waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa - Te Ropu Whakahau

te reo Maori. When Brian Morris from HuiaPublisher came up to accept the KuraPounamu award award he spoke about howNgarimu he tohu toa was a really collaborativeeffort. Not just with the illustrator, researcherand publishing staff at Huia, but with the descendantsof Ngarimu, Ngāti Porou kaumatuaand the MOE. A truly Māori book!intricate clay art which add an almost threedimensional effect to the illustrations. Everytime you “read” the illustrations you noticeanother detail. The online books(www.hana.co.nz/hina) also add a further dimensionto the reading experience of thesebooks as well as providing valuable teachingand learning resources. These books haveopened another te reo Māori door into PacifichistoryAlso presented for the third year were the TeRōpū Whakahau awards .Te Tohu Hoani Whatahorofor te wahanga pono , waspresented to the Kapa, TeNiu, Te Mata o Tuna, AHina rāua ko Mo’o Kunaseries (HANA Limited).This series of four nonfictionbooks take us intothe Pacific. The first tworetell legends about Hina,or Sina from the Pacific. A Hina rāua ko Mo’oKuna is a legend about Hina, from Hilo an islandin Hawai’i and Te Mata o Tuna, a legendabout Hina from Manihiki in the Cooks.Te Tohu Pounamu award changes annually inorder to recognise excellence that would nototherwise be recognised in the other awardcategories. This year we went outside theshort listed titles to award it to Haumi E the tereo magazine published by Huia for teenagers.Magazines like these help rangatahi put languageinto every day context. Haumi e is successful,we believe because the students cansee their role models and themselves in themagazine.From these two legends come twoimportant taonga for Pacific people;tapa and coconuts. Kapagives the reader the factual informationabout tapa and TeNiu explains the many usesand products derived fromthe coconut. Te Mata oTuna, and A Hina rāua koMo’o Kuna are superbly illustratedby Ellie May Logana mixed media artist usingBrian Morris from Huia Publishers accepting the Tohu Pounamuaward from AnaheraTe Tohu Ngā Kete e toru award for fictionwas presented to He ora kupu series by PetiNohotima (He Kupenga Hao i te Reo). Thisseries of four books follow two sibling teenagers,Rawiri and his older brother, Matiuthrough their family and school life, delvingthrough all the issues that confront teenagerstoday from bullying to sibling rivalry. Once7