features languages and children’s artwork from the US-affiliated Pacific
Despite the fact that early foreign accounts record the good health of the native population and the state of Hawai‘i is called the “healthy state
including the Governor's Award in the Visual Arts
” The Musubi Man is the Hawaiʻi version of the familiar Gingerbread Man story retold in local style
In Marshall Island Legends and Stories
Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions back in stock features languages and children’s artworkOnce in Old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible, supernatural kupua roamed the islands, challenging kings and chiefs, tricking men, women, and boys. The Hawaiian people would tell and retell tales of kupua exploits, and of the men who challenged them. Some of the tall tales included in this volume are of shape shifters like Shark Man of Ewa, who could change from man to shark, from shark to rat, from rat to a bunch of bananas. Others are of