Books Kuma is a Maori Girl by Dennis Hodgson and Pat Lawson. Hicks, Smith and Sons 8/6 This book for children is about Kuma, a little Maori girl who lives in Auckland with her family. The story is told mostly through photographs. We see her doing all the things that children do—playing football with her father, going to the zoo, swimming, going to school, and so on. Then she goes to Rotorua for a holiday with her grandmother, and looks at some of Rotorua's ‘sights’. ‘Kuma is a Maori Girl’ is realistic and convincing, showing Maoris as they really are. For example, when Kuma visits Rotorua she goes to see the village at the model pa at Whakarewarewa; but the story does not pretend that she lives in a house like these. It has already shown that she lives in the same sort of house as anyone else. This is one of the very few good books for children which have been written in New Zealand. Probably it is the best story so far written about Maori children.
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Te Ao Hou, March 1962, Page 52
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178Books Kuma is a Maori Girl Te Ao Hou, March 1962, Page 52
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