Atua
Maori Gods and Heroes
$37.69
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2021
Summary
Gavin Bishop’s stunning, once-in-a-generation compendium introduces readers to the pantheon of Maori gods, demigods and heroes, and explores Aotearoa’s most exciting legends from the Creation to the Migration.
Meet the gods, demigods and heroes of the Maori people of Aotearoa in this breathtaking, large-scale illustrated book for children.
Before the beginning there was nothing. No sound, no air, no colour – nothing. TE KORE, NOTHING.
No one knows how long this nothing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143775690 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143775693 |
| Author: | Gavin Bishop |
| Publisher: | Penguin NZ |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 986g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 287mm x 346mm |
| Audience Age: | 5-12 |
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Gavin Bishop
Gavin Bishop is an award-winning children’s picture book writer and illustrator who lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He has authored and illustrated approximately 60 books, ranging from original stories to retellings of Māori myths, European fairy stories, and nursery rhymes. Gavin has a long-held interest in depicting New Zealand’s history through illustration, as seen in:
- The House that Jack Built (1999), a now-classic picture book that won Book of the Year.
- His junior novels Piano Rock (2012) and Teddy One-Eye (2014).
- His landmark illustrated non-fiction title Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story (October 2017), which was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
- A companion volume, Wildlife of Aotearoa (October 2019), won a Storylines Notable Non-Fiction Award and the 2020 NZ Booklover Awards Best Children’s Book, and was a finalist for the 2020 Russell Clark Award for Illustration.
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