{"id":41907,"date":"2024-08-10T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41907"},"modified":"2024-08-10T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:59:33","slug":"review-of-kapaemahu-by-hinaleimoana-wong-kalu-dean-hamer-and-joe-wilson-illustrated-by-daniel-sousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41907","title":{"rendered":"Review of Kapaemahu, by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illustrated by Daniel Sousa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kapaemahu<\/em><\/p>\n

by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson
\nillustrated by Daniel Sousa<\/p>\n

Kokila (Penguin Random House), 2022. 40 pages.
\nReview written October 24, 2022, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

This hauntingly beautiful picture book tells an indigenous story from Hawaii, with text in both Olelo Niihau, the language it may have originally been told in, and English.<\/p>\n

The story tells how long ago four spiritual healers came from Tahiti to Hawaii<\/p>\n

The visitors were tall and deep in voice yet gentle and soft-spoken.<\/p>\n

They were not male;
\nthey were not female.<\/p>\n

They were mahu —
\na mixture of both in mind, heart, and spirit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The four visitors each had a separate special healing gift, and they bequeathed their healing wisdom to the people of Hawaii.<\/p>\n

The people moved four large boulders to the beach as a monument to the healers, and the healers transferred their healing power to the stones to keep it safe for Hawaii before they left.<\/p>\n

As the story finishes up, we learn that the stones were considered sacred for centuries, but as Waikiki got built up, for a time they were buried under a bowling alley.<\/p>\n

The stones have since been recovered. But their history is still being suppressed, and the fact that the healers were mahu has been erased.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But now readers know the story, and we can honor it.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson illustrated by Daniel Sousa Kokila (Penguin Random House), 2022. 40 pages. Review written October 24, 2022, from a library book Starred Review This hauntingly beautiful picture book tells an indigenous story from Hawaii, with text in both Olelo Niihau, the language it may have originally been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-folk-tales","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44158,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41907\/revisions\/44158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}