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04 July 2023

Celebrate Matariki with us!

We'd love you to celebrate and learn with us this Matariki - so we're offering an amazing Matariki prize pack of eight pukapuka. Read on to find out how you can enter!

Matariki is almost here, and we can't wait for Aotearoa's most special holiday! 

Celebrate with us by colouring in this picture by the amazing Isobel Joy Te Aho-White and you can be in to win a prize pack of eight Matariki pukapuka.

Enter by either emailing your completed pic to communications@read-nz.org or posting to Facebook/Instagram and tagging us by 5pm July 16. The artist, Izzy, will choose and announce a winner on July 23.

The prize pack includes:

  • Twin Stars of Matariki - Miriama Kamo (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Matariki (board book) - Gavin Bishop (Penguin Books NZ)
  • Matariki Around The World - Rangi Matamua & Miriama Kamo (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Matariki - Kirsten Parkinson & Kitty Brown (Allen & Unwin NZ)
  • How My Koro Became a Star and Kua Whetūrangitia a Koro - Brianne Te Paa (Huia Publishers)
  • The Little Kiwi's Matariki - Nikki Slade-Robinson (David Ling Publishing)
  • Puanga me Matariki (sing-along) - Sharon Holt (EduMaxi NZ)

Be sure to share with the tamariki among your friends and whānau. Happy colouring - and mānawati a Matariki!

Download the colouring image/entry form here.