There's a Monster in My Opu

There's a Monster in My OpuKaryn Hooper Hardcover, 24 pp. After a boy and his dad arrive at the North Shore for a Saturday morning of surfing, the boy discovers that a noisy monster has joined them! With the help of a lei making auntie and a favorite local treat, the boy makes the monster disappear. Skillful rhyme and colorful illustrations make this a book children and parents will want to read again and again.

floral and balanced Kona coffee beans are unflavored and have tasting notes of jasmine

today's birds and mammals include deer

it includes numerous photographs- many from treasured family albums

who has captured the delight and drama of the ancient tales

It is not as white blossom floral as Pikake or as strong as Kupaloke

and all those seeking to reconnect to their culture

It could catch every fish that there was in the sea

John Mahelona

Moe‘uhane

He moʻolelo ʻo “Nā Hana Kupanaha a ʻĀleka ma ka ʻĀina Kamahaʻo” no ke kau wela i hoʻopuka ʻia e Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) no ka manawa mua ma Iulai o ka 1865

the boy discovers that a noisy monster has joined them

to rising sea levels and acidification that is killing coral