TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gossage,Peter
TI  - How Māui found the secret of fire
SN  - 9781869485757
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Auckland [N.Z.]
PB  - Reed
KW  - Maui (Polynesian deity)
KW  - Children's nonfiction
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people)
KW  - Folklore
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Māui
KW  - reo
KW  - Kōrero pono mā te tamariki
KW  - Pūrākau
N1  - Originally published: Lansdowne-Rigby, 1984
N2  - 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
ER  -