Book of the Week. Gavin Bishop's distinctively beautiful and informative book Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes has just been awarded the premier Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. 

Before the beginning there was nothing. No sound, no air, no colour—nothing. TE KORE, NOTHING. No one knows how long this nothing lasted because there was no time. However, in this great nothing there was a sense of waiting. Something was about to happen.
This wonderful large-format book belongs on every child's—and every adult's—bookshelf. From creation to migration, lively illustrations and text tell the unique stories of Aotearoa's gods, demigods and heroes.  
>>Your copy (or one to give away)—more stock will arrive in a few days. 

>>Book trailer. 

>>Seventy books later. 

>>Bishop's winning move. 
>>Old friends in our home. >>Cleaning up. 

>>Meet Gavin Bishop. 

>>His own place in the world. 
>>The book belongs alongside the wonderful Aotearoa: The New Zealand story and Wildlife of Aotearoa.

>>Some other books by Gavin Bishop. They are all wonderful. 

>>Other winners in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.