Readers who are familiar with West Visayan languages and culture will truly enjoy Jonny Pornel’s folk tales of Agurang Onyo and Katagman. These are not the stories with moral lessons often told to young children by mothers or grandmothers, but the fables and parables of clever and sometimes naughty characters whose problems are resolved through guile and an unorthodox manner of thinking. Parnel’s stories are a refreshing reminder of the bounty of centuries of Panayanon literature.