Jay Fowler

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Māui

A story in verse · five chapters · to print at home

How Māui lifted the sky, caught the sun, found fire, fished up the islands, and beat Kuna. I wrote it to read aloud to my son, with a picture for nearly every page. The coloring book has a line drawing of each picture, with the verse it shows underneath.

The pictures are made with AI image generation. Both books print on US Letter paper at actual size.

The cover: Māui lying in the grass under a broad green leafThe coloring book's coverThe opening page of Chapter One, How Māui Lifted the SkyMāui pulling the last rope tight around the sun's legMāui blowing the first ember into a flameA coloring page: Māui and the tied-up sun making a deal

More to read together: The Village Near Mayapan.