Donabel Misagal

Abakada Para Sa Mga Bata

This book is all you need to get your child started with the Filipino language.

Each Abakada letter comes with three words that have English translations, and the illustrations are large and colorful to make learning fun.

The book also includes numbers, colors, and shapes for even more fun and learning!

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HAPPY READERS

REVIEWS

It was great and easy for my 4 years old daughter.

We’ve been trying to teach her basic Tagalog words and this book helped a lot!

Ivy K

Excellent Book

Gifted this book to my goddaughter and she loved it! It has tons of cute illustrations and Filipino words with English translations - a perfect starter for kids to learn the Filipino (Tagalog) language.

Adorable Filipino-English Children’s Book for Kids!

Thank you for this book, my kids will sure love and learn from it. hope you produce also hardcover.

Shessa May

My Son Loves It

The book is well-written and easy to understand. For my kids who are Japanese, it’s like killing two birds with one stone. They can learn 2 languages at the same time. The illustrations are cute and simple too. My kids really enjoy the book.

Skishue

Great starter to learn Tagalog as well as English

Very educational for Filipino kids abroad.
Highly recommended.
A must-have one.

Nelson

Fantastic little book

About the Author

I was born in Leyte, Philippines. At age 25, I left the Philippines for Japan to study the language and stayed there to become a language teacher. I think my love of language learning started there. Studying abroad also allowed me to discover myself while gaining an understanding of a different culture. After several years of living in Japan, I moved to the United States and completed my MBA in 2016.

The idea of writing a book came after the birth of my daughter. Upon scouring the internet, I realized that resources for learning Filipino are rather limited, so I came up with the Abakada Para Sa Mga Bata book to get her started with the Filipino language. Also, I thought it would be great to leave a legacy to her where she can remember me by.

While creating Abakada Para Sa Mga Bata, I used words based on what she sees around her–at home, the playground, the zoo, etc.- and how easily she could pronounce, repeat, and remember them.

What I hope in creating this book and in the coming ones is for kids of Filipino descent to have a great start in learning the Filipino (Tagalog) language.