Tattooing is in the blood in New Zealand, and styles worn with pride here in Aotearoa are appreci...

This concise guide to the art of greenstone carving, out of print for the past 20 years, returns ...

'Less than a thousand years of human occupation have massively altered Aotearoa. In this fascinat...

Legends of Rotorua and the Hot Lakes

Here in striking and clear terms are depicted the earth movements above and below New Zealand—wit...

Te Arawa is the major work by one of the leading historians of pre-European New Zealand, the late...

Whāriki

A book to treasure for young and old, Robyn Kahukiwa's Ngā Atua: Mā ori Gods takes the reader on ...

Te Toi Whakairo

Life with Cars

The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aot...

Tāniko weaving is one of the supreme expressions of Māori art. Weaving and dyeing the fibres of ...

The Forgotten Wars

From the Book: Is he a hippo that looks like a mouse? Just who or what is Squeakopotamus? And how...

'Te Kuia Moko is a taonga recording 34 Måaori women, all bearing moko kauae (chin tattoos). First...

The use of te reo Māori in daily New Zealand life is snowballing, as is demand for resources to m...

Freyberg

Mā ori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional know...

In this beautifully illustrated retelling of a key Polynesian myth, Māui is a schoolboy who live...

Kia toa, e hine mā, e tama mā, kia kaua hoki koutou e whakamā.Me waiata koutou ki ngā manu o tō k...

12 beautiful huia birds play and sing in the forest. But is that a canoe arriving?A rat sniffling...

Rush to Riches

Events in the Life of Phillip Tapsell

The New Zealand Wars

Weta, cricket, beetle and theirfriends want to come along to school with the kids. But is it such...

In this comprehensive collection, now in its third edition, esteemed editor Ross Calman revises t...

He Iti Te Kupu

First Encounters

Nanny Mihi’s grandchildren excitedly visit her every school holidays. Only this time they arrive ...

‘New Zealand is for me a kind of promised land.’Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser ...

Selwyn Muru (Ngāti Kurī) is a key figure across many forms of modern Māori art. This full-colour ...

This is a true classic: a Māori to English dictionary by the great A.W. Reed with two fine illust...

Hickory Dickory Slick, the halfback pulled a trick. What's not to laugh about when watching men o...

Kia hou taku tou! Ko tōku, kua tawhā. What better way to mark the tenth anniversary of the legend...

Award-winning children's author Philippa Werry teams up with leading Turkish illustrator Burak Ak...

Born into poverty in 1939, Toby Curtis has risen to the peak of achievement in Måaoridom. His lon...

The boy at the centre of Tim Tipene’s striking new story doesn’t like reading, until one day in t...

Vikings of the Sunrise ranks as a masterpiece of Pacific studies. From the pen of one of the grea...

‘How was school today, Huia’ her mum asked. ‘It was okay … but our news topic is our family.’Huia...

Aimed at readers 8+ but valuable for anyone with an interest in our Pacific ‘āiga (family), this ...

Aimed at readers 8+ but valuable for anyone with an interest in our Pacific kopu tangata (family)...

The boy at the centre of Tim Tipene’s striking new story doesn’t like reading, until one day in t...

A book to treasure for young and old, Robyn Kahukiwa’s Ngā Atua – Māori Gods takes the reader on ...

The definitive account of New Zealand’s role in the disastrous 1915 Gallipoli campaign, when a Br...

Heres a fantastic tale for kids about the classic Kiwi holiday that includes a caravan, a beach a...

The beloved myth of Rona and the Moon comes to 21st-century Aotearoa in English and M¿ori in Tim ...

12 Huia Birds is a captivating celebration of one of our loveliest birds. Through gentle rhyme an...

Sir Singlet is clever with needle and threadSee all the cushions he’s made for his bed …Narrated ...