Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's classic 1984 picture book of Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street returns in a bilingual Maori-English setting.
Patricia Grace (Author)
Patricia Grace (Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa) is one of
New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She has published seven
novels and seven short-story collections, as well as a number of
books for children and non-fiction. Among numerous awards, her
children's story The Kuia and the Spider won the Children's Picture
Book of the Year and she has also won the New Zealand Book Awards
For Children and Young Adults Te Kura Pounamu Award. She lives in
Plimmerton.
Robyn Kahukiwa (Illustrator)
Robyn Kahukiwa (Ngati Porou) is a highly regarded New Zealand
contemporary artist and award-winning author and illustrator of
children's books. She is best known for her work drawing on Maori
symbolism and mythological figures as well as for her staunch
support of Maori women's rights. She has written and illustrated
more than a dozen books of her own and in 2011 Kahukiwa was awarded
Te Tohu Toi Ke a Te Waka Toi/Making a Difference Award for her
contribution to Maori arts.
Hirini (Syd) Melbourne (Translator)
Hirini Melbourne (1949-2003) of Ngai Tuhoe and Ngati Kahungunu was
an internationally acclaimed performing artist and composer, and a
tohunga of making and playing traditional Maori instruments. He was
appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2003 for
services to Maori language, music and culture and posthumously
inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
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