FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 BESS PRESS REVISES ITS ILLUSTRATED HAWAIIAN DICTIONARY

The new pocket edition is an ideal resource for beginning speakers and students of the Hawaiian language or anyone interested in Hawaiian language, history, and culture. Illustrated with line drawings, it includes over 5,000 entries in Hawaiian and English, an additional 2,500 synonyms and related words and phrases, grammar notes, and thousands of example sentences in both Hawaiian and English that illustrate practical and cultural uses of the language.

Kahikahealani Wight has a degeree in Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaii at Hilo where she has taught Hawaiian language. She currently teaches beginning-level Hawaiian language at Kapiolani Community College. She is also the author of Learn Hawaiian at Home, a book and CD program useful for classroom instruction as well as individual self-study.

Bess Press, celebrating 26 years of independent publishing is located in Honolulu , Hawai'i and publishes trade titles about Pacific-related topics in the following categories: children's literature, cookbooks, humor, travel, sports, languages, reference books, and guidebooks.

Review copies and digital images are available from Bess Press: info@besspress.com , (808) 734-7159, ext. 21.

ISBN: 1-57306-239-1, 464 pages, $9.95