Te Hiakai Tangata: The Taniwha of Tuarā-Rangaia by Hirini Moko Mead
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
This is a story of a taniwha that lives beside a track between villages and menaces travellers and the surrounding iwi. When a chief’s son is taken by the taniwha, Te Hiakai, the people devise many plans to trap and kill the taniwha, but each time Te Hiakai outwits them. In the end, Pōhutukawa, a chief’ ...Show more
Maui and Other Maori Legends: 8 Classic Tales of Aotearoa by Peter Gossage
40.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
A beautiful collection of artist Peter Gossage's beloved Maori myths, in one stunning volume. Peter Gossage's memorable retellings of Maori oral myths have captivated the children of New Zealand for generations. Their dramatic and distinctive illustrations with minimal yet evocative language form a powe ...Show more
How Maui Defied the Goddess of Death by Peter Gossage
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Maui wonders what it would be like to live forever. He enters the Goddess of Death and discovers stars, heavens and the gods. Missing his people, he is sent home by the highest god, Rehua, who gives him the special gift of being able to transform himself.
Ngake me Whataitai ( Whātaitai ) by Ben Ngaia & Laya Mutton-Rogers
20.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
This is a traditional story told in te reo Māori from the perspective of the Kāhui Maunga people about Ngake and Whātaitai. These two taniwha inhabited Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington Harbour, long before the ancestral migrations. The story tells how the shape and landscape of Wellington, its harbour a ...Show more
Tawhaki: The Deeds of a Demigod (Tāwhaki) by Hirini Moko Mead
25.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Tāwhaki: The Deeds of a Demigod recalls the miraculous life of Tāwhaki. Similar to Māui, Tāwhaki was a demigod who possessed mighty powers. Tāwhaki almost died at the hands of his brothers-in-law but was found by his wife Hine-piripiri and revived. This near-death experience revealed Tāwhaki’s status as ...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: Te Reo Maori Language
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
How Maui Slowed the Sun (magnetic story)
38.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Fed up with short days, Māui decides to teach the sun a lesson, and with his doubtful brothers in tow he sets his death defying plans into motion. Each image is printed on card and laminated with a small magnet on the back. Each legend comes in a flax kete to keep everything together easily. Illustr ...Show more
The Search for Maui (#1 This Land) by Mark Abnett
25.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
A brand-new graphic novel series arising out of Aotearoa, with familiar yet other-worldly characters, settings and themes. The Earth shook and twisted. New lands arose, the old were destroyed and a deadly fever raged. From the ashes, a new continent is born in the Pacific Ocean. TE RIU-A-MAUI ... In the ...Show more
Maui me te Ahi a Mahuika (#3 Purakau o Aotearoa) by Donovan Bixley; Darryn Joseph; Keri Opai
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Pūrākau o Aotearoa
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Maui captured the secret of fire. The traditional tale but with Donovan's unique twist and trademark humour. The pictures are bright and bring their own level of humour to the book. Darryn Joseph and Keri Opai ensure that the story is accurate and culturally appr ...Show more
Te Huihui o Matariki (The Seven Stars of Matariki Te Reo Maori Edition) by Toni Rolleston-Cummins
18.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
An adventurous young man called Mitai lives with his seven handsome brothers in the village of Maketu. He watches his brothers become bewitched by seven beautiful women, and under their spell, the brothers no longer eat, look after themselves, work in their gardens or hunt. Realising the women are patup ...Show more
How Maui Found His Mother by Peter Gossage
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Peter Gossage's vibrantly illustrated retelling of the tale of Maui's search for his mother. After being cast into the sea as a baby, Maui grows up being educated by Tama, his uncle, about the Maori gods, nature and the ways of mastering magic. As he gets older he begins to wonder who is mother is and o ...Show more
Rona and the Moon by Peter Gossage
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Rona is charged with the important task of making food ready for her family when they return from a fishing trip. As night falls, she uses the moon to light her way. But when the moon slides behind a cloud she becomes angry and a curse sprays from her mouth. The moon does not take her curse lightly ... ...Show more