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My Filipino Word Book
Fancy, Robin Lyn and Vala Jeanne Welch. Ronny Lynn, ill., My Filipino Word Book. Bess Press (3565 Harding Ave., Honolulu, Hawaii 96816), 2007. 28p. ISBN 13: 078-1-57306-276-3 (hc), $14.95 USD. Illus.
My Filipino Word Book by first time authors Robin Lyn Fancy and Vala Jeanne Welch captures island life by filling the book with bright colors and dreamy water color pictures by Ronny Lynn, while also teaching simple English, Tagalog, and Ilokano words. The book is designed for young children and describes basic shapes, colors, animals and numbers 1-10 in the three languages. The book is not intended to be a dictionary, nor does it pose English as the main language in the book; it merely is a tool to expose children to all three languages and each language is given equal representation.
The colors and simplicity of the book is what makes it so attractive, especially to young children. Each page in the book has a word provided in the three languages with a brightly colored illustration by Ronny Lynn. The book is filled with images of objects that can be commonly found in Hawaii or the Philippines such as mango, jackfruit and roosters. The clear connection between Hawaii and the Philippines in the book can be derived from the fact that Fancy and Welch are from the island of Lana‛i, which has a large Filipino community in such a small city.
Fancy and Welch are educators at Lanai High and Elementary School. They wrote the book as part of a literacy project for their community and published it with a grant from the Robert E. Black Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation.
This book is excellent for Hawaii libraries due the large Filipino community in Hawaii, especially in Lanai. A progressive feature of the book is the fact that it has two important dialects to Hawaii-Filipinos, Tagalog and Ilokano. Tagalog is the main language of the Philippines, but Ilokano is the most prevalent Filipino dialect in Hawai‛i, making this book more applicable to Filipinos living in Hawaii. Other than placing English as the first language in translating the term, the book has no language priority. My Filipino Word Book is an excellent book for children who would like to become familiar with any of these three languages.
My Filipino Word Book by first time authors Robin Lyn Fancy and Vala Jeanne Welch captures island life by filling the book with bright colors and dreamy water color pictures by Ronny Lynn, while also teaching simple English, Tagalog, and Ilokano words. The book is designed for young children and describes basic shapes, colors, animals and numbers 1-10 in the three languages. The book is not intended to be a dictionary, nor does it pose English as the main language in the book; it merely is a tool to expose children to all three languages and each language is given equal representation.
The colors and simplicity of the book is what makes it so attractive, especially to young children. Each page in the book has a word provided in the three languages with a brightly colored illustration by Ronny Lynn. The book is filled with images of objects that can be commonly found in Hawaii or the Philippines such as mango, jackfruit and roosters. The clear connection between Hawaii and the Philippines in the book can be derived from the fact that Fancy and Welch are from the island of Lana‛i, which has a large Filipino community in such a small city.
Fancy and Welch are educators at Lanai High and Elementary School. They wrote the book as part of a literacy project for their community and published it with a grant from the Robert E. Black Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation.
This book is excellent for Hawaii libraries due the large Filipino community in Hawaii, especially in Lanai. A progressive feature of the book is the fact that it has two important dialects to Hawaii-Filipinos, Tagalog and Ilokano. Tagalog is the main language of the Philippines, but Ilokano is the most prevalent Filipino dialect in Hawai‛i, making this book more applicable to Filipinos living in Hawaii. Other than placing English as the first language in translating the term, the book has no language priority. My Filipino Word Book is an excellent book for children who would like to become familiar with any of these three languages.
Submitted by Christina Abelardo, LIS Student, April 2007
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