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I often walk to or from work. (It's a bit of a stretch doing both.)

So yesterday I browsed through an entire bilingual book. Kamatekapua by Aunty Bea. It is at an intermediate level and was long enough to last the entire distance. My first time too to find a typo in Maori that I could correct!

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In the public library, I discovered what I consider the best resource so far. It is multimedia and bilingual. Its level of te reo is 'Globish'. Its length is just right. And there are about a dozen more by the same author.

The book's title is Ihenga, written, narrated, sung, and composed by Piatarihi Tui Yates (Aunty Bea).

The book comes with a CD that features additional songs. You can also listen to the narrative in both English and Maori. 

I find that after a month of perusing the Maori language I am able to follow along quite nicely to the spoken Maori version, glancing across to the English to confirm. 

I tried to contact the author to say how useful I find her material, but discovered that she passed away a few years ago. Rest in peace, Aunty Bea.