aotearoa classroom stonefish hummingbird

books:

Culture Speaks: Cultural Relationships and Classroom Learning
Russell Bishop, Mere Berryman

Huia Pub., 2007

The Carved Pare: A Maori Mirror of the Universe
David Simmons

Huia Pub., 2001

The pare is an important boundary between the world outside the meeting house and the world inside. It marks a tapu threshold into what is often called te poho, or the body of the ancestor who is the ancestor house, te whare tipuna. For the tribe and their visitors, to enter the house is to go into the body and, symbolically, to change one's state. The pare above the only entrance has an important role to play in that tapu threshold. This ...

The Art of Maori Weaving: The Eternal Thread : Te Aho Mutunga Kore
Miriama Evans, Ranui Ngarimu

Huia Pub., 2005

This stunning book presents a photographic survey that traverses the concepts and values of traditional Maori weaving and innovative, contemporary weaving practice. The evocative photos and text reveal the spiritual significance of weaving within Maori culture. A number of the works in the book are featured in the international touring exhibition of Maori weaving, "Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread."

Stonefish

1 review
Keri Hulme

Huia Pub., 2004

teasing appetites for future stories
OK, I'm the author of this book. I gave it 4 stars because *nothing* I write will ever be perfection. If you're an honest objective fiction writer, the *next* book will always be better, but (unless you're really stupid or sociopathic) no work will ever rate unto perfection. This is a collection of short stories, some published (between 1985 and 1999) and some pristine. There are also poems - ...

Kissing Shadows

1 review
Renee

Huia Pub., 2006

Grabbing family secrets
I loooved this one! I first found a tiny piece of the story in a little booklet at a booksellers and was sold to get the whole book. Don't we all want to have such a friend or a nanny like that? The way the author describes the characters makes you want to be them, eventhough they're not having a real good time, all the time. I was grabbed by the 'pieces of Maori' woven through the story and the ...

Kokopu Dreams

1 review
Chris Baker

Huia Pub., 2000

Armageddon, not just yet
Kokopu Dreams describes a '28 Days Later' kind of story. A virus is on the loose and killed almost all inhabitants of New Zealand, cat, dog, people alike. The survivors now not only have to try and build a new life for themselves in the remains and fight the 'rotten apples' at he same time. Also, they have to fight bad spirits they before only knew from myth. I found it a thrilling story, scary ...

Hummingbird

1 review
James George

Huia Pub., 2006

Tell me your story
The book takes you in and doesn't let you out easily. The characters live in your mind, even when not reading their story. James George tells a tale of completely different lives meeting in an unexpected way. Telling their life stories to each other and you, you get to know all of them intimately. The guy living on the beach in his ship that has never seen water, expelled from his family. And ...