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"Dear Diary," writes Junior, "Mommy cried because Daddy couldn't be reached . . . Daddy's ship was docked in China." This is one of ten seafarer children's stories that won the 2nd Gig Book Storywriting Contest and is published as part of the Gig Seafarer Children's Stories series. When you read and share this book, you join an ever-expanding circle that gathers round people and things that warm the cockles of our hearts: our children, books and reading, and the strength and resilience of families---especially where the father is mostly away at sea.
"Hello, Tatay!" are words that keep cropping up in a little boy's life at home while his seafarer father is away at sea. This is one of ten seafarer children's stories that won the 2nd Gig Book Storywriting Contest and is published as part of the Gig Seafarer Children's Stories series. When you read and share this book, you join an ever-expanding circle that gathers round people and things that warm the cockles of our hearts: our children, books and reading, and the strength and resilience of families---especially where the father is mostly away at sea.
This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and at different points in time. Although coming from different perspectives like literary criticism, film studies, geography, cultural history, and political science, the contributors collectively argue that Asian otherness is more than the dialectical interplay between the Western self and one of its many others, and more than just the Orientalist discourse writ large. Rather, they demonstrate the ...
"When you are away, Papa, day turns into night." These are a young boy's thoughts as he sees his surroundings change in the absence of his father. "Sometimes, I imagine you on the deck of your ship." This is one of ten seafarer children's stories that won the 2nd Gig Book Storywriting Contest and is published as part of the Gig Seafarer Children's Stories series. When you read and share this book, you join an ever-expanding circle that gathers round people and things that warm the cockles of our hearts: our children, books and reading, and the strength and resilience of families---especially where the father is mostly away at sea.
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"My dad is a seaman," says a young boy, "but we travel the world together." This is one of ten seafarer children's stories that won the 2nd Gig Book Storywriting Contest and is published as part of the Gig Seafarer Children's Stories series. When you read and share this book, you join an ever-expanding circle that gathers round people and things that warm the cockles of our hearts: our children, books and reading, and the strength and resilience of families---especially where the father is mostly away at sea.
This book shows, through painstaking research and documentation of artifacts and practices, how art pervades the everyday life of the people of the Sulu Archipelago, such that no divide exists between beauty and function, between artistry and utility.
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