2023 Finalist Te Reo Māori Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award
2023 Finalist Best First Book NZSA Award
Ko te whenua puia tēnei o ngā puke ahi tipua o Tāmaki-makau-rau i mua i te taenga mai o te Pākehā. E noho nei ngā uri a Te Kawenga me Katati, he whenua taurikura, he wā āio. Heoi e oreore mai ana tētahi āhua.
Kua tūpono mōhio ngā kōhine nei, he āhuatanga kua puta i te tojunga mākutu nei a Te Tumu, me tō rāua wehi kei pā he mate ki te hapū, ki te iwi hoki. ko rāua wehi kei pā he mate ki te hapū, ki te iwi hoki. Ko rāua ēnei e haere ake nei me te kaha o ā rāua whakapae, ka whāia te tohunga kia kore ai tana wawata e tutuki.
Ka whai kaha tonu ngā kōhine nei ki te tohe atu ki ō rāua rangatira, te kaupare ake i te parekura e haere ake nei?
Jane Cooper has been a primary school teacher and Paeārahi /Leader of Ngā Uri o Ngā Iwi, Māori Medium Education at Te Rehu, Westmere School. She has taught in rumaki and reorua classes for over twenty years, integrating Māori history and pūrākau stories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland into the curriculum.
nā Story Hemi-Morehouse ngā pikitia
This book is also available as a English-language edition, To Trap a Taniwha.
He Raru ki Tai is an adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland when the hapū of Ngā Oho/Ngā Iwi predominated. Armed with the courage of their convictions, two girls embark on a perilous journey to challenge their leaders’ actions. Cousins, Te Kawenga and Kakati learn of a plan being hatched against a neighbouring iwi and strange activity occurring at a seasonal fishing camp.
A huge trap is being built to snare and kill Ureia, the taniwha of Hauraki iwi. The cousins fear the retribution that will be taken on their people if Ureia is killed. So they take a dangerous journey to defy the decision of their people and try and save the taniwha.
Paperback, 88 pages
H: 210mm W: 138mm