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Small Holes in the Silence by Patricia Grace
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied- urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers fi ...Show more
Te Kuia me te Pūngawerewere/The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace
$19.98 NZD
$21.00 (4% off)
Who's the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren . . . Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's 1981 classic story The Kuia and the Spider returns in a dual reo Maori and English text, with Hirini Melbourne's original translation. A bilingual Maori and English editi ...Show more
Te Tuna Watakirihi Me Nga Tamariki O Te Tiriti O Toa/Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street by Patricia Grace
$19.98 NZD
Category: Maori
A bilingual Maori-English edition of Patricia Grace and Robin Kahukiwa's classic story of an eel who brings children together to celebrate their diverse cultures, translated into te reo by Hirini Melbourne.He aha nga koha whakahirahira a te tuna korokoro huna kura ma nga tamariki o te Tiriti o Toa?Kei r ...Show more
The Kuia & the Spider by Patricia Grace
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: good-very good
Absorbing New Zealand tale of the Kuia (a grandmother) and the spider. Ideal for reading aloud.
The Sky People by Grace, Patricia
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In this collection of stories, we meet the Sky People - those who are wounded in love or by circumstance and those who are unwanted or dispossessed; the challenge to human dignity and its redemption.
Tu by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street by Patricia Grace
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
This classic Kiwi treasure is the story of a tuna (or eel, in English) who leaves his creek and visits the children of Champion Street. As he visits each one, they pull something out of his mouth: Kelehia gets a kie, Karen gets some shoes, Hirini gets a piu piu, Tuaine gets a pate, Roimata gets a poi, K ...Show more
Whiti Te Ra! (Haka - te reo Maori edition) by Patricia Grace; Kawata Teepa; Andrew Burdan
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
This is the story of the great Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'. Te Rauparaha is pursued across the island by his enemies and he fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kumara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front ...Show more