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Dame Lisa Carrington Set To Launch New Children's Picture Books At Te Papa This Weekend
Monday, 26 August 2024, 5:44 pm | Huia Publishers
Dame Lisa’s first endeavour to create children’s picture books offers a unique glimpse into some of the strategies that have defined her illustrious career. More >>
Book Celebrates Over 150 Years Of Māori Achievement At College
Saturday, 10 September 2022, 7:00 pm | Huia Publishers
Over 200 guests and past pupils gathered at St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College in Napier this afternoon to celebrate the launch of A History of St Joseph’s Māori Girls’ College by Dr Malcolm Mulholland (Ngāti Kahungunu). Covering over 150 years, ... More >>
New Book Supports Māori-led Response To COVID-19
Monday, 13 December 2021, 7:56 am | Huia Publishers
A new book about the roadside checkpoints aims to show how Māori-led community responses can have positive benefits for everyone, especially in times of crisis. Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga by Luke Fitzmaurice (Te Aupōuri) ... More >>
Junior Novel: The Activist, The Taniwha And The Government
Monday, 2 November 2020, 5:34 pm | Huia Publishers
In small-town Aotearoa, the government wants to build a prison over sacred land and destroy the home of a taniwha. Twelve-year-old Niko wants to stop it, but he is a nobody, and everyone thinks he is pōrangi, crazy. Who is going to listen to ... More >>
Whakapapa Connection Unlocks New Fantasy-adventure Novel
Tuesday, 22 September 2020, 12:17 pm | Huia Publishers
What Would You Do If You Found A Mermaid Washed Up On The Beach? This question was the inspiration that sparked Christchurch based author and secondary school teacher Tania Roxborogh to write her new fantasy-adventure novel Charlie Tangaroa and the ... More >>
Seven Finalists From HUIA In Children’s Book Awards
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 8:56 am | Huia Publishers
HUIA books have been selected in five categories in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The five categories are Picture Book, Illustration, Young Adult Fiction, Te Kura Pounamu and Best First Book. ‘There has been a bumper ... More >>
Christmas is Cancelled: Santa Quits!
Thursday, 31 October 2019, 8:44 am | Huia Publishers
It is three days before Christmas, and everyone is busy putting up decorations, preparing food and getting ready for the big day. Suddenly, it’s all over the news that Christmas is cancelled and Santa has quit! Why? What’s happened? The children in Huia Publishers’ ... More >>
Short Story Collection Brings Māori Voices Together
Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 8:41 am | Huia Publishers
Huia Short Stories 13 presents the shortlisted stories from the 2019 Pikihuia Awards, a programme aimed at identifying new literary talent and the best Māori writers. Twenty three writers tell their stories, building on the literary traditions of their ... More >>
Principal’s Camp Fire Stories Spark Kids Reading
Tuesday, 3 September 2019, 8:53 am | Huia Publishers
Oturu School principal and author Fraser Smith, will launch a new junior novel Awatea and the Kawa Gang, which is a sequel to his acclaimed debut novel Awatea’s Treasure. In the story, we meet up again with Awatea, on his grandparents’ farm ... More >>
Four finalists from HUIA in children’s book awards
Friday, 7 June 2019, 8:36 am | Huia Publishers
HUIA books have been selected as finalists in four categories in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The four categories are Picture Book, Illustration, Junior Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction. ‘We are really proud of ... More >>
New War Book: A WW2 Naval Story of Escape and Survival
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 10:49 am | Huia Publishers
An incredible war story of survival brings to light first-hand accounts of an event known within the New Zealand Navy as ‘The Great Escape’. Close to the Wind , the debut novel by David B. Hill, honours the service of a group of Auckland yachtsmen, ... More >>
New children's book makes a splash
Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 10:26 am | Huia Publishers
Summer’s nearly here, and everyone’ll be heading to the beach, river or pool to pull off the perfect dive bomb. But what if you just can’t get it right? This is the dilemma for the boy in Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan’s picture book, The ... More >>
First-time author launches two novels
Thursday, 18 October 2018, 9:50 am | Huia Publishers
First-time author Steph Matuku is making an extraordinary entrance into the New Zealand book scene by publishing not one but two debut novels for young readers: Flight of the Fantail and Whetū Toa and the Magician . Flight of the Fantail is a science ... More >>
Maori Sons Go To War
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 10:08 am | Huia Publishers
Wellington-based writer Whiti Hereaka launches her third novel Legacy, a thrilling and realistic story of being in the great war. Fans will be captivated by the time-travel adventure and experience a sense of connection with the characters who represent ... More >>
Reviving Māori Plant Knowledge
Wednesday, 1 August 2018, 11:06 am | Huia Publishers
The new book Treasures of Tāne: Plants of Ngāi Tahu by Rob Tipa aims to make available traditional and historical knowledge about South Island native plants. This book brings together a wealth of knowledge, some of which is not readily available or ... More >>
How Culture Is Transforming Mental Health
Thursday, 21 June 2018, 12:34 pm | Huia Publishers
‘Mental health issues are arguably the single greatest threat to Māori health and well-being,’ says Professor Te Kani Kingi, one author of the new book Maea te Toi Ora: Māori Health Transformations . This book brings together a number of ... More >>
Mataatua Whare – The House That Came Home
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 10:37 am | Huia Publishers
Mataatua Wharenui – Te Whare i Hoki Mai is the remarkable and disturbing story of the journey of one of New Zealand’s foremost wharenui (meeting houses), away from the people of Ngāti Awa and Whakatāne to exhibitions around the world, before ... More >>
Applications open for Te Papa Tupu 2018
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 8:23 am | Huia Publishers
Māori writers once again have an opportunity to grow their skills and fine-tune their writing in Te Papa Tupu, a writing programme developed by the Māori Literature Trust and organised by Huia Publishers. More >>
Ngāti Kahu book gives real insight into Treaty of Waitangi
Wednesday, 27 December 2017, 1:12 pm | Huia Publishers
Many iwi have been through the Treaty of Waitangi Claims process to try and resolve past injustices, however very few have been able to document the detail of the process, provide an analysis of the policy and behaviour of the government both before and ... More >>
What is the Future for Kaupapa Māori?
Friday, 27 October 2017, 9:54 am | Huia Publishers
Over the last twenty years, Kaupapa Māori has become central to the work of researchers in the field of Māori education and indigenous studies and in the areas of social policy and practice from architecture to law to public health. But what is its future ... More >>