Awesome Aotearoa: A Kids' History of New Zealand
The famous children's writer joins forces with her country's top political cartoonist in this hilarious and irreverent history of Aotearoa - or New Zealand, to use its other name.
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| ISBN-13 |
9780958282970 |
| ISBN-10 |
0958282978 |
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| Stock |
Out of stock |
| Status |
Not currently available |
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| Publisher |
AUT Media |
| Imprint |
AUT Media |
| Publication Date |
7 October 2011
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| International Publication Date |
1 January 2009 |
| Publication Country |
 New Zealand |
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| Format |
Paperback, 2011 edition |
| Edition |
2011 edition |
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| Author(s) |
By Mahy, Margaret
Illustrated by Hodgson, Trace |
| Category |
History
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| Interest Age |
7-10 years |
| Reading Age |
7-10 years |
| NBS Text |
Children's General Non-Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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| Number of Pages |
136 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 210mm
Height: 280mm
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| Weight |
Not specified - defaults to 600g |
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| Dewey Code |
993 |
| Catalogue Code |
38671 |
Description of this Book
New Zealand is certainly an adventurous country...we have forests and rocky beaches. We have earthquakes and volcanoes, and pools of boiling mud and these days we also have the All Blacks - a world famous rugby football team. Earthquakes, boiling mud and rugby players! Who could wish for more? The famous children's writer joins forces with her country's top political cartoonist in this hilarious and irreverent history of Aotearoa - or New Zealand, to use its other name.
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Author's Bio
Margaret Mahy is a prolific writer of children's books, and winner of the 2006 Hans Christian Andersen Award. She has won the Carnegie Medal three times (1982, 1986 and 1987), the Young Observer Fiction Prize (1986), the Italian Premier Grafico Award (1976) and the Dutch Silver Pencil Award (1977). She has also been awarded the Esther Glen Medal of the New Zealand Library Association six times, been appointed a writing fellow in New Zealand and Australia, and in the United States her works have won awards and been included in prestige listings by journal editors, librarians and educationalists. Trace Hodgson is New Zealand's foremost newspaper cartoonist. His work regularly appears or has appeared in the New Zealand Herald, National Business Review, The Press, The Listener and Sunday Star-Times.
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