Oral traditions are recounted in this collection of stories that reveal how those who actively lived Hawaiian culture and kept the spirit of the land alive have enabled native Hawaiians to endure as a unique and dignified people.

"The Rainbow Book" is a children's tale by author M. H Spielmann. Nine year old twins Cyril and Dulcie dash out into the rain one afternoon in search of adventure. They soon come upon a mysterious door that eventually leads them into a Wizard's house. The Wizard gives them some magical bracelets that can transport them anywhere which the naïve children then put on before running off. Their adventures will lead them to seeing the most extraordinary creatures...

Presents advice for a variety of situations, including what to do if the sky falls, the bus doesn't come, the sun never shines again, and there is no happy ending.

"[...]Night's Dream, ' I happened to look up, and saw before me a patch of soft, green grass with the Fairy-ring upon it: whilst I was wondering how it came, my old friends appeared and acted the whole play (I suppose to amuse me). After this they often came, and did the same with the other plays." There! what do you say to that? Do you wonder that the good folk of Blagdon, for example, still point to the hill "where the fairies come to dance," and show you the Fairy-rings, like that which Cedric saw (as is recounted in this book), with the Little People capering about? Of course, the country folk don't laugh at them, because it is all so mysterious, and, as the scientific professors declare, abnormal, if not supernormal; but do you believe for one [...]."