Chine bLog » childrens book http://www.chineblog.com Messing about in wooden, traditional, and tradition-inspired boats Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Great children’s reading: “The Island-below-the-Star” http://www.chineblog.com/2008/05/great-childrens-reading-the-island-below-the-star/ http://www.chineblog.com/2008/05/great-childrens-reading-the-island-below-the-star/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 01:19:41 +0000 Tim Shaw http://www.chineblog.com/archives/282-guid.html

I recently picked up a great book for my kids: The Island-below-the-Star. It a wonderful story / “myth” about Polynesian discovery of Hawaii in a double-hull canoe and the navigation skills that help the voyage. Worth grabbing for fellow traditional boat lovers with size-small crew floating about.

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