Matariki

As dawn approaches on June 24th the star cluster known in Aotearoa New Zealand as Matariki will be rising. This will herald in the Maori New Year. With each passing year, this celebration is becoming more popular.

Hear Toni Rolleston-Cummins read her book The Seven Stars of Matariki

And the Maori version (translated by Hone Morris) too - Te Huihui o Matariki


Published by Huia 2008

The author, Toni Rolleston-Cummins (Te Arawa, Ngai te rangi, Ngati Ranginui), is a primary school teacher, has a journalism degree and has written poems and stories from a young age. Finding a shortage of good books about Matariki, she originally wrote this story to engage and entertain her class, to make the story of Matariki come alive and have meaning.