Everyone will be enchanted by this collection of stories featuring rare, endangered plants and animals from Hawai`i. Each story provides a valuable life lesson. When a hawk moth is lost, her only hope of finding her way home is to learn the language of a palila bird. A koki`o plant must decide whether to encourage his younger brother to bloom in time for the annual blossom festival. And meet a Hawaiian happy face spider who shares the secret of looking at the bright side of things when a terrible storm approaches. Here are ten stories that will entertain and inspire.

"'Finely written and strikingly illustrated in watercolors." -Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Mutual Publishing, 2005
Hardcover, 32 pages, color illustrated
ISBN 1-56647-741-7, $14.95

ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT 2008 Kathleen Wong Bishop