Notes

The family make Mama close her eyes as they lead her to her surprise, but readers can see what is going on in the illustrations and anticipate her pleasure when she discovers what the treat is. Nga Kete Korero is a core programme of sequential early readers and support materials designed for children, from emergent to fluency stages who are learning to read Maori. The four levels are Harakeke, Kiekie, Pingao, and Miro, with sublevels indicated by the five vowels in ascending order of difficulty.