Synopsis

This award-winning story honors the untiring love a mother has for her family. She works all day: cooks their meals, does the laundry, cleans each nook and cranny. All this work must make her hands as rough as sandpaper! This distresses the little girl in our story who overhears her aunt say that sandpaper hands will make her father leave her mother!

Filipino

Author  

Ma. Corazon Remigio
Si Ompong ay Creative Director ng isang advertising agency.  Naniniwala siya na ang pagsusulat para sa mga bata ang pinakadalisay na uri ng pagsusulat.  Inspirasyon niya ang kaniyang apat na anak.

Illustrator

Beth Parrocha Doctolero
The artist is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines.  A batchmate once told her that if she would like to amount to anything close enough to being an artist, she would have to banish any fear of being one.  No but's, no if's, no excuses, she simply has to thrive on her art.

Mahilig siya sa mga kulay at nasisiyahangan gumawa ng mga aklat pamabata.  Para sa kaniya, bawat librong kaniyang iginuguhit ay isang karanasang dapat kalugdan at ang bawat tauhang kaniyang nililikha ay isang kaibigan.