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Format: Paperback / softback
Reading Age: From 6 to 12 years
Author: Hirini Moko Mead
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Classification: Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
Description: In the end, Pohutukawa, a chief's daughter, speaks to the taniwha. Through her words a spell is broken, and the taniwha transforms into a young warrior, Te Haeata, who had been cursed by a tohunga long ago. Pohutukawa and Te Haeata fall in love and live out their lives together. But Te Haeata never quite shakes off the spell, and in old age, he transforms into an eel and becomes a guardian in the Rangitaiki river.
Te Hiakai Tangata: The Taniwha of Tuara-Rangaia
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Reading Age: From 6 to 12 years
Author: Hirini Moko Mead
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Classification: Adventure stories (Children's/YA)
Description: In the end, Pohutukawa, a chief's daughter, speaks to the taniwha. Through her words a spell is broken, and the taniwha transforms into a young warrior, Te Haeata, who had been cursed by a tohunga long ago. Pohutukawa and Te Haeata fall in love and live out their lives together. But Te Haeata never quite shakes off the spell, and in old age, he transforms into an eel and becomes a guardian in the Rangitaiki river.
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