Books Should Be Free Loyal Books Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads |
|
Author Collection |
---|
By: Edith Howes (1872-1954) | |
---|---|
![]() A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). | |
![]() Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this memory retelling the carvings all have relative information and prompts, stories of Atua (sort of gods) and other people (pakeha) that have been encountered are all blended into the stories.One of the amazing things to listen to is a person's whakapapa (family line). My son's father can tell his whakapapa right back to first landing in the canoe Aotea. It takes hours with the stories of battles, moving and resettling and then the invasion of British soldiers and settlers... | |
![]() Charming stories and poems for young children about nature and the changes that occur with the seasons, weaving in life lessons throughout the stories. | |