Fernandez, Yvette

Nanay Coring: the story of National Book Store's Socorro Ramos / Yvette Fernandez; illustrated by Liza Flores. - Philippines : Dream Big Books, 2012. - 23 pages: color illustration 23 cm.

Socorro Ramos, known as Nanay Coring is the founder of National Book Store, the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines. She has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loves to read and learn. But Nanay Coring was once so poor she could not afford to go to school. She went through many hard times, including the Second Worl War. This is the story of how a young girl with no money learned to work hard, to survive the bad times till they became good again, to live and to love, and to never stop dreaming.


in English

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Fiction--Philippines--Juvenile literature
Short stories

921 F39n 2012