Ang Asul na Kariton

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The blue wooden cart brings luck to two brothers. It becomes their boat when the streets flood. They sometimes hop on it and, like a car, it takes them down the rugged road. The blue cart sometimes feel rickety but they worry not because the brothers know that the blue wooden cart will stay strong for them.

Features:

• For ages 8-9
• Story by Genaro R. Gojo Cruz
• Art by Alma Quinto
• Filipino
• ISBN 978-971-015-005-2

About the Author:

Genaro Gojo Cruz is from San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. He graduated BSE Social Science from the Philippine Normal University(PNU). He has won various awards for his works, including the Palanca Awards, Gawad Ka Amado, Gawad Collantes in Writing poems and Essays, Dionatext (Cellphone Text Poetry Writing Contest), Dalitext (Cellphone Text Poetry Writing Contest), Ninoy Poetry Writing Contest, PBBY-Writers Prize, and Makata of the year 2004. His poems and stories for children have been published in Junior Inquirer Magazine, Liwayway, Pambata Magazine, and various elementary textbooks.

Genaro Cruz is currently teaching in PNU and taking up his MA Major in Philippine Studies as a scholar at the De La Salle University-Manila. If he has free time, he reads stories and teaches street children in Binondo.