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The River in our Backyard / Te Awa e Pātata Rawa Ana
The River in our Backyard
Te Awa e Pātata Rawa Ana
by Malcolm Paterson
Illustrated by Martin Bailey
You don’t need an overseas trip to encounter centuries of history and unique environments, as the Sharing Our Stories books reveal.
The River in our Backyard /Te Awa e Pātata Rawa Ana is the fourth in the series and the first to be fully bilingual in English and te reo, both written by Malcolm Paterson.
It also includes Tamil language, and publishes just ahead of the Diwali festival.
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Happy 10th Birthday to I Need a New Bum!
I Need a New Bum! — Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird’s zany tale about a boy who discovers his backside has a crack — turns 10 years old today.
Published on 20 September 2012, the picture book was well received locally and shown to the world soon after during New Zealand’s Country of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair…
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The Grandmothers of Pikitea Street / Ngā Kuia o te tiriti o Pikitea
The Grandmothers of Pikitea Street
Ngā Kuia o te Tiriti o Pikitea
By Renisa Viraj Maki, illustrated by Nikki Slade Robinson, translated by Kanapu Rangitauira
Touching story about multiple cultures in New Zealand bonding through food and stories across the generations
‘I hope young readers, and those who read the book with them, connect to this story and see the beauty of our multicultural society,’ says author Renisa Viraj Maki of her debut book.
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Kia Hou Taku Tou! – kua reo Māori a I Need a New Bum!
Kia Hou Taku Tou/I Need a New Bum!
Translated by Stephanie Huriana Fong
Written by Dawn McMillan
Illustrated by Ross Kinnaird
Te reo Māori edition out tomorrow marks tenth-anniversary of global bestseller I Need a New Bum!
It was hearing her own tamariki plead to have Dawn McMillan and Ross Kinnaird’s books in te reo that motivated translator Stephanie Huriana Fong to get to work on the bestselling I Need a New Bum!.
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