Book: Hutu and Kawa Find an Island
by Avis Acres
Reed Publishing, 2002, softcover, 32pp

The Hutu and Kawa books are New Zealand classics.  During the 1950s thousands of children enjoyed the adventures of the Pohutukawa Babies in the NZ Herald each week.  The books became bestsellers.

In Hutu and Kawa Find an Island, Hutu and Kawa sail to a lovely island in their canoe, but discover that it is a very unhappy place.  They help to get rid of a dangerous enemy, and finally return home in a most unusual way.

The stories and illustrations in the Hutu and Kawa books are full of the wonder of the New Zealand forest and the birds that inhabit it.  Far ahead of their time, they show a real concern for the preservation of New Zealand's precious wildlife and environment.