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Robles, Anthony D.

Lakas and the Manilatown Fish / Si Lakas at ang Isdang Manilatown

32 pp. | Children's | April, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-89239-182-0 $$16.95

(2) K-3 Translated by Eloisa D. de Jesus. Illustrated by Carl Angel. In this bilingual English/Tagalog story, a boy's father takes him to buy a fish in a shop in Manilatown, San Francisco's historic Filipino-American neighborhood. After speaking to the boy, the fish runs off, with the boy, his father, and the fish-store man in hot pursuit. Kids will be captured by the loopy story and the rollicking, high-colored, bang-bang pictures.

Reviewer: | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2003