Cover of Tiktik: Field Guide, Volume 1, an illustrated coloring and activity book featuring the tik-tik bird from Filipino folklore
Volume One Coloring & Activity Book Filipino Folklore & Mythology Recommended for ages 8–12

Tiktik: Field Guide, Volume 1

Some creatures announce themselves. The tiktik's call means one is already close.

A coloring and activity book built as a field journal. Four creatures out of real Filipino folklore: the tiktik, whose call carries the warning; the kapre in the balete tree; the tikbalang that turns the road; and the manananggal at the heart of the novel. Full-page scenes to color. Mazes, word searches, and puzzles. A warning sign only you can design — and, at the back, four pages to invent a creature of your own.

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What's inside

  • Full-page scenes to color, one for each of the four creatures
  • Specimen pages with quick-ID field marks, field-journal style
  • Word searches, mazes, word scrambles, spot-the-difference, and seek-and-finds
  • A warning sign only you can design
  • Create Your Own Creature — four pages to name, draw, and file your own
  • Companion to Tiktik: A Summer of Three Names, Book One in the series
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The kapre, a giant tree-dwelling spirit from Filipino folklore known for smoking a large tobacco pipe, illustrated for the Read Tiktik field guide
The Kapre
The tikbalang, a horse-headed trickster spirit from Filipino folklore known for leading travelers in circles through the forest, illustrated for the Read Tiktik field guide
The Tikbalang
The manananggal, a self-segmenting Filipino folklore creature that separates at the torso and grows bat-like wings to fly at night, illustrated for the Read Tiktik field guide
The Manananggal
The tik-tik, a small herald bird from Filipino folklore said to fly ahead of the aswang, illustrated for the Read Tiktik field guide
The Tiktik