Imagine a travel book for children, about the Philippines. What would you like to see in it?

Question

It should be adventurous of course. :)

Answer 1

A tarsier, the Rice Terraces, colorful jeepneys, masks from Bacolod and sapin-sapin! :)

Answer 2

Well looking at children they like to see, wild, outlandish things, things they would have questions for. So things that are only unique to the philippines for one, then add lots of color,and don't forget food and you have a sure fire hit!

Answer 3

one that features all the animals that can only be seen here in the Philippines, all the things that originated here in the Philippines like jeepneys, bahay kubo and of course the places like bohol,palawan,banawe rice terraces, mt.mayon, etc.

the lifestyle should be very much like ours. the setting is in a farm, characters would be a whole family and the plot would be all about a child's dream to finish school. a simple one would do..

Answer 4

When I was little and travelled with my family in PI. I loved my grandfather's travel journal. It's like a travel book. he illustrated the islands and sketched each village we had relatives in. Each village had notes about the traditions and more notes about the legends and folklore. My Grandpa was a field scholar for the university. So it was fun.

Translated to a childrens book. I want to make one for my kids so they know the old legends and oral history of those old villages. Kids love that stuff, but they also learn from it. I loved, as most pinoys do, our strong history, and folklore.

I wouldn't add the lists of plants and the remedies they are used for, that was for the scholars, but I loved the way he sketched it. I loved how it had the paths of pilgrimages, and informations from the locals. I liked how he slipped in where all the great fishing spots were and surf beaches. In a childrens travel books they like those kids of things. My kids love them, so did there class when we left san diego and went to Cebu, and then trecked to other relatives in Luzon. The format I found the kids respond most to wasn't adventure nor was it fantasy. It was history... for each village spend time taking about the contributions and events from those areas. The kids (even the non-pinoy) loved reading about the things pepole did, and how it affects us today. They loved the legends and foklore. I had them hike in the forest to spot the philippine eagles. Kids like those things. They want to feel they are there, they want to feel helpful. And interactive book is good sometimes for travelbooks. I liked adding things like "in so-and-so vilage, find this place/artifact/thing, and tell something interesting about it.) travel books should be a learning tool. If they wanted to only know the demographics, and map of an area you'd just hand them a map. That's not good for travel books. Of course for a kids book, you'd have to include baybayin, since we want our youth to know where they came from and not completely lose our past. For older children, I wouild add traditional things like herbal remedies, recipes for that region, and customs... My kids loved the customs, and the older kids loved the recipes since there folks kept borrowing there books to steal my family recipes. Add quotes and trivia...I got good responses from the kids, you may also. They really loved the trivia and even surprised there family who thought I was misleading them until they went and found out it was all facts. (US schools seemed to hide aspects of pinoy history from what they teach our kids in the states, but my family lived in PI we kow our history and want our youth to not forget things and be mislead by lack of information of who they are and where they come from). They loved the painting and sketches... mainly i loved hearing the stories from the elders about how the villages were back in the days. My Lola, and a great-great ninong used to talk to us as kids about what it was like back in the 1890's -1930's pre-US... They told us about how dancing was banned and were, they showed us where they hid when the japanese came, they told tales of how they had to march and were taken from home and put in camps, and had there teeth pulled as a form of ID. The villagers talked about how they trained the US and Austrailians how to fight with sticks, and in the jungles, the used to walk us through to where our ancestors were buried. Those things are what stand out in a childrens travel book. you didn't specify the age range so I covered things for children ages 5yr - 17yrs.