A Beautiful Seed of a Yellow Ripe Mango

About the Book

The story evolves with a playful and conniving joke between siblings (a little mischievous act of unequal sharing of a fruit) during their adolescent years; reflecting strong family ties and captivating the wonderful act of sharing, love and care for each other at the end.

About the Author

Loida enjoys story telling for her grandchildren who are the prime reason and inspiration for her book. This is her first book after her retirement and will be the start of a new venture into writing children’s publications. Her hobbies are gardening, writing, cooking, sketching fashion designs, and coordinating events for her family, especially reunions of high school classmates and friends. She is also an avid fan of the San Francisco Giants. Her writing credits include producing souvenir programs for her class reunions from 1993 to-date and being one of the literary editors of her high school newspaper. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Ad- ministration from the University of the East, Manila, Philippines. She has taken writing courses at Cal State of the East Bay in Hayward, California. Loida and her husband Willie migrated to the United States of America in October 1975, after being granted special immigration visas as employees for the Officer in Charge of Construction, Southwest Pacific Naval Facilities Engineer- ing Command, United States Navy Department, which was based in Makati, Rizal, Philippines. They raised four children and have lived in Hayward, California for 35 years.