Ang Parusa ng Duwende

Ang Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang ni Severino Reyes

by Severino Reyes, Christine S. Bellen-Ang, Elbert Or (Illustrator)

BILINGUAL CHILDEN'S BOOK

Genres: Childrens

29 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Severino Reyes (1861–1942) was a Filipino writer, playwright, and director known as the "Father of Tagalog Plays" and the creator of the classic short story series, Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang. He was also one of the founders and served as editor-in-chief for Liwayway, a popular Tagalog magazine. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines placed a historical marker at his house, and a street in Manila was renamed in his honor. In 2022, Google honored him with a Doodle on his 161st birthday.

Reviews

[K.D. Absolutely · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the individual illustrated books that Anvil Publishing, Inc. released to make the reading of Reyes' masterpiece more appealing to children.

All these books have a standard prologue entitled "For Teachers and Parents" and this is what it says about these stories: "The themes (of the stories) are relevant to their (children) needs and from these can be drawn lessons, delight and pleasure, and other ways of appreciation of Philippine literature."

Let me see how this book fares (in my humble opinion):

Theme: Friendly dwarf for a playmate means better future.

Lessons:
1) Dwarfs know what's going on. Always.
2) Be nice to your house servants.
3) No to child labor.

Delight and Pleasure:
It's the colorful illustrations with very minimal texts that make this book really fun to read. The mischievous dwarf is too yellowy cute.

Other Ways of Appreciation of Philippine Literature:
That Filipinos of the olden times believe in the existence of friendly dwarfs. They think that dwarfs are the guardians of gold buried under the ground.

Overall: Theme is great and you will feel sympathy for the maltreated houseboy. I liked this one.

[Crimson Subaru · Rating 5 out of 5]

thi is the great book that i read

[Wren]

332

[Erille Julianne]

save

[Julier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sa tingin ko madami akong matutunan dito at maiibahagi sa ibang tao upang ang kwentong ito ay magkaron ng isang aral.

[Jiancarlo Cultura]

Amazing

[Dianne Mae]

Good story

[Marize Pitahin]

save this book

[Kb Kentbryan]

nice

[Jopaycanete · Rating 5 out of 5]

k

[Alessandra Ube · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is good for me

[Jesus]

ang parusa ng duwende

[Cristal · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting

[Alliah Jhoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is cool and i have lots of lessons can learn here

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't view it

[Harold Adorna · Rating 4 out of 5]

i think it is a good story,so

[Nhicca]

Read it

[Mahdi Capampangan]

its good

[Athena Montebon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I WANT TO READ