Under the rainbow: A treasury of New Zealand children's stories
Description
This superb collection aims at giving a picture of life in New Zealand over 150 years as seen through the eyes of storytellers and poets. Most major New Zealand writers for children are represented, from Lady Barker's account of the great snowstorm of 1867, to Elsie Locke's view of the Tarawera eruption; from Maurice Gee's story of black marketing in World War II, to a present- day sailing story by Tessa Duder. The chronological sequence is interspersed with Maori mythology, fantasy stories and poems about distinctively New Zealand animals like the moa and Captain Cook pig. ...
ISBN(s)
1869530357, 9781869530358
