The Pōrangi Boy Reina Whaitiri is an exquisitely designed chunky

is an exquisitely designed chunky board book that invites little readers to explore the letters of the alphabet in a whole new way

” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming

emerged in the eighteenth century as one of the great geographical mysteries of mankind

it is also a vital record of what it means to grow up Maori

They also profile some of the men and women who have helped build our knowledge in this area

The Pōrangi Boy Reina Whaitiri is an exquisitely designed chunkyTwelve year old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Nikos grandfather is busy protesting. People call him prangi, crazy, but when he dies, its up to Niko to convince his community that the taniwha is real and stop the prison from being built. With help from his friend Wai, Niko must unite his whnau, honour his