Children's Big Story Books

"Gusto Ko Maalam Ka"

When parents cheer on their kids when they first learned how to talk, their support helps much more than the action itself.  Moreover, when these children first learn their ABC’s and was able to retell a single story being taught in school…it makes us giggle and even brag to every family member, a friend and in the workplace that our child knows how to talk and tell stories by themselves.

As a father I experienced the same feeling when my four sons went through the stages of learning their alphabet ….and eventually were able to read their books.

Such revelation inspires me to come up with a project to provide Big Story Books with vivid pictures not  only to teach these little tykes to read but to awaken their interest for reading and for liking books to start at their young age.  Banking in the thought from the famous quote of Margaret Fuller, “ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”.

        I gladly joined my staff in distributing 26 volumes of Children’s Big Story Books for the pupils and 2 Teacher’s Guide for 209 Day Care Centers in  180 barangays of Iloilo City under the auspices of the City Social Welfare Development Office.

   

      I even tried storytelling to the kinder pupils who were delighted and amazed every time I turn the page with my loud voice echoing in the four corners of their classroom.

       I can tell that they were more entertained by the colorful pictures than the story itself...

      ...or they can’t help but to admire my story telling prowess.

         
     I am doubly engrossed by the idea that the teachers were genuinely thankful for these books to  serve as an additional lesson devise that would surely hold the attention of these hyperactive children to listen to their stories because of the huge -bright colored pictures printed page by page. 

    
      Now we can say that our children are not only made readers on the laps of their parents...

...but now on the laps of our dedicated teachers whose patients were stretched to the max in dealing with these super active toddlers in school.

      This children's Big Story Books project coincided with one of the city’s LCE’s 10 point Agenda primarily geared to enhance the system of education to start at kindergarten level.

Certificates of appreciation were received by my office from the Day Care Workers of  the 7 districts of the city and from the City Mayor for pioneering this project.
 

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over  the man who can't read.” - Mark Twain