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Lakas and the Manilatown Fish
By Anthony D. Robles |
ORDER -- Item #3164, Price $16.95
In this -first-ever bilingual English-Tagalog story set in the U.S., an all-American boy of Filipino descent, some amusing manongs-Filipino elders--and a fish with unusual faculties take off on a fanciful romp through a dreamscape of the imagination. Author Anthony D. Robles's irrepressibly lively characters and improbably funny adventure will delight readers. Artist Carl Angel's evocative illustrations leap off the page and pay affectionate homage to one neighborhood's Filipino-American past.
Carl Angel is a painter and illustrator whose work is exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the San Frandsco Bay Area. He was born in Bainbridge, Maryland, in 1968, raised in Hawaii, and now lives in Oakland, California. He is the illustrator of the books Mga Kuwentong Bayan; Folk Stories from the Philippines and Willie Wins, and has contributed to the anthology Honoring Our Ancestors.
Book Description from the Front Cover Flap
Can a fish talk? Can it jump and play and run-especially run-just like a small boy? When Lakas and his dad go shopping, they meet a very special fish that can do all these things and more. This fish won't stay put in his fish tank! Once it leaps out, a cast of unusual Manitatown characters chases it down Kearny Street and all the way to San Francisco Bay. Hoy, hoy! Will Lakas and his friends ever catch this sly and charming fish? Will Lakas's dearest wish come true?
Background on the Author and Illustrator
Anthony D. Robles was born in San Francisco. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including DisOrient Journalzine, Pinoy Poetics, The Asian Pacific American Journal and the anthology Seven-Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild. Lakas and! the Manilatown Fish, which was originally a bedtime story he told his own son Lakas, is his first children's book.
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