Children's Book Press - Lakas and the Manilatown Fish

Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists.
   Edited by Harriet Rohmer. (Includes art and writing by
   Carl Angel, the illustrator of Lakas and the Manilatown Fish /
   Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown.)
Grandma and Me at the Flea / Los meros meros remateros. Story by
   Juan Felipe Herrera. Illustrations by Anita DeLucio-Brock.

Books About the Filipino Community from Other Publishers
Aruego, Jose, and Ariane Dewey. Rockabye Crocodile: A Folktale
   from the Philippines. Scott Foresman, 1993.
Gilles, Almira Astudillo. Willie Wins. Lee & Low, 2001.
Lucas, Alice (Editor). Mga Kuwentong Bayan: Folk Stories from the
   Philippines. Many Cultures Publ., 1995.
Romulo, Llana Elena, and Joanne de Leon. Filipino Children's
   Favorite Stories. Charles E. Tuttle Co., 2000.

Fish Stories
Lionni, Leo. Swimmy. Knopf, 1992.
Palmer, Helen. A Fish Out of Water.
    Random House, 1961.
Pfister, Marcus. The Rainbow Fish.
   North South Books, 1992.
Troll, Ray. Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from A to Z.
   WestWinds Press, 2002.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). McElligot's Pool.
   Random House, 1947.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel). One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish,
   Blue Fish. Random House, 1960.

NonFiction Books About Fish
Braithwaite, Althea, and Carolyn Rubin. Fish
   (Life Cycle Books). Longman Trade/Caroline House, 1989.
Royston, Angela. Life Cycle of a Salmon.
   Heinemann Library, 2000.
Spilsbury, Louise, Richard Spilsbury, and Mike Unwin.
   The Life Cycle of Fish (From Egg to Adult).
   Heinemann, 2003.

Websites:

Information/Photographs about the History of Filipinos in San Francisco

Tagalog/English Dictionaries

American Family Immigration History Center

The Alvarado Project—an exhibit of photos about the Filipino American community by Filipino American photographer Ricardo O. Alvarado (1914–1976)

The University of Texas website has a large collection of maps of the United States, including California and San Francisco maps and links to other map websites

Information about Fish

Gloria Maciejewski participates in a Children's Book Press program at John Swett Alternative School in San Francisco, CA. Gloria teaches second and third grade at John Swett, a school dedicated to serving its diverse student population by integrating the arts into its academic curriculum.

Please share your own ideas for how to use Lakas and the Manilatown Fish / Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown in the classroom. We'll be pleased to post your work on the website for other teachers to use. Email us your lesson plans at educators@childrensbookpress.org. Children's Book Press is particularly interested in posting activities used successfully in bilingual or primarily Filipino classrooms.