Interview with Ramon C. Sunico on August 7 & 11, 2014 in Mandaluyong City, Philippines

• Main Author: Sabido, Tarie
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss2/18; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1134/viewcontent/PAHA_204.2_2018_20Interview_20__20Sabido.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: Ramon “RayVi” C. Sunico is the author of the picture books Two Friends, One World (1991); Ang Nawawalang Araw (1991); and Ang Inuwi ni Nanay (2003), and the publisher-editor of several picture books and young adult novels, including Tall Story by Candy Gourlay, winner of a 2012 National Children’s Book Award. RayVi is the pioneer of the bilingual text format (English/Tagalog) of Philippine picture books and was part of the group responsible for the modernization of book design and publishing in the Philippines. He was the first to teach a course on children’s literature under the Interdisciplinary Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University. As an editor at Anvil Publishing and a member of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People, RayVi is developing a new line of Philippine children’s and young adult novels.