Magical Margaret Mahy by Betty Gilderdale
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known writer for children and during her lifetime she wrote more than 200 books. She won some of the world's most prestigious writing awards, including the Carnegie medal and the Hans Christian Anderson awar ...Show more
Maori Carving - The Art of Recording Maori History by Malcolm Mulholland; Robyn Bargh
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This photograph-rich book shows and describes the process of carving, covering the types of materials and tools used, the carving strokes and surface patterns and different regional styles. It shows the range of items carved from meeting houses to musical instruments, waka or canoes, storehouses, weapon ...Show more
Maori Colours (Magnetic Learning Resources)
$5.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Magnetic Learning Resources
Learn your colours in Maori with these magnetics.
Maori Weaving: The Art of Creating Maori Textiles by Brian James Bargh, Cherie Taylor and Vanessa Bidois
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Since the ancestors arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand and discovered the useful properties of harakeke (New Zealand flax), Māori have used flax leaves to create baskets, mats, housing materials, clothing, ropes and fishing nets. In weaving and the patterns used, Māori record histories and stories, passin ...Show more
Marae: The Heart of Maori Culture by Brian James Bargh and Malcolm Mulholland
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This book is a comprehensive, concise guide to the marae, including the space and how it is arranged, the buildings on a marae, the functions of and gatherings held at marae, and the cultural understandings and values underpinning marae custom and protocol.
Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networ ...Show more
Market Day: A Story from the Islands of Samoa (Children of the Pacific) by Jill MacGregor
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: Children of the Pacific
Hope, who lives in the village of Moamoa, near Apia, describes how she helps her mother sell fruit in the the market. Includes some Samoan words, a glossary and a recipe for fa'ausi esi.
Matariki: The Star of the Year by Rangi Matamua
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradition has been re-established, and its regeneration coincides with a growing interest in Māori astronomy. ...Show more
Mind That Child: A Medical Memoir by Simon Rowley
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Leading paediatrician Dr Simon Rowley has committed almost all of his working life to the care and wellbeing of children. In Mind That Child, Rowley provides a rare glimpse into what it means to be entrusted with the most precious of responsibilities - a young human life. Charting his decades of medical ...Show more
Mokorua: Nga korero mo toku moko kauae - My story of moko kauae by Ariana Tikao
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
One woman’s journey to her moko kauae as an expression of her Kāi Tahu identity. I kā rā o mua, I would know my place in my tīpuna’s time, I would know my face. Mokorua is a revealing and emotional account of one woman receiving her moko kauae. Ariana Tikao grew up in suburban Christchurch in the 1970s ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
Follows on from Mophead; Winner of the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction, and Supreme Winner at the 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. An inspirational graphic memoir written and illustrated by fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. The journey of Mophead continues! Our ...Show more
Motiti Blue and the Oil Spill: A Story From the Rena Disaster by Debbie McCauley
$28.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
This bilingual children's picture book tells the story of a little blue penguin who was rescued and treated at the Te Maunga Oiled Wildlife Response Centre before being released back into the wild.