Alaka'i: Traditional Leadership 3to8supp “Pacific Island Legends offers parents

“Pacific Island Legends offers parents and children a chance to bond through shared reading and the discussions that will undoubtedly follow

they will encounter the endangered animals of New Guinea and Northern Australia

readers can be informed about how human impact has influenced the shape of our natural world

and whimsical rhymes—meeting native Hawaiian creatures and plants from the island’s volcanic slopes down to the sea

Alaka'i: Traditional Leadership 3to8supp “Pacific Island Legends offers parentsWhen Kamehameha unified the islands into a single kingdom, an ideal for Native Hawaiian leadership was born. What was leadership like prior to Kamehamehas rise, and why was his feat a defining moment for the culture? In Alakai, Malcolm Nea Chun combines traditions of the early chiefs with the well recorded legacy of Kamehameha to piece together a picture of traditional leadership. Then, bringing this idea forward to the present day, he asks which