Honu and Moa

Honu and Moa PDF

Author: Edna C. Moran

Publisher: Beachhouse Pub.

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933067957

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Moa, a loudmouth rooster, challenges Honu, a calm green sea turtle, in a race to determine who owns a clear, cool, Hawaiian spring. The bright Sun awakens them early the following morning, and the race begins. Honu uses her strength and perseverance to push against the strong currents of a stream. Moa wastes time sleeping in and then gets sidetracked as he nears the spring. In the end, steadfast Honu wins and boastful Moa is speechless for once. Honu and Moa is a humorous spin on a well-known story, set in beautiful Hawaii featuring characters whose cultural significance continue to influence the islands

The Sleeping Giant

The Sleeping Giant PDF

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Publisher: Beachhouse Pub.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933067209

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Fed poi by the villagers of Kapa'a, a small, weeping fish grows enormous, then transforms into a giant man, but there is not enough poi on the island to satisfy his true hunger.

Opening the Road

Opening the Road PDF

Author: Keila V. Dawson

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1506468926

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"Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation. In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.

A Song of Frutas

A Song of Frutas PDF

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1534444890

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From Pura Belpré Award–winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a pregonero—a singing street vendor in Cuba—and helping him sell his frutas. When we visit mi abuelo, I help him sell frutas, singing the names of each fruit as we walk, our footsteps like drumbeats, our hands like maracas, shaking… The little girl loves visiting her grandfather in Cuba and singing his special songs to sell all kinds of fruit: mango, limón, naranja, piña, and more! Even when they’re apart, grandfather and granddaughter can share rhymes between their countries like un abrazo—a hug—made of words carried on letters that soar across the distance like songbirds.

Honu

Honu PDF

Author: Marion Coste

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1993-10-01

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780824815073

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Marion Coste describes the life cycle of the Hawaiian green sea turtle--from the emergence of the female from the water to scoop a nest in the sand, to the return of the hatchlings to the sea, to the perils of the feeding grounds, and return to the nesting beaches. The second part of the book provides further scientific information about the habitat, feeding habits, adaptations, and breeding cycle of the green turtle.

Hula Lullaby

Hula Lullaby PDF

Author: Erin Eitter Kono

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2009-02-28

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 0316069604

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Against the backdrop of a beautiful Hawaiian landscape, a young girl cuddles and sleeps in her mother's lap.

Hawaiian Dictionary

Hawaiian Dictionary PDF

Author: Mary Kawena Pukui

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1986-03-01

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780824807030

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For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries to almost 30,000 and making it the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Other additions and changes in this section include: a method of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of Hawaiian words with more than three syllables; indications of parts of speech; current scientific names of plants; use of metric measurements; additional reconstructions; classical origins of loan words; and many added cross-references to enhance understanding of the numerous nuances of Hawaiian words. The English Hawaiian section, a complement and supplement to the Hawaiian English section, contains more than 12,500 entries and can serve as an index to hidden riches in the Hawaiian language. This new edition is more than a dictionary. Containing folklore, poetry, and ethnology, it will benefit Hawaiian studies for years to come.