Pipi and Pou and the Raging Mountain: Pipi and Pou, #1

By Tim Tipene

Pipi and Pou are looking forward to a weekend of screen time but Nana has other ideas. The earth is shaking down south and Nana wants to find out why. Can Pipi and Pou stop the raging mountain carving a destructive path through the forest? And what if success means sharing their secret powers with strangers?

 

Join Pipi, Pou, and Nana - katiaki with a superhero difference - as they journey through the forest, meet amazing friends, and try to calm a mountain before it's too late.

 

A junior fiction series, 8 chapters, with 1-2 black and white images per chapter. Author Tim Tipene who was adopted into the Waitai-Tipene whanau as a toddler. Tim's immediate family were abusive and violent and his childhood was very tough, but since 1994, Tim has been changing lives through his acclaimed Warrior Kids programme, his award-winning books and his inspirational talks. Tim has appeared on television and radio, and in various magazines and newspapers. The series is illustrated by illustrated by Isobel Te Aho-White whose creative work has featured in many of the top Aotearoa New Zealand children's books this year. Hand-drawn patterns carry across all her work as she is inspired by overlapping Māori design with botanical and figurative imagery which show the intersection of cultural narratives from her experience as someone who is of both Māori and Pākehā descent.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: OneTree House Publishers
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990035791

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Recipient of a 2022 Contestable Fund Grant from Copyright Licensing New Zealand

Produced with the support of:

First published by OneTree House Ltd, New Zealand, 2022

Text © Tim Tipene, 2022

Illustration © Isobel Te Aho-White, 2022

978 1 99003522 7 (print)

978 1 99003579 1 (ebook)

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KAITIAKI

Guardians and Protectors of the natural world.

NANA

A kuia and a tohunga, an expert in the natural world, who holds experience and wisdom.

She leads and guides her mokopuna, Pipi and Pou, through their adventures in being kaitiaki.

Nana is also a master chef.

PIPI

When she runs, she flies.

She likes to win and she loves to sing.

With the words, ‘Pouākai, haere mai!’, Pipi transforms into a Pouākai, a giant eagle.

Along with her cousin, Pou, Pipi assists her grandmother, Nana, in caring for and protecting the natural world.

POU

A keen rugby player who also loves being in water and coming first against his cousin.

He is mighty. He is fierce.

When Pou cries, ‘Taniwha, kia kaha!’, he changes into a Taniwha.

Like Pipi and Nana, Pou is a superhero for the environment.

Table of Contents

Tahi

Rua

Toru

Whā

Rima

Ono

Whitu

Waru

Pipi and Pou and the River Monster (Sample Chapter)

Tahi

Tahi

It was morning and Nana was outside in the backyard, hanging wet clothes on the line to dry. Whero, the fat ginger cat, was lying on the grass near her, stretched out in the light and warmth of Tamanuiterā, the sun.

A breeze blew in from the south causing Nana’s long, grey hair to sway. She raised her head, closed her eyes and listened.

‘Haere mai, my moko!’ Nana cried. ‘Bring the car keys, my kete and tokotoko!’

Cousins, Pipi and Pou, knew what that meant. They put down their devices and ran outside.

‘What’s up, Nan?’ Pipi asked.

‘There’s trouble down south,’ replied Nana, quickly pegging the last of the wet socks to the line. ‘The earth’s shaking.’

‘What, like an earthquake?’ Pou queried, arching his back and stretching as though he had just woken up.

‘Kāo,’ Nana grunted.

She put the peg container in the empty laundry basket and carried them over to the back porch.

Pipi looked around. There was no sign of any radio.

‘How do you know what’s going on down south?’ she asked, putting her hands on her hips.

Pipi wanted to be sure that she had been interrupted from her screen for a legitimate reason.

Nana placed the laundry basket down on the table beside the back door and faced her mokopuna.

‘Tāwhiri-mātea just told me,’ she declared.

‘Was he here?’ Pou questioned.

He walked to the corner of the house to check the driveway for any sign of a visiting car.

‘He’s the father of wind, boy!’ Nana frown-ed. ‘He’s not driving around in a BMW!’

Her demeanour softened.

‘His words are in the breeze,’ she proclaimed, gesturing at the air around her with her hands.

‘Right,’ Pipi muttered, sharing a glance with Pou.

It wasn’t unusual for their grandmother to talk to things that others couldn’t see.

Pipi knelt down and patted Whero.

‘I guess we’ll be seeing you later then, puss,’ she said.

The fat cat rolled over showing his underbelly.

Pou followed Nana over to her old car. ‘And it’s not an earthquake?’

‘Kāo,’ Nana repeated. ‘It’s something else, that’s why we need to go and