Ben, Under Maui Skies, voted Top Books of the Year
Under Maui Skies, a book of short stories by Wayne Moniz, won the hearts, minds and votes of more than 1500 HawaiiReaders.com readers as the readers' choice book of 2009. The award was given as part of the Ka Palapala Po'okela awards at a gala event on April 30. Ben: A Memoir, from Street Kid to Governor by Benjamin J. Cayetano received the prestigious Samuel Kamakau award as best book from the members of the Hawai'i Book Publisher's Association. More about the awards.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Aloha HR.com readers:
To avoid possible confusion, this voting process is totally different from the Samuel M. Kamakau Award for the Hawai`i Best Book of the Year, which is the top award of the annual Ka Palapala Po`okela book awards. The prestigious Kamakau Award recipient is selected from those titles receiving the most nominations from the Hawai`i Book Academy judges, with final voting by members of Hawai`i Book Publishers Association.
Do support your favorite book/author by voting for this HawaiiReaders.com award!
March 22nd, 2010 at 6:20 pm
New Friend For Naia is my vote
March 24th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
New Friend for Naia is a keeper! I got it for my newborn niece and look forward to working on her Hawaiian vocabulary from the start. Sweet story and lovely illustrations.
March 25th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
New Friend for Nia is a wonderful story with brilliant illustrations. I have been an educator for 20 years, and this book has so many great lessons!
March 27th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Gee, hope you folks don't think you're voting by commenting here. I mean, no harm, but at the end of the post where it says "Vote here now", there's a link that takes you to surveymonkey. That's where you actually cast a vote that counts... It's hard to know that unless you wave your mouse over those words. (Maybe this blog's admin could change the post wording.)
March 27th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Thanks PageTurner. 1000 folks have figured out how to vote so it's working out fine.