Pidgin to Da Max

Pidgin to Da Max (full title: Peppo's Pidgin to Da Max) is a humorous illustrated dictionary of Hawaiian Pidgin words and phrases, published in December 1981, by Douglas Simonson, Pat Sasaki, and Ken Sakata.

[1] With the definitions of most of the words and phrases also given in Pidgin, the book is not clearly intended to be used as a Pidgin-English dictionary, although a reader unfamiliar with the dialect would likely understand most of the entries from context and the illustrations.

Rather, the book is intended to be a humorous introspective for Hawaii residents about the language many of them speak on a day-to-day basis.

[2] As such, it is a relatively popular book in Hawaii, and sold 25,000 copies in its first month in print.

[3] There is an additional volume, titled Pidgin to Da Max: Hana Hou, which follows the first book.