What’s in a Name? / He aha tō te Ingoa?
Multicultural picture book with Kiwi Indian main character tells the importance of people's names What’s in a Name? He aha tō te Ingoa Renisa Viraj Maki Illustrated by Isobel Joy Te-Aho White Translated by Hona Black Kiwi-Indian author Renisa Viraj Maki’s newest book tells a gentle and beautiful story about the mana our names carry. In a school that reflects modern, multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand, pupils from diverse cultures have names that might seem difficult to say – a situation that many children encounter. Priyanka definitely is worried when she is tasked with reading out the students’ names at the end-of-year assembly. Wanting to pronounce them correctly, she goes around the school yard to find her classmates and learn about their names.
