Sugilanon is the old forms of storytelling in the islands of Ticao and Visayan regions. Often, these stories are told to children as way to teach lessons and discipline them. But what happens if you recall it as an adult and write it with no specific audience in your mind, and that you are writing in a language like English. This and many more makes Valiente's slim volume worth reading. Interestingly classified as children's literature, the stories of Tito Genova Valiente locates enchantment in the experience of the ordinary of eavesdropping something that we can all relate as a wide-eyed child or as a restless and jaded adult. What this collection achieves is the power of the stories to be remembered because it has been listened well, ingrained in one's bodily experience as a sweet hum akin to the voice of a grandmother who sings to her rice as she prepares with tender devotion an afternoon feast. Nominated in the National Book Awards for Best Fiction in English, the collection gather stories that are all set in the island of Ticao, the author's birthplace. What this collection achieves is that it makes the writing of fiction whether for children or for adults, as an ethnographic act, hence, one must be able to listen very well to its many forms of enchantment something that Valiente relives in this slim volume.