Te Kuia me te Pungawerewere/The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Childrens' Books
Who's the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren . . . Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's 1981 classic story The Kuia and the Spider returns in a dual reo Maori and English text, with Hirini Melbourne's original translation. A bilingual Maori and English editi ...Show more
Te Kokorangi ( Te Kо̄kо̄rangi ): Te Aranga o Matariki (The Astromancer: The Rising of Matariki - Te Reo Māori Edition) by Witi Ihimaera, Hēni Jacob; Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
25.00 NZD
Category: Maori Childrens' Books
E kimi ana a Te Kokorangi i etahi pia hou tokowha hei ako i nga korero o Matariki me te maramataka. Kowhiria ana etahi tama tokotoru, me tetahi kotiro, he pani, ko Aria te ingoa. Tohe ana a Aria kia haere ano ko tana kuri haunga i tona taha. Ka ahua hoha a Aria i nga akoranga, kaore hoki ia e pai kia to ...Show more
Rere Atu Taku Poi! - Let My Poi Fly! by Tangaroa Paul; Rebecca Gibbs (Illustrator)
22.99 NZD
Category: Maori Childrens' Books
Written in te reo Maori and translated by the author, Rere Atu Taku Poi! is a beautifully illustrated story about gender fluidity in a school setting. Rangi loves doing haka but performing poi is his favourite - even though his classmates say it's just for girls. When the lead poi performer falls sick ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
35.00 NZD
Category: Maori Culture | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
Nanny Mihi's Medicine / Nga Rongoa a Nanny Mihi by Melanie Drewery
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Childrens' Books
Nanny Mihi's grandchildren excitedly visit her every school holidays. Only this time they arrive with colds ... Nanny takes the kids around her forest and garden, showing them plants that can make them feel better. They find kawakawa and make tea, manuka to put in the bath and clear their stuffy noses, ...Show more
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour by Hona Black
45.00 NZD
Category: Maori Books
Following on from the successful He Iti te Kupu: Māori Metaphors and Similes, Hona Black’s new book explores the rich vein of humour in Māori life. Want to know how to call a silly person a ‘roro hipi / sheep’s brain’, or tell someone to get stuffed in te reo Māori? The answers are all in Te Reo Kapeka ...Show more
Takitimu - A History of Ngati Kahungunu by J. H. Mitchell
85.00 NZD
Category: Maori History
Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people tangata whenua of Hawkes Bay and parts of East Coast and Wairarapa from their origins in the Pacific Islands to their lineage in Aotearoa up to the twentieth century. It is divided int ...Show more