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Celebrate the 36th National Children’s 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! 

Don’t forget to use our official poster illustrated by our dear friend, Abi Goy! 

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 year’s 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 Dans’ 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 Children’s Book Day celebration on July 16, 2019. The PBBY also recognized three Honorable Mention winners: Frances Alvarez, Ivan Bryan Reverente, and Arlei Dormiendo. 

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].

Grand Prize Adrian C. Panadero

Honorable Mention Frances M. Alvarez

Honorable Mention Ivan Bryan G. Reverente

Honorable Mention Arlei Dormiendo

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 Children’s 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]

This year’s grand prize winner of the PBBY-Salanga Prize is writer Gabriela Lee for her creative nonfiction piece, A Delicate Strength: The Story and Art of Araceli Limcaco Dans. The piece is about how the young Araceli or Cely learns to capture the beauty of everything she sees through her drawings and how her art helped her family and the country, during wartime.

Araceli Limcaco Dans is one of the most influential Filipino visual artists, known for her her portraiture, still life, and her depiction of calado embroidery in her paintings.

This is Lee’s first PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize. Her poetry and fiction have been published in the Philippines, Singapore, the United States, and Australia. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of the Philippines. She is one of Dans’ twenty-nine grandchildren.

Lee will be awarded at the 36th National Children’s Book Day celebration on July 16, 2019.