The Waka
By (Author) Jean Prior
Illustrated by Gavin Bishop
Scholastic New Zealand Limited
Scholastic New Zealand
19th September 2005
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Winner of Joy Cowley Award 2004
Paperback
32
Based on the traditional counting rhyme of the animals boarding Noah's ark, this version offers a New Zealand perspective, with some of the native animals of Aotearoa being called aboard the waka, a large Maori canoe.