“Fanny A. Garcia’s work is a major contribution to Philippine writing. It is not only creative writing, it is a humanitarian document as well, being an account of a mother’s efforts to bring up a Special Child cast in the form of a popular ‘scrapbook’ that a creative sensibility has transformed into an absorbing narrative with its own characters vividly drawn from real life.” – Bienvenido Lumbera, PhD, Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication