2025

Grand Prize
Christina L. Javier

Honorable Mention
Gervin Angelo A. Andres

Based on the story
Three Thimbles
by Patricia Sy Gomez

PBBY-Alcala Prize: Christina “Tin” Javier

To be awarded at the 41st National Children’s Book Day celebration on July 15, 2025.

The PBBY awards this year’s PBBY-Alcala Grand Prize to Christina “Tin” Javier, a paper collage and digital artist from Cavite. Javier’s illustrations are based on this year’s PBBY-Salanga Grand Prize winner, Three Thimbles by Patricia Marie Grace S. Gomez.

Javier has been fusing her art with her advocacies for climate change, Filipino culture and heritage, and social awareness of indigenous peoples. Among the books she has illustrated are Pamilya Papel, Planting Trees of Hope, and several titles featuring Filipino culture and folklore, such as Once Upon the Sun and Sea and the Juan Pusong series. In 2021, she was awarded the PBBY-Alcala Grand Prize and was featured in the Children's Spectator Exhibit at the 2022 Bologna Children's Book Fair. She is a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK).