Rona Moon: Ko Rona Mahina

Description

'Everything looks so small from up here,' said Rona. 'I know,' Whaea beamed. 'Even the reasons we felt angry seem so little.' The beloved myth of Rona and the Moon comes to 21st-century Aotearoa in English and Maori in Tim Tipene's sensitive telling, strikingly illustrated by Tai Tokerau artist Theresa Reihana. Rona Moon gets angry with everyone - her brother, her Nana and Papa - and then one night she calls the moon stupid! Taken to meet her ancestor Whaea Rona on the moon, she learns a lesson in how to control her temper

Tim Tipene (Ngati Kuri, Ngati Whatua) is the award-winning author of over 12 children's books, and a pioneering youth counsellor. He lives with his children in Ranui, West Auckland. Theresa Reihana (Ngati Hine) is a visual artist who has exhibited worldwide, and is now venturing into book illustration; she lives outside Kaitaia. Stephanie Huriana Fong (Te Rarawa) is a registered translator of te Reo who also works in TV and other media; her translation of I Need a New Bum! published in September 2022.

' my picture book of the year ... Rona Moon, published by Oratia. It is a wickedly funny story about a bad-tempered girl who gets angry at the moon, and learns from it. Praise be, it is written in prose, not in terrible rhyming verse, and that prose includes lines that are extremely fun to read' - Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff