Nau mai haere mai ki te marae - welcome to our marae, welcome to our culture
How often has a teacher said “Where is a good book about marae visits? Our school has one coming up next month!”
Well this is the book.
Written and illustrated by Warren Pohatu, the first part of the book goes through a powhiri from the start to the finish of the speeches. The second part describes and explains the functions of each area of the wharenui. The book is well set out, each page dealing with a separate topic. Glossaries on each page explain the Maori terms.
The Marae will be useful for classroom teaching, enabling teachers to approach the unit in a structured way.
There is a separate wall chart showing a marae which links to the book.
Check out Warren Pohatu' s earlier books:
Traditional Maori Legends (Reed 2000)
Te Tai Korero (te reo Maori version)
Maori animal myths (Reed 2001)
and his, just published, Taniwaharau -guardians of the land (Reed 2007)
These are all re-tellings of legends with text on one page and facing illustrations.
Published by Reed
Reviewed by Kathy
3 comments:
This book sounds great!
Along similar lines of books on useful subjects do you have any recommendations for books that introduce earthquake safety. I am librarian at a playcentre in wellington and have been asked to find something fun but informative at a simple level that we can read with the kids to reinforce the safety things we teach them (ie. Earthquake turtles etc). We want a NZ book if possible so the kids will relate.
Sorry Ennavic. The only earthquake fiction relevant to New Zealand for younger readers that I know of is Isabel's Upside-Down Day by Rosamond Rowe. This is based on the experiences of Isabel Rowney in the 1931 Napier Earthquake. It was her first day at school that day. But although there is some factual information about the earthquake, there is nothing of the sort that you are asking about. Perhaps you need to write one?
Thanks Beth :)
I had suggested we do a Centre book using photos of what we do and read that with the kids. It would be hard be hard to write one that has universal safety messages and doing our own lets us take pictures of our own meeting places etc. The only problem is when you suggest these things you end up having to do them *g*
Appreciate your thoughts!
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