How Maui found the secret of fire / Peter Gossage.

By:

Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: North Shore, N.Z. : Puffin, 2012Description: 1 v. ; col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:

9780143505648 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

428.6 23

Summary: On a mission to discover how fire is made, Maui 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. Maui 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	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	428.6 GOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A511815B

Previously published: North Shore, N.Z. : Puffin, 2008.

On a mission to discover how fire is made, Maui 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. Maui 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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