Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards 2011 – Honorable Mentions

Here are the Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award Honorable Mentions, recognizing Hawaii’s best books published in 2011:

Excellence in Children’s Hawaiian Culture
Kohala Kuamoʻo: Naeʻole’s Race to Save a King by Kekauleleanaeʻole Kawaiʻaeʻa, illus. by Aaron Kawaiʻaeʻa, moʻolelo by Luana and Walter Kawaiʻaeʻa (Kamehameha Publishing)

Excellence in Children’s Illustrative/Photographic Books
Plenty Saimin by Feng Feng Hutchins, illus. by Adriano F. Abatayo III (Island Paradise Publishing)

Excellence in Children’s Literature
Kohala Kuamoʻo: Naeʻole’s Race to Save a King by Kekauleleanaeʻole Kawaiʻaeʻa, illus. by Aaron Kawaiʻaeʻa, moʻolelo by Luana and Walter Kawaiʻaeʻa (Kamehameha Publishing)

Excellence in Hawaiian Culture
A Pocket Guide to the Battle of Nuʻuanu 1795: An Illustrated Pocket Guide to the Oʻahu Battlefield by Neil Bernard Dukas (Mutual Publishing)

Excellence in Literature
Tweakerville: Life and Death in Hawaiʻi’s Ice World by Alexei Melnick (Mutual Publishing)

Excellence in Illustrative or Photographic Books
Akule photographs by Wayne Levin, essays by Thomas Farber and Frank Stewart (Editions Limited)

Excellence in Natural Science
Hawaiian Birds of the Sea: Nā Manu Kai by Robert J. Shallenberger (University of Hawaiʻi Press)

Excellence in Text or Reference Books
Asian Supernatural by Alex Paman (Mutual Publishing)
Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaiʻi, Second Edition by David L. Callies (University of Hawaiʻi Press)

Excellence in Cookbooks
What Maui Likes to Eat by Chef Tylun Pang (Mutual Publishing)

Excellence in Special Interest Books
Ancient Sites of Oʻahu: A Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Places of Interest, Revised Edition by Van James (Bishop Museum Press)

Excellence in Nonfiction
The Value of Hawaiʻi: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future edited by Craig Howes and Jon Osorio (University of Hawaiʻi Press)

Excellence in Design
The Blue Tomato: The Inspirations Behind the Cuisine of Alan Wong by Alan Wong with Arnold Hiura, photography by David Murphey, Yasuo Kondo and Alan Wong (Watermark Publishing)

Excellence in “Aloha from beyond the Sea Samuel M. Kamakau”
Captain Cooked: Hawaiian Mystery of Romance, Revenge and Recipes! by S.P. Grogan (Addison & Highsmith)