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Children's Book by Nona Beamer Wins National Award
By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 02:06 p.m. HST, Nov 20, 2009
The American Folklore Society has awarded a book by the late Nona Beamer its 2009 Aesop Prize for Children's Folklore.
"Naupaka" tells of a time when romance blossomed between Naupaka, a kind and beautiful Hawaiian princess, and a handsome and gentle commoner called Kaui. It's published by Kamahoi Press, which is part of Bishop Museum Press.
The Bishop Museum today said the Aesop Award Committee praised the book's bilingual storytelling. Caren Keala Loebel-Fried illustrated the story.
"Aunty Nona" was a noted authority on Hawaiian culture and matriarch of the musical Beamer family.
She taught Hawaiian culture at Kamehameha Schools for 40 years. She also took over her mother's hula studio and taught hula in Waikiki for 30 years.
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