Ohana Means Family

Loomis takes the cadence and concept of "The House That Jack Built" and makes them her own with a wonderfully rhythmic and evocative story of traditions of Hawaiian food, land, and farming, writing of a sun "that warms the wind on which stories are told / that lifts the rain to the valley fold" and so on. And Kenard Pak's beautiful illustrations of figures in washes of landscape will immediate evoke the island for anyone who has visited Maui, while turning the perspective toward those who have lived there for centuries. (Ages 0 to 5)