Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People

Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People***Available for Special Order. In the middle of the great Pacific Ocean is a little island. Her name is Kanaloa Kaho'olawe. Discover the story of an island sacred to Native Hawaiians. Beginning with her birth in a volcanic eruption, Kaho'olawe thrives surrounded by animals on land and in the sea. When Polynesian voyagers arrive and begin to raise their families there, the island is happy. As the years pass, invasive goats devastate the ecosystem, and

until his new friends help him find just the right accommodations

This truly beautiful and wonderfully illustrated book introduces children to the magic of nature

Discover how we're made of stars

page after page bursts with luminous detail and joy

She worked at her town library as a teenager and was an editor for a New York publisher as an adult

It sits and shines behind your head--like a crown

fast-paced fantasy with a beautifully rendered world that seethes with intrigue

especially since their parents are always traveling for work

friends pack the house

recent scientific discoveries

and illustrated with vivid

And in return