During my week of leave, the family visited Port Chalmers for a day trip. At the library there I explored the children's Maori language section.
I like that they have a number of bilingual stories, with the English and Maori equivalents on adjacent pages. That's a useful set-up. But what I don't find useful is when the writer goes all literary on the reader and tries to impress with long flowery convoluted sentences. I say that it shouldn't be about trying to impress the parents!
Anyway, I got out three books. I 'dove' straight into The Singing Dolphin when we got home.
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