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Island Toes — Tamatama’i Vae o Motu
Island Toes
Tamatama’i Vae o Motu
Christin Lozano
Illustrated by Mariko Merritt
Translated by Suzie-Jo Rasmussen
Toes are toes wherever you go, but toes around the Pacific Islands have even more things in common.
They may be flipper toes or jandal toes, clean toes or highchair toes, snorkel toes or swimming underway toes — all around the Pacific, you know that you have island toes.
This colourfully illustrated book takes young readers on a journey around the South Pacific — no shoes needed!
First published in Hawai’i by Bess Press, Island Toes now reaches the South Pacific in Samoan as well as New Zealand English.
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