'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.     

'Can't be playing with matches. You could set the whole world ablaze.' 'That's what she said,' Rāwiri mumbled with a mouth full of food. A crease formed in Nana's brow. 'Who said?'

Nana reached out and grabbed Pipi and Pou. 'Don't move,' she muttered. The large pincer belonged to a giant pāpaka, which rose up from the water revealing ...

Something magical is lurking beneath the streets of Auckland. Horotiu, the taniwha, lives deep underground and he is unhappy, as the stream in his care has been forgotten. Can you help our superheroes, Pipi and Pou, calm him?   

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 ...

'Āe tika, it's been in the news,' Minister Reihana continued. 'All of our kauri have been under threat of disease, yet there is something else going on with...

Opening her throat, Nana gave an almighty karanga, calling to the moana. She told the sea who she was, and where she had come from. The tohunga...

Pipi and Pou want to spend the day reading but Nana says they have to go up north - someone needs their help. Yet when they get there....

Pipi and Pou are looking forward to a weekend of screen time but Nana has other ideas. The earth is shaking down south and Nana wants to find out why.

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

Raised in violence, the product of rape, Tim Tipene not only survived, he found how to accept and then overcome the hurt ... to achieve the ultimate revenge - a successful life.

Tim Tipene tells tales from his childhood. sometimes humorous, often horrifying, but the real story, and the lesson it brings, comes from the reasons for his actions and the kindnesses he found along the way.

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.

Going to school is a misery for Sean. Whatever he does to avoid the school bully, Mark Thomas and his mates always catch up with him. Then the students join Warrior Kids. A programme that...

Haki feels the road under his head. He isn't sure if he has survived the car crash, he isn't even sure if he cares. Then an old man appears.

Warrior Kids is a pioneering programme that over 28 years empowered thousands of children across New Zealand, many of them from challenged backgrounds.

Jahnine tried to shake the patu from her grasp, but the weapon held fast. It was a part of her. Life is challenging for 16-year-old Jahnine Bryne.

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.