Books published by publisher Kamehameha Schools

These legends have been selected with the thought that, in length and content, they are suitable to be told or read to young children as well as to be read by older ones. Some are very old legends, common to many Pacific islands, and others are of recent origin. The menehune were the little people of Hawaiian tales. As they lived in the mountain forests and only came to the lowland at night, they were not often seen. Yet the Hawaiians could describe them. They were 2 or 3 feet tall, the stories said, thickset and hairy. Some of them were never heard to talk while others talked with deep, gruff voices. The Hawaiians said their talk sounded like the low growl of a dog, and their laughter could be heard far away. The mu, a banana-eating people, were a tribe of the menehune.

Readers are taken on a guessing game tour of tidal pool residents, from the clingy 'opihi (a limpet) to the spiky ha'ue'ue (pencil urchin). Written and illustrated by a student of the Kanu o ka 'Aina New Century Public Charter School, the book is the result of an interdisciplinary book-publishing project integrating English Language Arts, Fine Arts, Hawaiian Language, Hawaiian Studies, and Science and Technology. A bilingual "flip" book in English and Hawaiian.