My Nature Stories / Aku Paki Taiao
by Yvonne Morrison, Julia Crouth, Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira,
Pānia Papa, Jenny Cooper
It will be a very lucky child who gets this present when I pass it on.
There are six books packaged in this attractive and useful jute kete – three stories each told in both English and Te Reo. Two are by author Yvonne Morrison – Down in the Forest, and Out in the Moana. As well as featuring land and sea dwellers of Aotearoa, they are learning-to-count books – one kiwi and sea lion/kekeno, two ruru and dolphins/popoto, up to ten tuatara and octopus/wheke. In each case the repetitive format of the text highlights a particular attribute of the animal – the weta scratches, huhu squirm, and kea steal!
In addition, the numbers of young sea creatures have been matched with correct information regarding young and parental roles.
In their Te Reo translations – I Roto i te Ngahere nā Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, and I Waho, i te Moana nā Pānia Papa – the same patterning of the text has been followed. Though the rhyming scheme of the English originals isn’t used, the rhythm of the verses is poetic.
The third pair, After Dark /Kia Heke te Pō, are by Julia Crouth and Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, and give more details of the habits of nocturnal forest creatures of Aotearoa – kiwi, weta, Archey’s frog/pepeketua, bat/pekapeka, tuatara, kauri snail/pūpūrangi, ruru, forest gecko/mokomoko ngahere, kākāpō.
The illustrations, repeated in the English and Te Reo versions, are page-sized, detailed, colourful and active. These creatures, whether of the forest or sea, are leaping, hopping, swooping, sliding, singing, fishing, snapping, gripping. Jenny Cooper is the illustrator of two, and Julia Crouth is both author and artist.
What a lovely package these six books in their kete make, and at a price that’s not much more than one of this size, it’s great value!
The publishing team at Scholastic will, rightly, be proud of their work. Ka pai ō mahi.
by Yvonne Morrison, Julia Crouth, Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira,
Pānia Papa, Jenny Cooper
It will be a very lucky child who gets this present when I pass it on.
There are six books packaged in this attractive and useful jute kete – three stories each told in both English and Te Reo. Two are by author Yvonne Morrison – Down in the Forest, and Out in the Moana. As well as featuring land and sea dwellers of Aotearoa, they are learning-to-count books – one kiwi and sea lion/kekeno, two ruru and dolphins/popoto, up to ten tuatara and octopus/wheke. In each case the repetitive format of the text highlights a particular attribute of the animal – the weta scratches, huhu squirm, and kea steal!
In addition, the numbers of young sea creatures have been matched with correct information regarding young and parental roles.
In their Te Reo translations – I Roto i te Ngahere nā Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, and I Waho, i te Moana nā Pānia Papa – the same patterning of the text has been followed. Though the rhyming scheme of the English originals isn’t used, the rhythm of the verses is poetic.
The third pair, After Dark /Kia Heke te Pō, are by Julia Crouth and Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, and give more details of the habits of nocturnal forest creatures of Aotearoa – kiwi, weta, Archey’s frog/pepeketua, bat/pekapeka, tuatara, kauri snail/pūpūrangi, ruru, forest gecko/mokomoko ngahere, kākāpō.
The illustrations, repeated in the English and Te Reo versions, are page-sized, detailed, colourful and active. These creatures, whether of the forest or sea, are leaping, hopping, swooping, sliding, singing, fishing, snapping, gripping. Jenny Cooper is the illustrator of two, and Julia Crouth is both author and artist.
What a lovely package these six books in their kete make, and at a price that’s not much more than one of this size, it’s great value!
The publishing team at Scholastic will, rightly, be proud of their work. Ka pai ō mahi.
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Review by Bronwyn Elsmore
Title: My Nature Stories / Aku Paki Taiao
Authors: Yvonne Morrison, Julia Crouth, Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, Pānia Papa; illustrators: Jenny Cooper, Julia Crouth
Publisher: Scholastic NZ
ISBN: 9781775438649
RRP: $29.99
Available: bookshops
Authors: Yvonne Morrison, Julia Crouth, Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, Pānia Papa; illustrators: Jenny Cooper, Julia Crouth
Publisher: Scholastic NZ
ISBN: 9781775438649
RRP: $29.99
Available: bookshops
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