Winner of two copies of The Seven Stars of Matariki - one in English and one in Te Reo

Our feature story last week in our e-newsletter The Read was about Māori publishing. To support that story, and in celebration of Matariki, Huia Publishers gave us two Matariki books to give away.

Both books are the same story but one is in English and the other in Te Reo. We used a random number generator to find our winner and say congratulations to:

Winner Katrina Chantler whose favourite Māori word is: Hari/Hari-Hari, which means happy/joy. She's keen to get her five year old daughter into reading.

About the story
An adventurous young man called Mitai lives with his seven handsome brothers in the village of Maketu.

He watches his brothers become bewitched by seven beautiful women, and under their spell, the brothers no longer eat, look after themselves, work in their gardens or hunt. Realising the women are patupaiarehe, fairy women, he knows they must be cast far away.

They are given to Urutengangana, the god of the stars, and he places the patupaiarehe in the heavens farthest from the earth. Yet once a year, at winter solstice, he allows their beauty to shine in the eastern sky.