Meet the creatures behind the story
Meet the creatures of Filipino folklore, discover how their stories change across generations, and see what they become inside the world of Tiktik.
A coloring and activity book built as a field journal — scenes to color, puzzles to solve, and a creature of your own to invent.
A free classroom guide for grades 5–8, with comprehension, theme, character, and writing prompts.
Four interior plates, black and white first — the way they print in paperback — then in color.
Not a werewolf — there are no wolves here. Its real name has a better story than the monster does.
Splits at the torso and flies at night — but the story in Book One is about the line she won't cross.
It leads travelers in circles — then tells a better version of the walk afterward.
A small, plain bird. The scary part isn't the bird — it's what it means when you stop hearing it.
No single version of the Kapre is the real one — name, tree, size, even the cigar all change by region.
Or start with the story itself — read Chapter One free →