Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Long ocean journeys have always fascinated me, traveling by stars, wide open spaces, the drama between calm and turbulent. This is an illustration I did for Twinkle, Twinkle Small Hoku published by Beachhouse Publishing LLC.
You might be interested to know, that even for a small board book, I invest a lot of time in research. For this book, about a boy traveling by outrigger canoe, I read a lot about the Polynesian Voyaging Society, one of whose founders, Herb Kane influenced Nainoa Thompson, the captain of the double hulled canoe, Hōkūleʻa.
Captained by Thompson, Hōkūleʻa is about to embark on a 43,000 mile journey! As for me, I’ll be on my small island in the PNW looking up at the skies at all those twinkling stars.