- Malia Shares
Malia loves to share with everyone! Malia teaches us the days of the week in Samoan while showing us how to share with others.
This story explores the concept of sharing with others, allowing for social learning opportunities and connections to be made. The integration of the Gagana Sāmoa focus, days of the week in Samoan, throughout the text allows the reader to safely explore the words and develop understanding. A rich text complimented by detailed illustrations that encourage good opportunities for further questioning and discussion.
$20.00165x165mm18pp
- Lagi Spies
Lagi always enjoys playing games with her friends. Lagi teaches us colours in Samoan while playing a fun game of ‘I spy’.
This playful story captures the fun of playing the popular children’s game ‘I Spy’. The integration of the Gagana Sāmoa focus, colours in Samoan, throughout the text allows the reader to safely explore the words and develop understanding. A highly visual text which encourages discussion and specific focus on the different lanu featured in the story.
$20.00165x165mm18pp
- Mase's Room
Mase’s room is always messy and needs tidying up. Mase teaches us how to count in Samoan while taking us on his journey of cleaning up his bedroom.
This story reflects on children’s experiences of cleaning their own room, allowing for meaningful social learning connections to be made. The integration of the Gagana Sāmoa focus, counting in Samoan, throughout the text allows the reader to safely explore the words and develop understanding. The story also contains simply constructed text with rich Illustrations that encourage good opportunities for discussion.
$20.00165x165mm18pp - Polynesian Festival & Pacific Auckland
Buy Polynesian Festival and Pacific Auckland as a discounted set.
$25.00239mm (H) x 288mm (W) x 25mm (D)210pp
- Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays – Book LaunchSpecial Price!
Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays is a timely collection from five playwrights who interweave Pacific languages with English. Masters in the art of comedy and real-life theatre, these contemporary voices shine a light on the lives of Pacific peoples, their culture and identity in New Zealand.
$25.00218pp
- Uncle TinoUncle Tino
James and Jessie are embarrassed by Uncle Tino’s old car and the way he honks the horn so loudly when he drives them to school. But when the Sāmoan culture group needs help to prepare for the end of year concert, it turns out that Uncle Tino is full of surprises.
A story about being yourself and standing out from the crowd.
$25.00216 x 21636pp
- Tino, le tuagane a le ma tinā
James and Jessie are embarrassed by Uncle Tino’s old car and the way he honks the horn so loudly when he drives them to school. But when the Sāmoan culture group needs help to prepare for the end of year concert, it turns out that Uncle Tino is full of surprises.
A story about being yourself and standing out from the crowd.
Sāmoan language edition
$25.00216 x 21636pp
- Visiting GrandmaVisiting Grandma
A children's picture book about a Sāmoan family set in New Zealand from the perspective of a pakeha girl. A normal event in one culture may seem odd to another culture. But when pakeha Rachel goes with her new Sāmoan friend Luisa to visit her grandmother, it’s not quite what Rachel expects. A touching story about honouring your loved ones. With detailed illustrations by Azra Pinder-Pancho.
$25.00216 x 21636pp
- Pacific Journalism Review: 17/2 (October 2011)Media, cultural diversity and community
The killing and abduction of journalists in West Papua has been highlighted in a special new report on Pacific media freedom over the past year by Pacific Journalism Review.
“By far the most serious case of media freedom violations in the Pacific is in Indonesian-ruled West Papua—far from public scrutiny,” says the journal in an editorial.
The 39-page report on the state of media freedom in the Pacific in 2011 notes that in August, in particular, “sustained repression has also hit the news media and journalists”.
At least two journalists have been killed in West Papua, five abducted and 18 assaulted in the past year.
West Papua has replaced Fiji as the most urgent media freedom issue in the region, says the journal. The report has been published just as regional protests have been voiced over the brutal suppression of a strike at the giant Freeport copper mine in the past week in which at least one person was reported shot dead.
This free media report, compiled by Pacific Media Watch contributing editor Alex Perrottet and Pacific Media Centre director Dr David Robie with a team of contributors, including West Papua Media editor Nick Chesterfield, is the most comprehensive and robust media freedom dossier published in recent years.
This edition of PJR is themed on “Media, cultural diversity and community”, and includes articles on Australia’s Reporting Diversity Project, the Yumi Piksa community television project in Papua New Guinea, a study of the use of te reo Māori by Fairfax-owned Suburban Newspapers in New Zealand by the Te Rōpu Whariki research team, reporting of Islam in Australia, the Australian country press, and the development of a cross-cultural communications degree in Oman by a New Zealand university.
$27.00240pp
- Pacific Journalism Review: 18/2 (October 2012)Rebuilding Public Trust in Journalism
Online media business models will succeed only if news organisations put more effort into regaining public trust, says Pacific Journalism Review in its latest edition.
In an issue devoted to the Leveson inquiry into Britain’s News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Finkelstein and Convergence reports on the Australian news industry, the research journal has questioned the “increasingly desperate” search for a business model.
“Is the new model the only answer to the current plight of journalism?” writes edition editor Dr Johan Lidberg from Monash University in Melbourne.
“Are media proprietors paying enough attention to the fact that the business model is built on the public trusting the journalistic practices that sit at the heart of the media brands?”
It is as important to retain public trust in journalism and to rebuild lost trust as the quest to make online journalism pay, Lidberg writes.
“Indeed, without, or with low, public trust in news media, will online journalism ever pay enough to sustain quality journalism?” he asks.
One important tool to retain and rebuild trust in any professional practice is openness and accountability.$27.00224pp
