Enchanting Creatures of Hawaii Island by Erzsi Palko

Enchanting Creatures of Hawaiʻi Island takes you and your family on a journey—through hand-drawn coloring pages, fun ecological facts, and whimsical rhymes—meeting native Hawaiian creatures and plants from the island’s volcanic slopes down to the sea. Hawaiʻi Island, aka “the Big Island,” is not only home to active volcanoes, but also to delightful forest bird species found nowhere else on earth—including the ʻōmaʻo, ʻākiapōlāʻau, Hawaiʻi ʻakepa, Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, and ʻalawī. Being the biggest and youngest (and still forming) island of the Hawaiian Island chain, Hawaiʻi Island still has substantial tracts of forest where threatened species once common on all the islands are managing to persist in large enough numbers to actually be seen—including the iconic ʻiʻiwi bird and, ʻio, the Hawaiian hawk. Featured are these unique forest birds, as well as the beloved nēnē goose, giant Hawaiian dragonfly, Hawaiian bat, green sea turtle, dolphins, and many other creatures native to all the Hawai