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How Māui found the secret of fire / Peter Gossage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Puffin, 2012.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9780143505648
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.208999442 23
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Māoritanga Eltham LibraryPlus Children's Māoritanga 398 MYTHS AND LEGENDS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available I2181727
Children's nonfiction Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's Children's nonfiction 398 MYTHS & LEGENDS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available I2117278
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Previously published: North Shore, N.Z. : Puffin, 2008.

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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