Tahanan's Lola Basyang book

Here's yet another book of Lola Basyang stories, this time published by Tahanan Books.

Tahanan Launches Long-Awaited Popular Edition of MGA KUWENTO NI LOLA BASYANG in Original Filipino

Fans of Lola Basyang stories need not wait much longer. After close to a 20-year hibernation, readers may once again read Severino Reyes’s original tales in Filipino. Tahanan Books will launch the first volume of Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang by Severino Reyes on Monday 27 March from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at Jaymi’s Grill/ Par 43 at Fort Bonifacio. The public is invited to attend.

The twelve stories in the anthology were selected by Christine S. Bellen. Ms. Bellen based her masteral thesis on the stories of Lola Basyang and received a citation from the Manila Critics Circle for her picture-book adaptations of ten Lola Basyang tales. The Book contains an introduction by Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and is handsomely illustrated by award-winning illustrator Felix Mago Miguel.

Avid Basyang fans may once again bask in the riveting adventures spun by a tiny bespectacled old lady now fondly known by several generations as simply “Lola Basyang.” In this book you will find scorned mermaids, talking skeletons, princes cursed and transformed and other unforgettable characters inhabiting stories of adventure, humor, and romance. This is the legacy of Severino Reyes, who first published the much-beloved Lola Basyang stories in Liwayway Magazine in 1925. Using elements from both eastern and western tales, Mr. Reyes has retold and adapted close to 500 stories for Filipino readers. The author died in 1942.

Distributed by Tahahan Books and published with permission from the Severino Reyes (Lola Basyang) Publishing Corporation, Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang is available at National Bookstore, Powerbooks, and Fully Booked at a cover price of P250.

For more information, please contact Frances Ong at 818-2482 or send email to marketing@tahananbooks.com

- Beaulah's 2 Cents