follow the format: 2021ALCALA_YourPenName.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit a document containing the contestantâs full name, address, contact numbers and a short literary background, as well as a statement from the author, vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication, and affirming that the entry or any variant thereof has (a) never been published nor (b) won any other contest i.e. that it has never won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention in any other contest or otherwise been awarded a medal, a citation, or included in a publicized list of meritorious entries to a literary contest. The file name should follow the format: YourName_Bio and YourName_StatementOfOriginality.
Iza Maria Reyes Wins 2021 PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) awards this yearâs PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize to Iza Maria G. Reyes for her story, Ang Tahanang Hindi Tumatahan. It is a poignant piece about the pain and hardship a family goes through in the middle of a separation, beautifully told through a metaphor of a crying house.
Reyes is a teacher who is currently taking her masterâs in Malikhaing Pagsulat at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was a fellow for Creative Nonfiction at Palihang Rogelio Sicat 10 and the 1st PUP Multi-Genre Workshop, and has won awards for her essays in Filipino. This is her first PBBY-Salanga Prize.
With over a hundred entries submitted for this yearâs prize, six other stories were also selected as Honorable Mention winners (in no particular order): Palayok-palayukan para kay Carlito by Eugene Y. Evasco; Ang Mga Bata sa Kalye ng Banaba by Kwesi M. Junsan; Ang Mga Paralisdis ni Inday Faustina by Eugene Y. Evasco; Goodfire by Bea S. Mandapat; Oplan Sablay by Kristoffer Aaron G. TiĂąa; and Mamay Esing by Jobert Grey Landeza.
The winners will be awarded at the 38th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration on July 20, 2021.
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat by email: [email protected].
The 2019 PBBY Wordless Book Prize winner proves that pictures can transport you to different worlds without the limits of language. Words aren't always necessary to tell a compelling story.Â
Ang Mga Sikreto ng Langit at Dagat
Nina Patricia C. Martinez
2019 PBBY Wordless Book Prize Winner Â
A little girl in the city daydreams about the world beyond her condo.
Nina Patricia C. Martinez is a freelance graphic artist and illustrator. She has illustrated and designed for NGOs and businesses, as well as for magazines and books.
For publishing inquiries, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, at [email protected].
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting digital entries for the 2021 PBBY-Salanga Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of P25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in a ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Childrenâs Book Day on July 20, 2021.
DEADLINE: Entries must be sent to [email protected], with the subject SALANGA2021, by January 22, 2021.
The contest rules are as follows:
Open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.
Content should be intended for children aged 6â12 years old. The content and sequence must be capable of sustaining an illustrated book of 28 to 32 pages.
Entries may be in Filipino or English.
Entries must be in PDF, double-spaced. Each entry must be 2,000â5,000 words long. The PDF file name should follow the format: 2021SALANGA_YourPenName.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
Each entry must be signed by a pen name only.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit a document containing the contestantâs full name, address, contact numbers and a short literary background, as well as a statement from the author, vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication, and affirming that the entry or any variant thereof has (a) never been published nor (b) won any other contest i.e. that it has never won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention in any other contest or otherwise been awarded a medal, a citation, or included in a publicized list of meritorious entries to a literary contest. The file name should follow the format: YourName_Bio and YourName_StatementOfOriginality.
Winners will be announced no later than March 16, 2021.
Grand prize and honorable mention winners shall be subject to a bidding process to be facilitated by PBBY, to determine which publisher/s will publish their winning stories.
The winning story will be the basis for the 2021 PBBY-Alcala Prize.
For more details, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, at [email protected].
The grand prize winner of the 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize is Victoria Melissa R. Tadiar. Ms. Tadiar won for her illustrations based on Boon Kristoffer Lauwâs chapter book, Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo. Lauw won the grand prize at the 2020 PBBY-Salanga Prize, the first time the competition was opened to chapter books.
Tadiar is a full-time IT professional who works on comics and illustrations in her free time. She won the Komiket Best Komiks Award in 2017 for her Filipiniana fantasy comic SAGALA, which was released as a self-published graphic novel in 2019. Her current project, Twinkle, Twinkle, is an Official Selection finalist at the First Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF). She is also a new member of Ang INK (Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan), the only professional organization of childrenâs illustrators.
Tadiar will be awarded at the 37th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration on July 21, 2020.
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY secretariat at [email protected].
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of PHP25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in an appropriate ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Childrenâs Book Day on July 21, 2020.
DEADLINE
Entries must be received by the PBBY Secretariat and time-stamped no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 30, 2020.
CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.
Entries must be based on the 2020 PBBY-Salanga Prize winning piece, Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo by Boon Kristoffer Lauw.
A copy of the story may be downloaded here.
All entries must be original, unpublished illustrations that have not won in any previous contest.
All entries must consist of three (3) illustrations (cover art and two chapter illustrations) of the same size, two of which are colored and rendered in the same medium. The third should be a rough sketch of one of the chapter illustrations.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
Each entry must be signed by a pen name only, preferably on a small piece of paper pasted on the back of each artwork. Entries with a signature or any identifying marks are automatically disqualified.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit a separate envelope, on the face of which only the pen name of the contestant shall appear. The envelope must contain the contestantâs full name, address, contact numbers, short description of background, and notarized certification vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication. A format of the certification may be downloaded here.
All entries must be sent to the PBBY Secretariat, c/o Adarna House, 109 Scout Fernandez cor. Scout Torillo Sts., Brgy. Sacred Heart, Quezon City by May 30, 2020. Entries may be submitted in person or by courier service.
Winners will be announced no later than June 15, 2020. Non-winning entries must be claimed no later than July 20, 2020 after which they will no longer be the responsibility of the organizers.
For more details, interested parties may contact PBBY by calling 8352-6765 local 204 or emailing [email protected].
This yearâs grand prize winner of the PBBY-Salanga Prize is Boon Kristoffer Lauw for his novel, Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo. For the first time in the history of the prize, the contest was open to chapter books. Lauwâs winning piece is about an orphan who plans to join the televised Laro ng Lahi contest to help her locate her parents.
Aside from Lauw, two other writers won in this yearâs prize, both garnering honourable mention: Raissa Rivera Falgui and Tamara Eriel Mosqueda.
Lauw, who hails from General Santos City, is a chemical engineer currently teaching ADTech2 at the Philippine Science High School. He took part in the 3rd Amelia LapeĂąa Bonifacio Writersâ Workshop last 2018 and was also part of the UP Likhaan Institute of Creative Writing. This is his first PBBY-Salanga Prize.
Lauw will be awarded at the 37th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration on July 21, 2020.
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat through telephone 8352-6765 loc 204 or email [email protected]. Â
2020 PBBY-Salanga Chapter Book Prize: Call for Entries
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2020 PBBY-Salanga Chapter Book Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of P25,000.00, a gold medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in an appropriate ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Childrenâs Book Day on July 21, 2020.
DEADLINE: Entries must be received by the PBBY Secretariat and time-stamped no later than 5:00 p.m. on November 8, 2019.
The contest rules are as follows:
1. Open to all Filipino citizens, as well as non-Filipino residents with dual citizenship, except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity. For foreigners, they must have spent at least six months (can be accumulated) in the Philippines for the past six (6) years.
2. Stories should be intended for children aged 8â12, with not less than 15,000 words and not more than 30,000 words.
3. Entries may be in English or Filipino.
4. Plot may be anything that relates to a Filipino childâs experience.
5. Entries must be in hard copy, 1.5 space, Times New Roman 12 with 1-inch margins on short bond paper.
6. On a separate sheet, contestant must identify the target grade level, number of words, and the synopsis of the story. Â Contestant may also include suggestions to teachers for enrichment activities.
7. A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
8. Each entry must be signed by a pen name only. Five (5) copies of each entry should be placed in an envelope, on the face of which only the pen name of the contestant should appear.
9. Together with each entry, contestants must submit a second envelope, on the face of which the pen name shall appear. This must contain the contestantâs full name, address, contact numbers, a short literary background, and a notarized certification from the author, vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication, and affirming that the entry or any variant thereof has (a) never been published nor (b) won any other contest i.e. that it has never won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, honorable mention in any other contest or otherwise been awarded a medal, a citation, or included in a publicized list of meritorious entries to a literary contest.
10. All entries must be sent through snail mail or personally dropped off at the PBBY Secretariat, c/o Adarna House, Inc., Scout Torillo cor. Scout Fernandez Sts., Barangay Sacred Heart, Quezon City.
11. All entries must be received by the PBBY Secretariat no later than 5:00 p.m., November 8, 2019.
12. Winners will be announced no later than November 29, 2019. Non-winning entries will be disposed of by the PBBY Secretariat.
Grand prize and honorable mention winners shall be subject to a bidding process to be facilitated by PBBY, to determine which publisher/s will publish their winning stories.
The winning story will be the basis for the 2020 PBBY-Alcala Prize.
For more details, interested parties may contact the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, at (02) 8352 6765 local 203 or email [email protected].
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) invites all publishers to bid for the publication of the works that won the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize and the 2019 PBBY-Alcala Prize.
The 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize went to Gabriela Dans Lee for her story, A Delicate Strength: The Story and Art of Araceli Dans. The 2019 PBBY-Alcala Prize went to Adrian Panadero.
The winning bidder shall have the privilege of not only publishing the winners of both contests, but also bear the PBBY medal on the cover of their publications.Â
The publisher of the winning works shall be decided by both the winning author and illustrator.
Below are the requirements for bidding. Deadline for submission of bids is on August 31, 2019.Â
The requirements for bidding are as follows:
1. The bidding is open to all publishers who have at least been publishing childrenâs books for the last three (3) years.
2. You should submit the following requirements on or before the deadline
a letter stating the intention to participate in this yearâs bid, addressed to Tarie Sabido, Chair of the PBBY
a non-refundable bidding fee of P500.00
a copy of your companyâs SEC registration
your standard Memorandum of Agreement with book authors and illustrators;
proof of membership in the Book Developersâ Association of the Philippines (BDAP) and National Book Development Board (NBDB)
samples of childrenâs books your company has published
 3. You shall submit a letter stating that you will able to launch a childrenâs book based on the winning works by July 1, 2020.
4. Late bids shall be rejected. Bids will be opened in the presence of a non-publisher PBBY member assigned by the board.
5. PBBY reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process and reject all bids at any time prior to the contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidders.
36th NCBD: Br. Armin A. Luistro FSC Keynote Address
36th National Childrenâs Book DayÂ
Mundong Payapa para sa Kabataang Malaya
KeynoteâBr. Armin A. Luistro FSC
Greetings to our National Artist for Literature, Virgilio Almario; the Chair of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Icon of the Universe, Margie Moran; the CCP Vice Chair and Artistic Director, Chris Millado; the Chair of the National Book Development Board, Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz; the Chair of Museo Pambata, Nina Lim-Yuson; the Philippine Board on Books for Young People Chair, Tarie Sabido, and its Secretary General, Ani Rosa Almario; and the Director of the National Library, Cesar Gilbert Adriano. Distinguished guests, esteemed colleagues in the academe, ladies and gentlemen: Magandang Umaga po sa inyong lahat!
While exiled in Dapitan, Jose Rizal in 1895 described his experience in a sober disposition with resigned serenity and undiminished hope. When I consider our political landscape today, I must admit I am tempted to greedily appropriate these lines for myself (and here I quote a few lines in its Filipino translation):
Gabiây bumubulong sa gitna ng sindak at pagkaligalig, At sa dagat namaây bughawât lunting apoy ang pasilip-silip; Pagngiti ng arawây payapa na naman ang buong paligid, At mula sa laot, yaong mangingisda ay napagigilid, Sugod na ang lunday at ang mga alon ay nananahimik.Â
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Yaong pananalig na ibig ko sanang makitang kumislap Sa dakilang araw ng pangingibabaw ng Isip sa lakas; Kung makalipas na itong kamatayaât labanang marahas, Ay may ibang tinig, na lalong masigla at puspos ng galak, Na siyang aawit ng pananagumpay ng matwid sa lahat. Aking natatanaw na kulay-rosas na ang magandang langit [!]
One might ask why Pepe even bothered to write? Was it his mother egging him or Josephine? Was the motivation from within or was there pressure from without? Was he driven by altruism or was it pure ego? In his essay âWhy I Writeâ, George Orwell names four motives for writing: (a) sheer egoism or the desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death; (b)Â aesthetic enthusiasm or the perception of beauty in the external world or in words and their right arrangement; (c) historical impulse or the desire to see things as they are; and finally (d) political purpose and here I quote Orwellâs own description of his motivation:
What I have most wanted to do⌠is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, âI am going to produce a work of artâ. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing⌠if it were not also an aesthetic experience. Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevantâŚ. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
And so today we gather to celebrate National Childrenâs Book Day. Compulsive bibliophiles and impassioned pedagogues are welcome. Anyone who sincerely love and respect children must share in our jubilation. During the early years of the K to 12 reform, when we were rolling out the MTB-MLE program âlike a woman in labor, gasping and pantingâ, we were confronted with the huge problem of the lack of original stories in the mother tongue that could be used for the primary grades. What we had were translations of the usual publications in English and Filipino. But while these old-time favorites were great stories and classics in their own right, they did not speak the language, culture and traditions that were familiar with the first-time readers. We found the solution by appealing to our public school teachers to gather oral traditions and to document original stories from the local communities. When I went around our primary schools a year or two later, I found much joy and pride in the teachersâ presentation of original stories from the localities in a big book version authored and illustrated by our own teachers. By now, there must be hundreds of original stories out there in the field and used in the classrooms obviously requiring some editorial intervention but definitely ready to be harvested into an anthology of original Filipino stories in the mother tongue.Â
We encountered the same problem when DepED shifted to local history as the starting point for Araling Panlipunan. Since most barangays or municipalities do not have adequate publications on their local histories, it was close to impossible to get any essays or resources on local heroes and community chronicles. Our DepED teachers again came to the rescue and did their own share in compiling articles and pictures and sources so students could begin to know the Philippines and the world with their hometown as anchor for their historical journey. Would anyone have the discipline and the patriotism to gather those materials and work with our teachers and the local communities to further develop the collection into a serious publication?Â
In our celebration today, we especially welcome our esteemed writers and chroniclers, essayists and poets, novelists and biographers, illustrators and artists, publishers and editors. We are rolling out the red carpet to those who are giftedânay, compelledâto write because they have a story to tell, or a lie to expose, or history to be recorded, or beauty to be captured. Do not worry if egoism gets in the way, for that will eventually sort itself out. But write as though it were your life-blood. Write as though this nationâs very existence lies on the tip of your quill. This nation is in search of its soul and you cannot allow money or politics or armaments to continue to dangle their empty promises or to resurrect the ghosts of yesteryears. In the words of Carlos P. Romulo, the might of your pen may yet bring every Filipino to discover that: âThe seed I bear within me is an immortal seed⌠It is the insignia of my race, and my generation is but a stage in the unending search of my people for freedom and happiness.â
I must warn you though: if you wish to take your mission seriously, then have courage! Pepe and many others during his time were martyred because they dared write. In another era and cultural milieu, the same fate befell an eminent scholar and a genius of translation, William Tyndale, who translated the Bible directly from Hebrew and Greek into English. Referring to the English language while comparing him to William Shakespeare, Hannah Bowers writes:
Tyndale was burned alive in a small town in Belgium in 1536. His crime was to have translated the Bible into English. He was effectively martyred after fighting against cruel and eventually overwhelming forces, which tried for more than a dozen years to prevent him from putting the Word of God into his native language. More than any other man he laid the foundation of our modern language which became by degrees a world language. His legacy matches that other pillar of our language â Shakespeare, whose genius was in imagination.
From an era when books were unavailable, the first printing press has revolutionized the landscape and made books available to ordinary people. That may yet be the most critical challenge for us in the Philippines. Fast-forward to the 21st century, we find that access to digitized resources has become a real game-changer in our world. In fact, by the end of 2017, there were already 4.2 billion internet users representing 54.4% of the worldâs population. It was the same year when Thomas Friedman, writing in the New York Times, took note of a critical moment of history that is now irreversible:
And so it came to pass that in the winter of 2016 the world hit a tipping pointâŚwhen we realized that a critical mass of our lives and work had shifted away from the terrestrial world to a realm known as âcyberspace.â That is to say, a critical mass of our interactions had moved to a realm where weâre all connected but no oneâs in charge.Â
After all, there are no stoplights in cyberspace, no police officers walking the beat, no courts, no judges, no God who smites evil and rewards goodâŚ
That seems to me like a mirror image of what is happening in the country today where newsâor rather, fake newsâis written by trolls and boosts and bots who rule in this era where populism is deified and where surveys and polls and votes of the majority stir the pot of violence and division. As the movers and shakers add chaos to the confusion, the thinkers and visionaries are nowhere to be found. I long to hear the voice of our poets and writers and artists where the nationâs soul resides.
Well, the truth is that the gains of the 3rd industrial revolution has become a real affliction for me as there are moments when I truly long to go on self-imposed exile into an island with no wifi connection and where I can get my downtime from viber and instagram and whatsapp⌠watch sunsets, smell flowers, sip Barako coffee and simply turn the pages of a good read under the shades of a century-old Narra. Iyan na siguro ang bunga ng aking pangangarap ng gising para sa isang Mundong Payapa para sa Kabataang Malaya! If we were to give every Filipino child that âdowntimeâ to seek that which âonly the heart can see rightlyâ by offering them the stories that can only come from our forebears and can only be told and written by Filipinos, then we would certainly have the joy of creating a nation for our children which the other Pepe, surnamed Diokno, dreamed of:
A NOBLE nation, where homage is paid not to who a person is or what the person owns, but to what the person is and what the person does. A PROUD nation, where poverty chains no man to the plow, forces no woman to prostitute herself and condemns no child to scrounge among garbage. A FREE nation, where men and women and children from all regions and with all kinds of talents may find truth and play and sing and laugh and dance and love without fear. A JUST nation⌠where poverty, ignorance, and hunger are attacked⌠every breadwinner, a job⌠every farmer, a land⌠every family, a home⌠and everyone, a steadily improving quality of life. An INDEPENDENT nation, which rejects foreign dictation, depends on itself, thinks for itself, and decides for itself⌠An HONORABLE nation where public powers are used for the public good⌠where leaders speak not only well but truthfully and act honestly; a nation that is itself and seeks to live in peace and brotherhood with all other nations of the world.
On this 36th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration, with the might of our pens and courage in our hearts, let us proclaim this truth and claim it as our very own. Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat.
Mundong Payapa Para Sa Kabataang Malaya: The 36th National Childrenâs Book Day
Come and join the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) in their festivities on July 16 and 20 as they celebrate the 36th National Childrenâs Book Day (NCBD) with the theme, âMundong Payapa Para Sa Kabataang Malaya.âÂ
National Childrenâs Book Day Awarding Ceremonies and Exhibit Opening
The NCBD is celebrated every third Tuesday of July in honor of the publication of Dr. Jose Rizalâs The Monkey and the Turtle in the July 1889 issue of TrĂźbner's Oriental Record in England. In cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), and Museo Pambata, this yearâs celebration will be held on July 16, 2019 at the Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little Theater Lobby) of the CCP. The event is highlighted by the awarding ceremonies of the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize, the 2019 PBBY-Alcala Prize, and the 2019 PBBY Wordless Book Prize. The PBBY will also hold the exhibit opening of the Alcala Prize and the Wordless Book Prize winners at the same venue.Â
You may visit the PBBY website (www.pbby.org.ph) for more info about this yearâs winners.Â
National Childrenâs Book Day in Baguio City
This yearâs NCBD is going to Baguio City on July 20, 2019 with an illustration workshop and a series of discussions for writers, teachers, librarians, and all book lovers at Baguio Central School. Award-winning illustrator, Ruben de Jesus (Ang Mahiyaing Manok), will be conducting a workshop on visual storytelling for children; award-winning author and librarian, Zarah Gagatiga (Tales from the 7,000 Isles: Filipino Folk Stories), will share her effective reading guidance strategies for children and young adults; Rey Bufi, founder of The Storytelling Project, will talk about the art of storytelling; and renowned educator, Dr. Dina Ocampo, will discuss the significance of stories in families. Â
Registration fee for the talks is PHP600.00Â and PHP1200.00 for the illustration workshop. To reserve your slot, email [email protected].Â
Mt. Cloud Bookstore will also hold a storytelling session with Rey Bufi on the same day, at 3:00 pm, for a door fee of PHP100.00.
For inquiries and more details, visit the PBBY Facebook page.
Celebrate the 36th National Childrenâs Book Day on July 16, 2019. Post your activities on Facebook using the hashtags #36thNCBD and #NCBD2019, and we shall share your photos on our page!Â
Donât forget to use our official poster illustrated by our dear friend, Abi Goy!Â
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People awards the 2019 PBBY-Alcala Prize to Adrian C. Panadero, a Visual Communication graduate from the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts and a graphic designer at And A Half Branding and Graphic Design.
This yearâs PBBY-Alcala Prize called for entries based on the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize-winning story, A Delicate Strength: The Story and Art of Araceli Limcaco Dans by Gabriela Lee. A Delicate Strength is a creative nonfiction piece about the young Araceli Dansâ first encounter with art and how it eventually helped her family and country in a time of war.
Panadero shall receive a cash prize of PHP25, 000 and a medal, as well as the opportunity to be published. He will be awarded at the 36th National Childrenâs Book Day celebration on July 16, 2019. The PBBY also recognized three Honorable Mention winners: Frances Alvarez, Ivan Bryan Reverente, and Arlei Dormiendo.Â
The contest is co-sponsored by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat at telephone number 352-6765 loc. 203 or e-mail [email protected].
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) declared Nina Patricia C. Martinez as the 2019 PBBY Wordless Book Prize. Martinez, a freelance graphic artist and illustrator, bagged the grand prize with her entry, Ang Mga Sikreto ng Langit at Dagat.
Martinez has a degree in Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has illustrated and designed for NGOs and businesses, as well as for magazines and books.
Martinez shall receive a medal and a cash prize worth Twenty Thousand Pesos at the National Childrenâs Book Day ceremonies at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on July 16, 2019.
For inquiries about the contest, contact the PBBY Secretariat at telephone number 352-6765 loc. 203 or e-mail [email protected]
The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) is now accepting entries for the 2019 PBBY-Alcala Prize. The winner shall be given a cash prize of PHP25,000.00, a medal, and an opportunity to be published. Prizes will be awarded in an appropriate ceremony to be held during the celebration of National Childrenâs Book Day on July 16, 2019.
DEADLINE
Entries must be received by the PBBY Secretariat and time-stamped no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 7, 2019.
CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all Filipino citizens except those who are related to any PBBY member up to the third degree of consanguinity.
Entries must be based on the 2019 PBBY-Salanga Prize winning piece of the creative nonfiction, A Delicate Strength: The Story and Art of Araceli Limcaco Dans by Gabriela Lee.
A copy of the creative nonfiction piece may be downloaded here.
All entries must be original, unpublished illustrations that have not won in any previous contest.
All entries must consist of three (3) illustrations that are of the same size, two of which are colored, in sequence, and rendered in the same medium. The third spread should be a rough sketch of any other spread. Contestants are free to determine how to distribute the text for their spreads, bearing in mind that the interaction of art and text is an important criterion of the contest.
A contestant may send in more than one (1) entry.
Each entry must be signed by a pen name only, preferably on a small piece of paper pasted on the back of each artwork. Entries with a signature or any identifying marks are automatically disqualified.
Together with each entry, contestants must submit a separate envelope, on the face of which only the pen name of the contestant shall appear. The envelope must contain the contestantâs full name, address, contact numbers, short description of background, and notarized certification vouching for the originality of the entry and for the freedom of the organizers from any liability arising from the infringement of copyright in case of publication. A format of the certification may be downloaded here.Â
All entries must be sent to the PBBY Secretariat, c/o Adarna House, 109 Scout Fernandez cor. Scout Torillo Sts., Brgy. Sacred Heart, Quezon City by June 7, 2019. Entries may be submitted in person or by courier service.
Winners will be announced no later than June 21, 2019. Non-winning entries must be claimed no later than August 16, 2019 after which they will no longer be the responsibility of the organizers.
For more details, interested parties may contact PBBY by calling 352 6765 local 204 or e-mailing [email protected].
