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The Kuia and The Spider

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Kuia and The Spider
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Patricia Grace
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 273,Width 215
ISBN/Barcode 9780140503876
ClassificationsDewey:823.2
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Group (NZ)
Imprint Puffin
Publication Date 20 October 1982
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

Absorbing New Zealand tale of the Kuia (a grandmother) and the spider. Ideal for reading aloud.

Author Biography

Patricia Grace has won many awards for her work, including the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Patricia lives in Plimmerton near Wellington on the ancestral land of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.