Tawhirimatea: A Song for Matariki (Book and CD) by June Pitman-Hayes
$21.99 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
Tawhirimatea, blow winds blow, Ra, warm us up with your sunshine glow. Papatuanuku, we plant seeds in you. Ua, rain, helps new life come through . . . Sing along to this catchy Matariki song celebrating Earth, sky, seasons and whanau. It's our very own Aotearoa, from forest to seashore, dawn light to st ...Show more
Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Te Kai a te Rangatira - Leadership from the Maori World by Rawiri Tapiata (ed.); Renee Smith (ed.); Marcus Akuhata-Brown (ed.)
$79.99 NZD
Category: Maori culture and history | Reading Level: near fine
‘Awe-inspiring collective wisdom and a snapshot into the current state of Maori leadership’ – this extraordinary book of interviews and photographs enriches our understanding of what it means to be a leader. In 2017 a group of rangatahi came together with the kaupapa of making a contribution to their co ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi The treaty of Waitangi 1840 by Claudia Orange
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
Published in conjunction with the He Tohu exhibition at the National Library. Each book celebrates one of the three founding documents in New Zealand's history He Whakaputanga: The Declaration of Independence (1835), the Treaty of Waitangi: Te Tiriti o Waitangi (1840) and the Women's Suffrage Petition ( ...Show more
Te Waiata o Kauri (The Song of Kauri Maori HB) by Melinda Szymanik
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Retold by Ngaere Roberts. cloaked in mist, warmed by the sun and stirred by a whirling wind, Kauri grows tall and wise through passing years and changing times. This is his song.
Tears of Rangi - Experiments Across Worlds by Salmon D Anne
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Six centuries ago Polynesian explorers, who inhabited a cosmos in which islands sailed across the sea and stars across the sky, arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand where they rapidly adapted to new plants, animals, landscapes and climatic conditions. Four centuries later, European explorers arrived with map ...Show more
The Girls in the Kapa Haka by Angie Belcher; Debbie Tipuna
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
New Zealand's favourite story celebrating the Maori performing art of kapa haka is great for the whanau to read together!These are the poi that circled and twirledabove the heads of the singing girlswho wore the piupiu that swished and swirled,made from the flax that Koro cut,that the mussel shell scrap ...Show more
The Great War For New Zealand - Waikato 1800-2000 by Vincent O'Malley
$80.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
A monumental new account of the defining conflict in New Zealand history. It was war in the Waikato in 1863-64 that shaped the nation in all kinds of ways: setting back Maori and Pakeha relations by several generations and allowing the government to begin to assert the kind of real control over the coun ...Show more
The Legend of the Seven Whales / Te Pakiwaitara ō Ngā Tāhora Tokowhitu by Mere Whaanga; Epanaia Whaanga
$17.99 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Reading Level: 8+
An ancient legend of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti, hapu of Ngati Kahungunu, this is the tale of how the islands east of Wairoa came to be. Originally published by Mahia Publishers in 1988 and then by Scholastic NZ Ltd in 1990. Mere made the commitment to her father Te Hore (Horace) Epanaia Whaanga that this st ...Show more
The Marae Visit (Maori/English Bilingual) PB by Rebecca Beyer; Linley Wellington
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
When the class visits the marae they have lots to learn and lots to do. And they have lots of fun! This is a wonderful story about what to expect when visiting a marae.
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
Urban Maori: the Second Great Migration by Haami Bradford
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The post-1945 migration to the cities by Maori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Exploring whatbeing Maori means today, bestselling author Bradford Haami looks back to the experience of the first migrants, and traces the development of an urban Maori identity overthe interceding years. Numerous ...Show more