'I'm gonna bring this rākau down,' says Dad. 'We'll have a better view ...' Pani and Waima can't understand why Dad wants to cut down the tree in their back yard.     

Some people find it hard to read - the boy in this book does. But there are books that make you read them and they open up fantastic worlds ...

Rona Moon gets angry with everyone - her brother, her Nana and Papa. Then one night, she calls the moon stupid!

Māui is a boy who lives with his mother and four older brothers in a city where the day is never long enough to get things done. Māui decides this has to change.

Hinemoa was tough.

'I am a warrior,' she'd say, 'Hinemoa te toa - just like my ancestors.'

Is there anything Hinemoa is afraid of?

Rewa works at a job he doesn't enjoy; he often imagines being a bird and flying away. His worried mother sends him to a tohunga, a wise man.

A death is mourned, a birth is celebrated, and a little girl sees that life comes full circle. A poetic and moving tale.

Tama needs to find out just how to tame the meanest, greenest taniwha he's ever met ...

Hanseni wants to help his mother and father but he is too little. Then one day the fishermen of the village return with no fish and the villagers have to go hungry.

How did the iwi, (tribe), Ngāti Kurī get their name. This is a pakiwaitara – a traditional Māori story that explains natural phenomena or why something is the way it is.     

I dream. I dream morning, when it is still dark and Te Marama, the moon, a luminous orb, is shining in the sky like pāua.