Contents

Authors : Promises by Margaret Mahy -- The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace -- The Aiku by Emma Kruse Va’ai -- The Fat Ghost by Margaret Mahy -- Nana’s Spectacles by Joy Cowley -- Skipping Rhyme by Gwenyth Jones -- Fire in the Fish and Chip Shop by Kay Mooney -- Family treasures by Margaret Mahy -- Annie & Moon by Miriam Smith -- The trouble with Tarzan by Joy Cowley -- The Gunfight by Apirana Taylor -- A boy for a pet by Joy Cowley -- The Mower by Jane Buxton -- The Seven Whales by Mere Whaanga-Schollum -- Sam and the Dog from the sea by Judy and Dick Frizzell -- From Joseph’s Boat by Caroline Macdonald -- Calling up the sea by Joy Cowley -- The pet Whale by Katerina Mataira -- Chudka Popoy Ugh Cha Cha by Apirana Taylor -- Xmas Breakfast at the beach by Ursula Poole -- The best of everything by Witi Ihimaera -- from the Birds of Summer by Gray Pebble -- The haircut by Bill Nagelkerke -- Holiday with Pets by Kay Mooney -- Her Majesty Mrs Harris by Joy Cowley -- from the Bus under the leaves by Margaret Mahy -- A free Show by Brian Sutton-Smith -- Dad’s disgusting dash by Kay Mooney -- Charlie Mung by Judith Holloway -- Rain stopped play by Kay Mooney -- The tail of the smallest piglet by Beverley Dunlop -- Pen friends by Elsie Locke -- farm trip by Olga Kerr -- Down in the Brunner Mine by Anonymous -- Journey by night by Kay Mooney -- from Johnny Sweep by Eve Sutton -- Jam sandwiches by John Smith -- The Pupu pool by Witi Ihimaera -- the warrior mountains by Katerine Mataira -- a pair of boots by Amelia Batistich -- Bandy by Gloria A. Gibson -- Best Dog by Jack Gabolinscy -- from Falter Tom and the Water boy by Maurice Duggan -- from Pack up, pick up and off by William Taylor -- a case of murder by Derek Richards -- beans by Patricia Grace -- Uncle Trev’s teeth by Jack Lasenby -- The river which ran away by Katerina Mataira -- acknowledgements.