WINNER, Te Kura Pounamu Award, New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2016
IBBY Honour List, 2018
He rua pōuri te wāhi huna o te rangatira. He noho mataara, he whakarongo ki te haruru o ngā tapuwae o te hoariri. Āe, kāo rānei, ka ronga anō ia i ngā hihi o te rā.
Mai i ēnei kōrero, i tito ai te rangatira i tōna haka, i a 'Ka Mate', he haka tuku iho mai i tēnā reanga ki tēnā reanga, ka mutu, he haka e mōhio whānuitia ana puta noa i te ao.
This is the Te reo Māori edition of Haka by Patricia Grace, translated by Kawata Teepa
This is the story of the great Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'. Te Rauparaha is pursued by his enemies, and he fears for his life.
At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kūmara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front of its entrance. As he hears his enemies approaching, Te Rauparaha whispers in the dark, ‘Will I die?’ Will I live?’. His enemies cannot find him, and he climbs back to the sunlight. As he recounts this adventure to his people, his words are repeated and the haka rings out, to be passed down from generation to generation.
This children's book tells the story behind the haka that is recognised the world over through New Zealand teams performing it at national and international sporting events.
Patricia Grace (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Ātiawa) is the author of many well-loved and award-winning novels, short stories and children’s books. She has won numerous awards including the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction for her book Dogside Story, the Nielsen Bookdata New Zealand Bookseller’s Choice Award for Tū, and was the 2008 laureate of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She has also been long-listed for the Booker Prize.
Patricia received a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature in 2007 and was the Honoured New Zealand Writer at Auckland Writer’s Festival in 2014.
32 pages, Paperback
H: 270mm W: 210mm