This was the concept behind the first Inquirer Read-Along session this year, which featured the comeback of “Batibot”—the Filipino version of the long-running American children’s television series “Sesame Street”—not on TV but on tablets and smartphones.
Your greatest enemy is yourself. This was one of the lessons from one of the stories read to some 40 students at the Inquirer Read-Along at the Philippine Daily Inquirer office in Makati on Saturday morning in time for the Holy Week celebration.
Stories about family togetherness through happy or hard times were the focus of the Inquirer Read-Along special session on Saturday held in celebration of national reading month and as part of the festivities leading up to Inquirer's 33rd anniversary next month.
Stories about change and new beginnings kicked off the first Inquirer Read-Along session for the year. At Saturday’s session, actor and peace ambassador Mikael Daez, returning storyteller Dyali Justo, and child winners of the recently concluded 2nd Inquirer Read-Along Festival Storytelling Competition, Mark Nowel Eleuterio and Laila Rontos, regaled over 60 children with stories about a town that rediscovered laughter, a dragon who learned to accept his different nature, and a grasshopper who changed his naughty ways, among others.
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When you have faith in yourself and in others, great things might just happen.This was one of the lessons picked up by some 100 kids during the morning session of the second day of the Inquirer Read-Along festival on Saturday at the Inquirer main office in Makati.
Stories of courage and strength were featured in the afternoon session of the first day of the Inquirer Read-Along Festival on Friday at the Inquirer main office.
Sophia School high school senior Alexis Papa scanned the class list, and made sure that the pupils were properly lined up before they headed to the school’s covered quadrangle.
More than being courageous, Filipinas should develop mental toughness to endure and prevail trying situations, said actress and comedienne Candy Pangilinan.
It is important to work hard but it is more important to work smart.
