Matariki Around The World
Written by Rangi Matamua & Miriama Kamo
Illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
The Matariki cluster (or Pleiades) is known by many different names and is seen and celebrated by many cultures around the world. This book features 21 stories: 9 of which highlight the Māori Matariki stars, while the others reference the stories about this cluster from different cultures, from the Pacific Islands to Australia, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa.
Written by Rangi Matamua & Miriama Kamo
Illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
The Matariki cluster (or Pleiades) is known by many different names and is seen and celebrated by many cultures around the world. This book features 21 stories: 9 of which highlight the Māori Matariki stars, while the others reference the stories about this cluster from different cultures, from the Pacific Islands to Australia, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa.
Written by Rangi Matamua & Miriama Kamo
Illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White
The Matariki cluster (or Pleiades) is known by many different names and is seen and celebrated by many cultures around the world. This book features 21 stories: 9 of which highlight the Māori Matariki stars, while the others reference the stories about this cluster from different cultures, from the Pacific Islands to Australia, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa.
2022 Storylines Notable Non-fiction Award
Miriama Kamo is an award-winning journalist. She is the anchor of TVNZ’s flagship current affairs programme Sunday and Māori current affairs programme Marae. Miriama has worked on many of TVNZ’s key programmes including 1 News as a newsreader. She is also a keen writer who is published in Metro, NZ Herald and The Spinoff. Miriama’s first children’s book with Scholastic was the popular The Stolen Stars of Matariki.
Rangi Mātāmua is a New Zealand indigenous studies and Māori cultural astronomy academic of Tūhoe descent. He is the first Māori to win a Prime Minister’s Science Prize, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Rangi holds extensive knowledge about our skies, star clusters, galaxies and planets and is on a mission to disseminate star lore left to him by his tīpuna Te Kōkau and Rāwiri Te Kōkau.
★★★★★
“This book embodies the very meaning of Matariki - it allows us to remember the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future. Matariki Around the World is a treasure of a book that fosters connection and celebrates who we are.“
Rebekah Lyell