arnisador
03-29-2009, 09:18 PM
Author brings Filipino culture to children’s book (http://www.flyergroup.com/local/local_story_086153343.html)
When Mimi Canda Mason reads her book, Lola’s Cane, to local children, it reminds her of her grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
“My experience with my grandmothers is actually combined and put into one story,” she said. “I noticed one thing, they all carried a cane. This one grandmother of mine, I could not forget her cane. The cane is still kept in my family, kept in the Philippines.”
Her story, Lola’s Cane, is about a young Filipino child who loses a grandmother in the story, but keeps her memory alive by keeping the cane with them throughout their life.
Alas, it doesn't sound like grandma used a cane in the sense that we think of a cane!
When Mimi Canda Mason reads her book, Lola’s Cane, to local children, it reminds her of her grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
“My experience with my grandmothers is actually combined and put into one story,” she said. “I noticed one thing, they all carried a cane. This one grandmother of mine, I could not forget her cane. The cane is still kept in my family, kept in the Philippines.”
Her story, Lola’s Cane, is about a young Filipino child who loses a grandmother in the story, but keeps her memory alive by keeping the cane with them throughout their life.
Alas, it doesn't sound like grandma used a cane in the sense that we think of a cane!