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Humble Helena Presents the Virtue of Humility is the seventh of eight books in the Rainbow Adventures series by Frances Angelina. Kaimana has struck out during baseball tryouts and is anxious about telling his father the news. Kiamana is surrounded by kindness, compassion, and praying friends and family, but his father brags about past abilities and pushes Kaimana to follow in his footsteps. Kaimana hopes to enter professional surfing but worries he will hurt his father's feelings if he gives up baseball. Kaimana's emotions reach a climax, and his boiling anger causes him to make a choice he may regret. After the story, the author briefly overviews the Virtuepops, highlighting Humble Helena and her lesson with activities, poems, and songs. The author also guides caregivers as they present the material to children, showing strategies for increasing young readers' understanding of it.
Frances Angelina relates a story that could come out of any household and explores the characters' perspectives, reflecting people who are flawed but willing to work on their spiritual and emotional concerns to be better individuals. Humble Helena's lesson teaches children the joy of humility as well as small lessons about colors, shapes, pet care, kindness, responsibility, the "food octagon", and much more. The wording captures the essence of the situation in the story and delivers a few puns. The busy and colorful illustrations display the characters and graphics, detailing particular parts of the story on each page. The narrative embraces Christian concepts, extends important values to children, and details certain aspects of the Hawaiian language and culture. Readers will be delighted as they absorb the value found in Humble Helena Presents the Virtue of Humility.
