I get to work with a lot of kids. Thousands of them...........These days, many have never gone outside in ways that put them face to face with the incredible diversity nature has to offer. Or maybe it is just that so many kids these days don't live in rural places or they only visit sealife parks or zoos and other artifical environemnts? I don't know..........But they can enter a world where Two Kids I created for a series of books help them see and experience worlds of nature in Hawaii and Alaska, our newest states and our most precious natural learning places.
SWIMMING WITH HUMUHUMU is all about two kids from the mainland who visit Kauai with their parents. On every page, Maddie and Cole experience new life forms in a very natural and real life way. Actually, the two kids are my pretend Grandkids and their parents are Scott and Nichol...........
Maddie and Cole write postcards of their experiences to my wife, Brenda......except in the book, they are simply writing to Gramma.........as they learn some Hawaiian, they write to their Tutu, Gramma in Hawaiian.
Little Books within this book help the reader learn more about Monk Seals, Whales, and Sea Shells. Hawaiian words and a bit of culture sneak in too. Illustrated by my friend and the wonderful Hawaiian artist, Tammy Yee, I bet you will love this book if you are new to the islands. I still pick it off my shelf from time to time and use its pages to bring me back to snorkel trips and moments when I first saw an octopus while swimming down at a favorite beach or when, as a family, we first saw humpbacks leaping free of the turquoise ocean..........
SWIMMING WITH HUMUHUMU is all about two kids from the mainland who visit Kauai with their parents. On every page, Maddie and Cole experience new life forms in a very natural and real life way. Actually, the two kids are my pretend Grandkids and their parents are Scott and Nichol...........
Maddie and Cole write postcards of their experiences to my wife, Brenda......except in the book, they are simply writing to Gramma.........as they learn some Hawaiian, they write to their Tutu, Gramma in Hawaiian.
Little Books within this book help the reader learn more about Monk Seals, Whales, and Sea Shells. Hawaiian words and a bit of culture sneak in too. Illustrated by my friend and the wonderful Hawaiian artist, Tammy Yee, I bet you will love this book if you are new to the islands. I still pick it off my shelf from time to time and use its pages to bring me back to snorkel trips and moments when I first saw an octopus while swimming down at a favorite beach or when, as a family, we first saw humpbacks leaping free of the turquoise ocean..........
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