“ONCE upon a December evening,” reads the first line of Yvette Fernandez’s not-quite-new children’s story. 33 years after it was written, the story following a little bear, a wooden boy, golden-haired doll, and a tin soldier, has finally been published.
In 1989, Ms. Fernandez, then a journalism student at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, had an assignment for her English class. “As a journalist, I am used to writing reality and facts,” Ms. Fernandez toldHer siblings suggested that her writing assignment be a story about toys.
Until, that is, a mundane household task turned out to be what some might consider a “Christmas miracle.” “We never had a real title for the book. I think when we first gave it [as a present] way back then it was called,. So, the actual first sentence was ‘Once upon a wintery evening.’ And then, just very recently, when it was on the proofs, we changed ‘wintery’ to ‘December.’ Because ‘wintery’ was so foreign,” Ms. Fernandez said.“For the title, I wanted it to have the idea of Christmas in it.
The net proceeds of the book will go to the Carewell Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides support and education for cancer patients and their families. The organization was established by the author’s late sister, Jessica “Jackie” Fernandez-Suntay, who passed away from cancer in 2005.
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