This book is fabulous. The history of the people of our islands, but finally not P-keh- centric.
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This book is fabulous. The history of the people of our islands, but finally not P-keh- centric.
There is so much in this book!!
Great book.
Over a thousand years ago, the wind, sea currents and stars brought people to
the islands that became known as Aotearoa, the land of the long white
cloud.Navigate your way through this sumptuously illustrated story of New
Zealand. Explore the defining moments of our history, captured by celebrated
children's book creator Gavin Bishop, from the Big Bang right through to what
might happen tomorrow. Discover Maori legends, layers of meaning and
lesser-known facts.AÂ truly special book, Aotearoa- The New Zealand Story
deserves a space on every bookshelf, to be taken off and pored over, thumbed and
treasured, time and again. NZ Listener 50Â Best Books for Kids 2017Â The Sapling
Best Books List 2017
Author Biography
Gavin Bishop is a highly acclaimed children's book author and illustrator. Born
in Invercargill, he spent his childhood in the remote railway settlement of
Kingston on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Studying under Russell Clark and Rudi
Gopas, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with
an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School and at
Christ's College in Christchurch.He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, as
well as numerous fellowships and national book awards. His book Weaving Earth
and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ
Post Children's Book Awards 2003, and was shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie
Locke Medal in 2003. He has won the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration
four times- Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant (1981); Kiwi Moon (2006); Rats!
(2008); and There was a Crooked Man (2010). Among his successful partnerships
has been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior
Fiction and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children's Book Awards for
Snake and Lizard. The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book
Illustration was established in 2009Â to encourage emergent illustrators and to
acknowledge Gavin's contriÂbution to the writing and illustrating of
children's picture books. In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand
Order of Merit, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors.
Gavin's artwork has featured in exhibitions internationally, including Japan
and Czechoslovakia. He has written and designed two ballets for the Royal New
Zealand Ballet Company- Terrible Tom and Te Maia and the Sea Devil. In 2003Â he
shared the Ursula Bethell Residency with Catherine Chidgey
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