Sawi, Funny Essays, Stories, and Poems on All Kinds of Heartbreaks
The NBDB Book Club invites heartbreakers and the brokenhearted alike as we read and discuss Sawi, Funny Essays, Stories, and Poems on All Kinds of heartbreaks.
Mend broken hearts with fellow lovesick authors and bookworms on December 13, 4p.m., at Hooked on Books, 138 Ching Santos Bldg., Katipunan Ave., Quezon City.
On 04 January 2009, The Philippine Star came out with a story titled, “CHED to review defective textbooks” and an editorial called “A Long Overdue Review”. It was stated...
Thirty textbooks nominees for 2008 NBDB Quality Seal Awards
In its continuing effort to recognize quality private school
textbooks, the National Book Development Board (NBDB) announced that it
received 30 Mathematics and English textbooks as nominees for the 2008 Quality
Seal Awards (QSA).
In his latest column at the Philippine Star, Isagani R. Cruz describes the National Book Development Board (NBDB) as “one of the most hard-working government agencies.”
Dr. Cruz, a former Education undersecretary and founding chair of the Manila Critics Circle, saw for himself how the agency “works very hard and very efficiently” in the management of the recent National Book Awards, and in the “very visible results of their various projects” as it fulfills its vision to make the Philippines a publishing hub in Asia.
NBDB led the nationwide celebration of the 12th Philippine Book Development Month with innovative events like the Marathon Reading of Noli Me Tangere. The agency provided LRT commuters a taste of Philippine poetry through the “Tulaan sa Tren” project. The Board also continues to urge legislators to pass into law the “National Book Development Trust Fund” to support Filipino authorship nationwide.
Read Pinoy! is this year's Philippine Book Development Month theme
Discover the country’s treasure trove of literary gems as the NBDB fills this November with a long-list of activities that will inspire Filipinos to read more Philippine-authored books in this year’s Read Pinoy!: The 12th Philippine Book Development Month celebration.
The NBDB invites all publishers and authors to participate in different lectures and forums for stakeholders of the book publishing industry. On November 7, the NBDB will hold Textbook R and D, a forum for publishers on how to improve the quality of textbooks that they publish. On November 10, publishers who want to venture into translating new and existing regional works are invited to attend Lost in Translation, where issues on specific language to use and the presence of a bilingual/trilingual market outside NCR will be discussed.
NBDB and MCC announce winners of the 27th National Book Awards
The best published books of 2007 were given special recognition when the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle announced the winners of the 27th National Book Awards last November 15 at the Yuchengco Museum.
The Ateneo de Manila University Press bagged the Publisher of the Year Award. Among the writers who won awards for their books published in the Philippines in 2007 were Senator Edgardo J. Angara, Senator Juan Flavier, Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, Conrad de Quiros, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, and Tony Perez.
This year’s trophies were designed by young sculptor Glenn Cagandahan.
