A concertina board book of big bright faces to place around baby on the floor at tummy time—by multi-award-winning author/illustrator Gavin Bishop.
Babies will love tummy time or learning to sit up surrounded by this beautiful two metre fold-out, wordless board book illustrating faces and toys in bright colours.
My First Words about Tikanga Māori is a guide to Māori customs, practices and ways of doing things, and to the special words we use when talking about tikanga. With vibrant illustrations labelled in Māori and English, each page takes readers on a tour of various settings and situations, explaining the words, phrases and concepts we might encounter. Learn all about: pōwhiri, hui, waiata, mihimihi, forms of address, manaaki, aroha, kaitiakitanga and so much more.
‘Haere mai,’ called Nanny Mihi, when we arrived to stay.
‘You are just in time to help me plant the garden.’
The fourth book in the Nanny Mihi series extends the nature connection from 2022’s Nanny Mihi’s Medicine/Ngā Rongoā a Nanny Mihi, with a fully bilingual text about gardening. When her mokopuna arrive for the spring school holidays, Nanny enlists their help to plant her garden. As they return each season, the kids see their labours bear fruit. By winter there is nothing in the garden, but the products of the harvest have gone into a soup that ‘tastes like spring and summer and autumn and winter’.
A heartwarming story originated in te reo Māori by an award-winning Māori-Pasifika author about aroha, whānau, passing down traditional knowledge and welcoming in the new year.
He kairaranga pūhara a Nanny Rina, ka taea te raranga i ngā momo kupenga katoa! Ka pātai ana tana mokopuna, a Haeata te Kapua, mō ngā kupenga ka rarangahia hei pōwhiri i te tau hōu, ka tohua e Nanny me pēhea te whai i ngā whetū o Matariki hei ārahi i tana mahi kupenga. He pūrākau whakamānawa tēnei, mō te aroha, te whānau, me te mātauranga tuku iho hei pōwhiri i te tau hōu.
He pūrākau whakapoapoa i ngā tamariki, tae atu ki ngā tohutohu hanga kupenga!
Written in te reo Māori 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 before a school performance, Rangi has to take her place. How will the other students and audience react – ‘Surely a boy can’t lead the poi?’
As Rangi steps on stage, the familiar movements of poi take him from scared and unsure to standing as his authentic self.
Rere Atu Taku Poi! Let My Poi Fly is Finalist 2024 Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards, Best First Book
