The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 1 (Books 1-5)
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The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 1 (Books 1-5) – by Alison Condon and Gina Taggart, illustrated by Tania Hassounia
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 1 is designed for 8 + year olds. The story takes New Zealand back in time 200 years. Each story has been checked by known historians and the relevant Iwi. Learn about the relationship forged between two incredibly different cultures — European and Māori. Read about the hardships and determination of the first missionaries who came to New Zealand. Hear about the positive change that came to Māori as they embraced the missionary message they had invited to come here. Find out about the mistakes that were made and the victories that were won as missionaries tried to do good, while traders tried to make profits, while settlers sought a better life — while Māori were ironically turning away from tribal warfare towards a new way of peace. This is New Zealand’s untold story.
The first five books in The Treaty of Waitangi series include:
Book 1: Te Pōwhiri – The Welcome
A new relationship is beginning between two extremely different cultures. It’s a relationship that will be tested to its very limits. There will be uncertainty, hostility, injustice, hope and promise. Take a glimpse at New Zealand’s early history from Captain Cook’s visit in 1769 to when Māori invite missionaries to live amongst them in 1814. It’s an exciting history – it’s our history.
Book 2: The tale of Te Pahi the Adventurer
When Chief Te Pahi met Samuel Marsden on a visit to Australia in 1805, a new relationship began between Māori and missionaries. Te Pahi was impressed with all the new things he learnt, but one day he heard something he thought was very wrong. He knew he had to speak up.
Book 3: The tale of Ruatara and the New Beginning
Ruatara loves adventure. The young man from the chiefly line of Ngapuhi can’t wait to set sail for England to meet the King.
It’s an adventure that will nearly cost him his life, and which will bring about enormous changes in his country…
Book 4: The tale of Patuone the Peacemaker
A Wesleyan mission station in Northland has been raided causing the missionaries to flee for their lives. A Māori war party is moving through the bush towards them bringing a new danger. Chief Patuone has a decision to make – kill the white people or follow the new message that is coming to Aotearoa.
Book 5: The tale of Elizabeth Colenso the Teacher
Born to missionary parents Elizabeth knew what the life of a missionary would be like. Blessed with the resilience and fortitude to accept the huge workload and challenges she would have to face, Elizabeth forged ahead, teaching Māori not only in her classroom lessons and but in the example of her life as well. Unbeknown to her she was also pioneering the role of women in the workplace.
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About the team who created this series of books:
Dave Mann When he discovered that there were positive stories from the early bicultural years in Aotearoa, he was surprised. Despite some tertiary studies on things-Maori in the early 1990s, he’d never heard many of these stories. They were largely untold. In his words, “Every nation needs positive stories from its early years. They are essential as a basis for positive national identity. While our failures need open admission, it makes no sense that we don’t also know these positive stories; of those who tried to stop colonisation, as one example!” This awareness caused Dave to seek a team who could help to make some of these stories known — stories of some of our nation’s great early bicultural ancestors — whether Māori or Pākehā, male or female. In Dave’s view, this is an approach which gives rise to an attitude of hope in bicultural things.
Alison Condon is a trained primary school teacher and a part-time farmer. She is an internationally published author and has written both fiction and non-fiction works. She has enjoyed seeing over thirty children’s stories, short stories, articles and poems published. Alison has found ‘The Chronicles of Paki’ to be her most challenging and rewarding writing project to date.
The ‘Chronicles of Paki’ series is Gina Taggart’s first venture into published writing. Her interest in the relationship between Māori and the missionaries in the 1800s developed when she realised that many New Zealanders misunderstood the impact of the Gospel on New Zealand’s history. As a Christian, she felt this shortfall could be addressed by writing about the history at a level that children could comprehend, helping New Zealanders better understand their own fascinating story.
Tania Hassounia is a New Zealand illustrator and entrepreneur. The Chronicles of Paki are Tania’s first published set of books, combining her love of drawing with the theme of faith and encouragement.
Eddie Booth is a self taught artist, graphic designer who ran his own graphic design business and has been involved with many interesting illustration projects.
Each series available at Poi Princess:
The Chronicles of Paki – Junior series
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 1
The Chronicles of – NZ’s untold story: Paki Series 2
The Chronicles of Paki – NZ’s untold story: Series 3 – The Treaty of Waitangi + He Whakaputanga
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