Edited by: Kel McDonald, Kate Ashwin, and Sloane Long
First line: Family. Always respect them. No matter what.
Why you should read this book: It's a delightful collection of "cautionary fables and fairy tales" appropriate for young readers, collected from the continent of Oceania (mostly Hawaii and the Phillipines). As the series subtitle suggests, these stories offer examples from mythology of what people should and shouldn't do, explaining superstition, ranging far into the past and even into the future to show the consequences of poor actions. There are gods and monsters, princesses and talking animals, everything you would expect from fairy tales, but stories you probably haven't heard before unless you hail from these cultures.
Why you shouldn't read this book: Two of the comics are inexplicably not in English and not translated.
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