Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūleʻa, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance Animals The world has something to

The world has something to learn from it

Author & Illustrator Michael Nordenstrom is Associate Librarian and Volunteer Coordinator at the Salt Lake City Public Library

“Children’s books often don't have many words

courage and humility of her life

Nā Mo‘olelo Hawai‘i o Ka Wā Kahiko: Stories of Old Hawaiʻi includes adaptations of forty-five traditional Hawaiian legends

Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūleʻa, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance Animals The world has something toAttuned to a world of natural signsthe stars, the winds, the curl of ocean swellsPolynesian explorers navigated for thousands of miles without charts or instruments. They sailed against prevailing winds and currents aboard powerful double canoes to settle the vast Pacific Ocean. And they did this when Greek mariners still hugged the coast of an inland sea, and Europe was populated by stone age farmers. Yet by the turn of the twentieth century, this