2020

Grand Prize
Victoria Melissa R. Tadiar

Based on the story
Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo
by Boon Kristoffer Lauw

PBBY-Alcala Prize: Victoria Melissa R. Tadiar

Awarded at the 37th National Children’s Book Day celebration on July 21, 2020.

Ms. Tadiar won the grand prize for her bold and vibrant illustrations based on Boon Kristoffer Lauw’s chapter book, Team Abangers at ang Estilong Trumpo which was awarded the 2020 Salanga Prize.

Tadiar is a full-time IT professional who works on comics and illustrations in her free time. She won the Komiket Best Komiks Award in 2017 for her Filipiniana fantasy comic SAGALA, which was released as a self-published graphic novel in 2019. Her current project, Twinkle, Twinkle, is an Official Selection finalist at the First Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF). She is also a new member of Ang INK (Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan), the only professional organization of children’s illustrators in the Philippines.