Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen.
When Marnya immigrates to New Zealand from South Africa in 1953 with her mother and sister, her mother cuts off Marnya's hair and changes her name to George to hide her identity as a girl.
To Trap a Taniwha and He Raru ki Tai is an adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tamaki Makaurau Auckland when the hapu of Nga Oho/Nga Iwi predominated.
An amazing building rises on the edge of town - it's the dream factory. Every night, it sends out magical mist. Flying cars, flower cakes and talking tigers fill people's dreams. And... Læs mere
First awarded in 1933, the Ahuwhenua Trophy was introduced by Sir Apirana Ngataand Lord Bledisloe to encourage skill and proficiency in Maori farming. Since then, the competition has grown to become a large, prestigious and keenly contested event.
This is a history of St Joseph’s Maori Girls’ College, which has become the second oldest Maori boarding school and was started by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions in 1867. The college has given rise to numerous Maori trailblazers in a variety of fields.
It's national kapa haka competition time again, and this Maori performing arts festival is a big event! It needs planning, tactics and dedication - and that's just for the people watching!
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers.
In this picture book, children at school enjoy singing when their teacher, Nanny Hineari, plays an autoharp. But, one day, the harp goes missing. The children and Nanny go on adventures to search for the harp, but it seems lost.