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Te Kokorangi 3: A Aria Me Te Motu Pouakai
Ka Mau a Te Kokorangi i te Wa
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Enter the realm of Te Kokorangi... In this award-winning illustrated series, Maori myths and monsters come to life! Will the Astromancer's tribe survive its final battle? Join Te Kokorangi and her apprentices on a time travel adventure to Hawaiki and meet Ruapakanga and his tohora warriors!...
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Enter the realm of Te Kokorangi...
In this award-winning illustrated series, Maori myths and monsters come to life!
Will the Astromancer's tribe survive its final battle?
Join Te Kokorangi and her apprentices on a time travel adventure to Hawaiki and meet Ruapakanga and his tohora warriors!
'Katahi na te rapunga.' - Magpies
'Chock full of danger, heroes, old wisdom and new blood' - NZ Herald
Nau mai, hoki mai ki te ao o Te Kokorangi, ki te kainga tuturu o te purakau me ona hanga whakawehi . . .
Noho morearea ana te iwi o Te Kokorangi. Taihoa ratou ka urutomokia e te manomano kiore, a, kei te whakangarahu ano a Ruatapu te Pukurua. Ka hoki a Te Kokorangi raua ko te tore kai huruhuru nei, ko Iwihoia, ki Hawaiki, ki te tono awhina i tetahi tohunga o reira. Nawai i morearea te haere, ka tata mai ko Mate, i to raua kapohanga ake e te pouakai weriweri.
Riro ana ma te tino pia a Te Kokorangi, ma Aria e kimi ara ke atu hei whakatutuki i ta Te Kokorangi raua ko Iwihoia i timata ai. Waihoki, ki te tau wawe atu ia ki te motu o te pouakai, tera pea raua e taea e ia te whakaora . . .
A thrilling, large-scale Maori-language illustrated picture book in chapters, exploring legends of Polynesia. This is the third fantasy quest set in the realm of Te Kokorangi, lore-master of the stars, bringing the award-winning trilogy to a thrilling conclusion.
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#1 Te Kokorangi - A Storylines Notable Te Reo Maori Book 2022
#2 A Aria me te Atua o te Kumara - Winner of Te Kura Pounamu Award 2025
Also available in an English-language edition, Aria and the Monster Island
Product Details
INFORMATION
Barcode: 9781776953486
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 April 2026
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Picture Puffin
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Length: 11.0mm
Width: 218.0mm
Height: 255.0mm
Weight: 464g
Pages: 64
About the Author
Witi Ihimaera (Author) Witi Ihimaera has published many notable novels, short story collections and nonfiction works, as well as a range of wonderful children's works. His best-known novel The Whale Rider became an international hit film in 2002. Witi has also had careers in diplomacy, teaching, theatre, opera, film and television. He's received numerous awards for his contribution to literature, including the French Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the NZ Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction in 2017. He is currently on a journey to reclaim his reo Maori, which is leading to exciting developments and new highs in his writing. Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Illustrator) Isobel Te Aho-White (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu) is an award-winning Illustrator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her book Santa's Worst Christmas (2019) with Huia publishers was nominated for the NCYA Book Awards across five categories and her book Whiti: Colossal Squid of the Deep (2020) written by Victoria Cleal and published by Te Papa Press won a Whitley award for best children's book. She is the illustrator of Witi Ihimaera's novels about Te Kokorangi, the Astromancer (Puffin, 2022 and 2024), a co-illustrator of The Maori Picture Dictionary/Te Papakupu Whakaahua by Margaret Sinclair and Ross Calman (Puffin, 2022), and her illustrations have enhanced well over 30 children's books to date. Heni Jacob (Translator) Heni Jacob (Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Porou) lives in Otaki and is a freelance Maori language translator and writer.
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