Meet author/artist Caren Loebel-Fried who will share her “behind-the-scenes” in the making of her latest book, Finding Home, a Hawaiian Petrel’s Journey. With stories, photos, and art, Caren will take you on a journey through her adventures in ʻUaʻu colonies throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Learn ways that you can help the ʻUaʻu, and get ideas about how to tell your own stories, too!

Caren Loebel-Fried is an award-winning author and artist from Volcano, Hawaiʻi. Caren has written and illustrated nine storybooks to date, including Manu, the Boy Who Loved Birds, A Perfect Day for an Albatross, and Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits. Caren’s love of seabirds is fueled by fieldwork on Midway Atoll with the albatross census team, and research of the ʻUaʻu, the Hawaiian petrel, and other seabirds on their breeding grounds throughout the Hawaiian Islands. With art and stories, Caren aims to bring people closer to the natural world in the hope that they will want to help care for it.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, Kona (F.O.L.K.).

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