Comes with stuffed Kalapana kitty.

A true story, this book can help young children who are grieving over the death of a belovedpet. The story takes place on the Big Island of Hawaii, where change is a way of life....each day Pele give and she takes away. Kalapana is the touching story of a cat named Kalapana who is injured during one of Pele's volcanic eruptions at Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. A young girl named Pua finds him and lovingly and tenderly helps him on the road to recovery. When Kalapana eventually dies, something very special happens. ...something that reminds us that life is a circle, without beginning or end.