How Māui found the secret of fire / Peter Gossage.

By:

Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016 [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2005.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cmISBN:

9781869485757
1869485750 (paperback)
9780143505648 (paperback)

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Summary: On a mission to discover how fire is made, Māui visits his Aunty Mahuika. Each time he is given a flame he tells her he has lost it, until he eventually has lost all but one of her flames. In a rage she flings her last flame into a kaikomako tree. Māui takes a piece of hard mahoe wood and rubs it against a branch of the tree, bringing fire for eternity to his people. Suggested level: junior, primary.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Māoritanga	Pātea LibraryPlus Children's	Māoritanga	GOSS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		I2073629

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Originally published: Lansdowne-Rigby, 1984.

On a mission to discover how fire is made, Māui visits his Aunty Mahuika. Each time he is given a flame he tells her he has lost it, until he eventually has lost all but one of her flames. In a rage she flings her last flame into a kaikomako tree. Māui takes a piece of hard mahoe wood and rubs it against a branch of the tree, bringing fire for eternity to his people. Suggested level: junior, primary.

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