The Kuia & The Spider

Author: Patricia Grace

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  • : $19.99 NZD
  • : 9780140503876
  • : Penguin Books
  • : Puffin
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  • : 0.132
  • : January 2011
  • : 250mm X 210mm
  • : 21.0
  • : October 1982
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  • : Patricia Grace
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  • : Paperback
  • : reprint
  • : Robyn Kahukiwa
  • : english
  • : good-very good
  • : 32
  • : Colour illustrations
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Barcode 9780140503876
9780140503876

Description

Absorbing New Zealand tale of the Kuia (a grandmother) and the spider. Ideal for reading aloud.

Author description

Patricia Grace has won many awards for her work, including the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and being longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Patricia lives in Plimmerton near Wellington on the ancestral land of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.