Cordillera Tales (New Day, 1990); 1991 National
Book Award, Philippines

Stories from the northern Cordillera region of the Philippines, retold in a contemporary
idiom and illustrated by the author; based on folkloric and anthropological
research material collected by American and other foreign missionaries in the
Cordilleras, from the early 1900s.

This book received a National Book Award from the Manila
Critics’ Circle in the Philippines and since its publication until the present,
is being used in literature classes in the Philippine educational system and
elsewhere. Individual stories from the volume have also been adapted as short
theatre pieces.