Contents

Contents : over on the farm by Gwenda Turner -- Bidibidi by Gavin Bishop -- Taniwha by Robyn Kahukiwa -- Haiku by Hone Tuwhare -- The man from the land of fandango by Margaret Mahy -- Bird of prayer by Hone Tuwhare -- from Shining rivers by Ruth Dallas -- from Bow down Shadrach by Joy Cowley -- from Again the bugles blow by Rob Bacon -- Denzil’s dilemma by Sherryl Jordan -- The man whose mother was a pirate by Margaret Mahy -- Kahukura and the sea fairies by Pauline Cartwright -- from Focus and the death-ride by Ken Catran -- from Night race to kawauby Tessa Duder -- Old tip and the hot water bottle by Jack Lasenby -- Sands by Laura Ranger -- The smallest turtle by Lynley Dodd -- Tulevai and the sea by Joy Cowley -- from Drovers road by Joyce West -- Haiku by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- from Falter tom and the water boy by Maurice Duggan -- from The runaway settlers by Elsie Locke -- What peculiar people by Dorothy Butler -- Emily’s wonderful pie by Jane Cornish -- from A dolphin in the bay by Diana Noonan -- from Archway arrow by Margaret Beames -- autumn gold by Laura Ranger -- from Knitwits by William Taylor -- The Tramp by Anthony Holcroft -- from the winning touch by David Hill -- from the bantam and the soldier by Jennifer Beck -- grandpa’s slippers by Joy Watson -- Duckat by Gaelyn Gordon -- The kuia and the spider by Patricia Grace -- from Sign of the lion by Sherryl Jordan -- The warrior mountains by Katerina Mataira -- At a fishing settlement by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell -- Grandma Mcgarvey paints the shed by Jenny Hessell -- from Kissing fish by Janice Marriott -- from under the mountain by Maurice Gee -- index of authors -- acknowledgements.