October Kiwi Kids Books: Day Six

Share a New Zealand book for children or teens: that is part of a series. 

The May series 
Author: Phyllis Johnston. 

1. No one went to town. Illustrated by Christine Brown, with maps by Ernest Papps. Price Milburn, 1980. 
2. Black boots and buttonhooks. Illustrated by Erneset Papps. Price Milburn, 1982. 
3. A comet in the sky. Illustrated by Adriana Tuscia. The Tauranga Moana Press, 1985. 
4. No lily-livered girl. Waiatarua Publishing, 1993. 
5. The fortunate ones. The Phyllis Webby Trust, 2018. 

Old classics. The sort of books we grew up reading, but are not in fashion now.

However, there's something to be said for reading about our history, through the tales passed on.

If I was sharing these with young readers today, I would try to balance with books from a te ao Māori perspective. Or, at least start a discussion. 

Tales of our pioneering forebears, tends to gloss over / romanticise the dispossession and subjugation that comes with colonisation.