PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children E-Book

Illustrated By TREVOR LLOYD

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Simply reading a list of plant names from a book and trying to memorise them is boring to children. But, if that learning is made fun, children are more likely to retain what they have learned. Herein are 6 of the most important plants in New Zealand which are explained to them by the Piccaninnies, the wee bush folk who live in New Zealand’s forests and how they interact with the flora around them. So,

If your heart is pure, and your eyes are clear,
And you come the one right day of the year,
And eat of the fruit of the Magic Tree
The wee Bush Folk you will surely see.

In this book children will learn about flowers and trees which are native to New Zealand. Children will learn both the Western name and the Maori name for the plants. The plants they will be taught about are:
The New Zealand Christmas Tree,
Clematis,
The Cabbage palm
The Tea tree,
The Kowhai blossom,
The Hoheria blossom, and;
The Great Red Enemy

So, we invite you to download and read this fun and happy book about the small folk of the New Zealand forests and the plants and flowers the live with and use every day.

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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Leseprobe

Piccaninnies

BY

Isabel Maud Peacocke

Author of "Songs of the Happy Isles." "My Friend Phil." "Robin of the Round House." "The Bonny Books of Humorous Verse," etc.

Illustrated by

Trevor Lloyd

Originally Published By

Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, Christchurch

[1920]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London[2018]

Piccaninnies

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

email:

[email protected]

Website

www.AbelaPublishing.com

"They made strings of the scarlet nikau berries, and hung them round their necks."

Dedication

DEDICATEDTOMY LITTLE GOD-DAUGHTERJOAN LUSKTE KUITI, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Contents

CHRISTMAS TREE

CLEMATIS

CABBAGE PALM

TEA TREE

KOWHAI BLOSSOM

HOHERIA BLOSSOM

THE GREAT RED ENEMY

f your heart is pure, and your eyes are clear,And you come the one right day of the year,And eat of the fruit of the Magic TreeThe wee Bush Folk you will surely see.

In the green and woody places,Thickets shady, sunlit spaces,Have you never heard us calling,When the golden eve is falling—When the noon-day sun is beaming—When the silver moon is gleaming?Have you never seen us dancing—Through the mossy tree-boles glancing?Have you never caught us glidingThrough the tall ferns? laughing—hiding?We are here, we are there—We are everywhere;Swinging on the tree tops, floating in the air;Hush! Hush! Hush!Creep into the Bush,You will find us everywhere.

f you would see,First bathe your eyes,In dew that liesOn the bracken tree.