Contents

Contents : Introduction -- from Mona Minim and the smell of the sun by Janet Frame -- Learning to read by Cilla McQueen -- Flora and the Strawberry Red Birthday Party by Ronda Armitage -- Eeling by Kelly Kaitana -- Grandpa’s Day by Ellena Ashley -- Beside the Wairoa Sea Bar by Anita Hodgson-Windsor -- The Frog Search by Julia Crouth -- from Ragamuffin Scarecrow by Ruth Dallas -- The Stone Owl by Peter Bland -- Jeevie by Jillian Squire -- from Brenda’s Planetary Holiday by Tina Shaw -- How the horse latitudes got their name by Jack Lasenby -- from My Story : Below the mountains by Jean Bennett -- Little duck checks it out by Grey Armstrong -- The Tree Witches by Gwenda Turner -- Hector an old bear by Dorothy Butler -- Flood by Hone Tuwhare -- The Pet Whale by Katerina Mataira -- Sophie’s Taniwha by Rayma Ritchie -- from No-one went to town by Phyllis Johnston -- from When the Kehua calls by Kingi McKinnon -- Ratso by Lorraine Orman -- The Legend of the Kea by Philip Temple -- Pioneers, 1850 by Bernard Gadd -- from I’m telling on you by Sandy McKay -- Mum said it’s late by Pauline Cartwright -- The Apple Tree by Lynley Dodd -- from Porcellus, the flying pig by Judy Corbalis -- Apple by Lauris Edmond -- The fleas eat out by Jane Buxton -- In and out the windows by Peggy Dunstan -- the wind between the stars by Margaret Mahy -- from Drifitng by Patricia Grace -- The sea-child and his kite by Ron Bacon -- Chewing Gum Trip by Diane Hebley -- Annie & Moon by Miriam Smith -- Grandpa’s Shorts by Joy Watson -- Maria and the Money by Rachel McAlpine -- from The World around the corner by Maurice Gee -- Superbrain by John Parker -- index -- acknowledgements.