Friendly Islands
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Stories from the Friendly Islands
A Tongan woman. Tupou Pulu. from the Haapai Group, was respon sible for publishing schoolbooks for the children of her islands while she was in Point Barrow in Alaska. She was assisted in this project by Mary L. Pope who had lived for 10 years in Tonga. They have produced a bilingual book of charming folk tales.
Stories from the Friendly Islands —
Tonga.
The stories in English in the hook are arranged from the simplest to the most structurally complicated. This is because the stories have a place in teaching English as a second language to Tongan students. The Tongan stories are equivalent to the English stories hut they are not a direct translation.
This makes the hook sound rather formidable, hut it is most attractive and the English version, which is all 1 can read, most readable. The il lustrations are very attractive and are
interesting in themselves.
Peter
Livingston
(STORIES FROM THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS - TONGA.
By Tupou L. Pulu and Mary L. Pope. Published by Tofua Press, 10457-F Roselle St, San Diego, California USA 5U53.25.)