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A delightful, easy introduction to saying how you feel using te reo. Young and old alike will be able to describe whether they are feeling hoha (bored), makariri (cold), matekai (hungry) or simply tinopai rawe (fantastic)! A pronunciation guide in the back of the book gives new learners to te reo a simple guide to the language.

This picture book is about cousins' holidays in a rural Maori community having adventures and fun together - playing in the bush, riding horses, fishing, eeling and swimming at the beach. During the holiday, a death leads to a rahui being placed on the beach. After a year, the rahui is lifted, and they return to the beach full of life and with their cousin in their hearts. The feeling of the book is joyous and wistful, and the illustrations richly evoke the atmosphere of the setting and people.

A bilingual picturebook written by Beatrice Yates (Aunty Bea) with CD narration and waiata by the author, along with Rodger Cunningham and Rehua Mihaka. This book follows on from One Day a Taniwha and Hoha te Taniwha. They are fun and easy to read with superb illustrations by Kat Quin Merewether

Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Children's Book Award: Picture Book 1998.

A delightful story about a picnic day for the grandchildren.

Kiwi kids will love this home-grown version of The Three Little Pigs, where the wolf is substituted for a giant weasel and the houses are made fromferns, paua shells and hangi stones!

A reassuring tale about things that go bump in the night! It's night time and Phoebe needs to go to the toilet. As she ventures down the hall she thinks she is being followed by monsters. But is she?

A Maori language edition of the story about a group of four animal friends who go to the playground to have fun on the swing, the slide, the roundabout and the seesaw. Upon arriving at the swing, they notice an ant sitting on it. 'Shoo, ant!' they say, but Po (the hippo) says no, he was there first and gives him a push. Then all the friends have a turn - but when Po gets on, the swing refuses to budge. Then he gets stuck on the slide, and stops the roundabout. And as for the seesaw ...The other three friends head off home and Po si... read more

Maori language edition of the second book in the Maketu series which focuses on the threatened wildlife of Aotearoa. Mr Tuna is an arrogant slithery eel who presides over the Kaituna River near the Maketu Pie Shop. Whitebait is his favourite kai. He meets up with his old whitebait friends, Whitey, Freddy and Tere, and while he's thinking about succulent morsels inside his puku, they cleverly lure him into a whitebait net. Based carefully on the eel's lifecycle, the story can be enjoyed by itself or used as part of a science program... read more

Tyson doesn't understand why Mum and Poppa would want to go to the Anzac Dawn Parade. Why celebrate anything as stupid as war? But then he hears stories about the soldiers in his family and decides perhaps he should go to the Dawn Parade after all.

When Rua begins kindergarten he is very shy, so the teacher introduces him to a kiwi puppet. Kiwis are also shy, she says, and encourages him to play with the puppet. The next day brings a different puppet, the following day another, and each one gives Rua the courage to participate in the other children's activities. Finally, at the end of the week a new girl starts - and she is very shy. Rua takes her to the puppet box...

Based on the true story of Gavin Bishop's great aunt, Katarina is the fascinating story in Maori of a young Maori woman's life in the early 1860s. It tells of her long and treacherous journey from the Waikato to Otago to join her Scottish husband. This poignant story gives us a very clear insight into Katarina's conflicts between the old Maori ways and the 'new' Pakeha pioneer ways. It is also an amazing snapshot of the times - the land wars between the English and Tainui counter-pointed with the gold rush in Gabriel's Gully, Otago... read more

Meet my family - my mother, my father, my brother and more!

From blisters to blocked noses, Koro seems to have an unappetising remedy for everything. But could his enthusiasm for Maori medicine turn out to be contagious? A children's story and Maori herbal remedies all in one.

Hoha te Taniwha is about a Taniwha who lives in a village on the shores of Lake Rotorua, he can do anything, stand on his head and catch plenty of fish but at night he snores very loudly and is kindly asked to leave the village .Hoha swims across to Mokoia Island and finds a cave, but he also angers the villagers there with his loud snoring and they throw kakahi at him and yell at him to go away. A little boy called Te Rake sneaks out of the village and says he will find a safe warm place for him to stay and he will be his friend. ... read more

Learn to count in te reo Maori. Numbers 1-15. This is more than just a counting book. For ages 1+

Reading age 4 to 6y. Part of a set of eight bilingual board books which privide an exciting and innovative approach to learning and teaching Maori language. The format is simple, reptitive and predictable with some element of challenge. These readers are ideal for those who are at the emergent or early stages of reading or learning Te Reo Maori. The RRP for the set of eight titles is $70.00.

The Maori version is a retelling in the Maori language by award-winning translator, Katerina Mataira. Roadworks is made with machine-mad pre-school boys in mind, though girls will also love the exciting noise-words, rhythms and rhymes. Roadworks aims to differ from other machine books in that it shows an actual project being completed from start to finish, in this case, the building of a road. The format is simple and would lend itself to further books in a series. Ideal for machine-mad kids, Roadworks fills the gap in the market... read more

A bright Maori alphabet book with Maori vocabulary.