Kia Kaha: Together Standing Strong

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From singer-songwriter June Pitman-Hayes comes this rousing and fortifying new waiata for Kiwi children from all backgrounds, celebrating the strength in community, with the focus from a childs everyday viewpoint. Features an accompanying CD of the heart-warming song, with its catchy, easy-to-learn melody, sung in English and Mori by June Pitman-Hayes, with harmonies by popular NZ entertainer, Pio Terei. By the creator of the popular Kia Ora You can be a Kiwi too and Twhirimtea A Song for Matariki. Perfectly paired with the charming illustrations of Minky Stapleton, exhibiting diversity in race, culture and ability. Perfect for all the children and whnau of Aotearoa, and universal in its message

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June Pitman-Hayes is a creative writer, singer-songwriter, teacher, lyricist and poet of Ngpuhi, Ngti Wai, Ngti Pkenga and Ngti Maniapoto descent. June is now one of Aotearoas best-known jazz singers, having performed at many events and festivals throughout the country. June has sung on Joy Cowleys Hush: A Kiwi Lullaby and is the author/musician behind Kia Ora You can be a Kiwi Too and Twhirimtea: A Song for Matariki, all Scholastic NZ titles. She lives near Wainui, Auckland.;Minky Stapleton is a multi-faceted illustrator with a range of styles, all with a heavy dash of dark humour. She spent her formative years as an award-winning Art Director and later Creative Director in Johannesburg, working in some of South Africas best advertising agencies. After many years of corporate life, she threw it all in to follow her first love, illustration. She now resides in Auckland, NZ, where she balances a number of local and international illustration projects with running classes for kids on how to design scary monsters.