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• Titiro Look

  Look

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Board Book. "Look, ask and talk with this book of first words to explore together - family, faces, colours and... tākaro! play!"

• E hoa

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Board Book. "A simple board book in te reo Māori that talks of feelings through a friendship between a child and their dog. Through the up-close expressive faces of a child and their dog, we learn the Māori words for a range of feelings"

• Koro

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Board Book. "Koro is a warm and universal board book in te reo Maori about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple Maori text. The child and their koro explore the day -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mihi

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Board Book. "Mihi is a beautiful baby book that introduces ideas of me and my place in the world in the shape of a simple mihi or pepeha."

• Te waka

  Prior, Jean

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  "Based on the traditional counting rhyme of the animals boarding Noah's ark, this version offers a New Zealand perspective, with some of the native animals of Aotearoa being called aboard the waka, a large Maori canoe."

• Tarakihana Pakupaku

  Cowley, Joy, 1936-

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  "Now that the family farm has been sold, a new owner is needed for this special little tractor which sits at a local car yard gathering dust. Each time the tractor is sold, the owner returns it because it keeps breaking down. Until at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tā pōkiha

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  "The traditional tale of Mr Fox re told in te reo Māori"

• Ngā poaka e toru

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  "Retells the adventures of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortune and how they deal with the big bad wolf."

• Bidibidi

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  "A discontented sheep called Bidibidi begins a journey in search of a new life, but after a series of misadventures from which she is rescued by other animals she decides to go home."

• Pīpī paopao

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  "A retelling of the traditional tale in which Chicken Licken sets off to warn the Queen that the sky is falling in."

• Hinepau

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  "Hinepau is cast out by her tribe because they fear her difference, thinking she is a witch. But she is the one, with her upside down weaving, who is able to heal the land after it is destroyed by volcanic ash."

• Katarina

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Younger Fiction. "Based on the true story of a young Māori woman's life in the early 1860's. Describes Katarina's journey from Waikato to Otago to join her Scottish husband giving an insight into the conflicts between the old Māori ways…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Koinei te whare nā Haki i hanga

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Older Fiction. "Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ko Maui raua ko te atua o te ahi

  he pūrākau Māori

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Pūrākau. "Maui was always playing tricks on people. One night he played a particularly mischievous trick when he was sent to the house of the feared goddess of fire."

• Whakaeke i ngā ngaru

  e whā tino pūrākau

  Bishop, Gavin, 1946-

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  Pūrākau. "A sequel or companion book to Taming the Sun, Gavin Bishop's latest stunning book contains four more Maori myths, including two well-known legends (Maui finds his family and Maui and the goddess of fire) and two less well-known…Read moreRead more of this annotation