Ang Alamat ng Lamok

Ang Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang ni Severino Reyes

by Severino Reyes, Christine S. Bellen-Ang, Ruben de Jesus (Illustrator)

Naku, nandyan na ang higanteng si Amok! Paano kakalabanin ng mga taga-Tungaw ang pesteng kumukuha ng ilang kababayan nila?

Mayroong English summary.

Genres: Fiction

32 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

[Jayvie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lola: Kaya mga bata ugaliing maligo araw araw at maglinis ng kapaligiran para hindi kayo kainin ng higanteng si Amok.

Mga bata: ohpoh!!

Isang bata: eh Lola, paano po kami kakainin ng higanteng si Amok? eh, patay na po siya di'ba po.

Lola: (kamot ulo) 'Edi para hindi na lang kayo kagatin ng lamok.

Bata: Paano po mangangagat 'yung lamok Lola? Wala naman po silang mga ngipin di'ba po.

Lola: ....
....

....

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Oh mga bata, gusto niyo pa ba ng isa pang kwento??


Mga bata: ohpoh!!!

[K.D. Absolutely · Rating 2 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: Cleanliness can save your life.

Lessons:
1) Dirt can make you appealing to giants.
2) Divide and conquer.

Delight and Pleasure:
The king cannot defeat the giant so he threatens the baby giant who wails like there is no tomorrow.

Other Ways of Appreciation of Philippine Literature:
That Filipinos of the olden times believe in the existence of scary giants from the mountains. The illustrations are very apt to the barrio setting.

Overall: Theme is great but the plot is too thin.

[Justine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Talagang magaling!

[Patricia May · Rating 1 out of 5]

yes

[Bananablunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing 👍

[Fatima · Rating 5 out of 5]

W

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

zxc

[Lexberth Adeva]

it is good

[Marvin Öfanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

-_-"