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Surf Gecko to the Rescue!

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The Gecko is considered good luck in Hawaii. This children's tale follow's up on the author's previous The Legend of the Laughing Gecko: a Hawaiian Fantasy, in which the Gecko character has various misadventures with other native Hawaiian animal life, such as the Nene Goose, and Black Bufo. The Gecko's crazy laugh gets him in hot water and then gets him out of trouble with Black Bufo (Bufo being the genus for toad, so you can guess what kind of animal it is). In this story, Gecko gets into further hot water, so to speak, but he surfs his way to the rescue and comes through in the end. By the way, the gecko, which is a lizard common in southeast Asian and the Pacific, gets its name from the fact that its call sounds just like "gecko."

I got this book for my son who loves Moki the Gecko, but he read it and said it was mostly about keeping beaches clean, and not so much about Moki. He was disappointed in the book, but said he wanted to keep the book anyway, just to complete his collection of Moki books. Had I read the book before ordering, I probably wouldn't of bought it. Granted we should keep the earth clean, but everywhere you go, they shove it in your face. Let kids enjoy a book without being hounded on keeping something clean!