Kamehameha: The Boy Who Became a Warrior King Kamehameha
Click here to go to review by Burl Burlingame, Posted on: December 22, 2003 in the Honolulu Star Bulletin
  • Book Review of Kamehameha -- The Boy Who Became a Warrior King

    Kamehameha -- The Boy Who Became a Warrior King

    by Ellie Crowe, illustrated by Don Robinson (Island Heritage, $15.95)

    These are the lost and mythological years of Kamehameha's life, a combination of Western legend shoe-horned onto Hawaiian oral traditions and a dark tale of political and intrigue.
    To her credit, Crowe steers a course of realism colored by unexpected fate. But the book is really a showpiece for Robinson's brilliant illustrations -- he really has a way with color and texture to provide an emotional effect.

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