Maui-Maui

by Stephen Cosgrove

Book Overview

A whale teaches the Amomonies to respect the balance of nature and take only what they need from the sea. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843138297
• ISBN13: 9780843138290
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

One of our favorites!

I read this to my children many times when they were younger, and it was one of their favorites. The lesson is a valuable one: do not waste our earth's resources! We discussed this many times ... and used it as a reminder to ourselves when we found ourselves being wasteful ("Don't be an Amomalie!"). That was years ago. But this morning, my daughter - who is now fifteen - asked me if I remember the book Maui Maui? Then she told me the story from memory ... and finished with "I loved that book!" Clearly Maui Maui had an impact on her. I am ordering a couple of used ones today to put in my hope chest for "future grandchildren!"

a life-changing book!

Beautifully illustrated and full of wisdom, the book, Maui-Maui, was one of the major influences which caused me to become an environmentalist. I remember when I read it, it wasn't a totally comfortable experience (but then neither was Orwell's brilliant political allegory "Animal Farm"); the "anenomies", who over-fish the ocean in the story, can be seen as a metaphor for humans, and it was an uncomfortable experience for me to identify with these creatures in the story, when I realised that they were causing such destruction. But who ever said learning and developing wisdom were painless? Then again, I also have fond memories of the book - which is why I wrote this review. It's a great book! So if you want to foster an environmental consciousness in a child, I say give them this book! I know I will :)

Maui-Maui

This book teaches you not to over do it. In this book the Amomonies fish more then they should. Then the whale Maui-Maui comes and takes the Queen for a dive and shows her that there no fish left. So to find out if this book teaches them a lesson feed it.