Awards and Bestsellers

• Six-time winner
  National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• 1994 Ceres Alabado Award
  for Outstanding Children’s Literature

• You Know You’re Filipino If…
  A Pinoy Primer
  Over 60,000 copies sold

• Why the Pina Has a Hundred Eyes
  and Other Philippine Folk Tales About Fruits
  1993 National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• Earthquake!
  1994 National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• The Mats
  1995 National Book Award for Children’s Literature
  Ten Best Books of 1995 (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

• Incredible Mysteries:
  Natural Wonders of the Philippines
  1996 National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• The Brothers Wu & the Good-Luck Eel
  2000 National Book Award for Children’s Literature
  IBBY Pick of the Lists

• Once Upon a Time:
  Ten Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
  (also available in Filipino as Noong Unang Panahon)
  2002 National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• The Shepherd’s Voice:
  Gospel Reflections for All Seasons
  2002 National Book Award for Best Religious Book

• Tahanan’s Great Lives Series
  (Biographies of Filipino Heroes for Young People)
  1992 and 1995 Citation for Excellence from the Manila Critics Circle

• The Best of Lola Basyang:
  Timeless Tales for the Filipino Family
  1998 Gintong Aklat Award for Children’s Literature
  1998 National Book Award for Best Anthology

• Indio Bravo:
  The Story of Jose Rizal
  Nominated, 1998 Gintong Aklat Award for Children’s Literature

• First Around the Globe:
  The Story of Enrique
  Nominated, 1998 Gintong Aklat Award for Children’;s Literature

• The Dog Trilogy
  Nominated, 1999 National Book Award for Children’s Literature

• The Quarreling Kites
  Nominated, 2000 National Book Award for Children’s Literature