How Māui found the secret of fire /

Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016,

How Māui found the secret of fire / Peter Gossage. - Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2005. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Originally published: Lansdowne-Rigby, 1984.

On a mission to discover how fire is made, Māui visits his Aunty Mahuika. Each time he is given a flame he tells her he has lost it, until he eventually has lost all but one of her flames. In a rage she flings her last flame into a kaikomako tree. Māui takes a piece of hard mahoe wood and rubs it against a branch of the tree, bringing fire for eternity to his people. Suggested level: junior, primary.

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Maui (Polynesian deity)--Children's nonfiction.
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Folklore--New Zealand--Children's nonfiction.
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