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    PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children
    PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children
    PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children
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    PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children

    By Isabel Maud Peacocke and Illustrated By TREVOR LLOYD

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    Simply reading a list of plant names from a book and trying to memorise them is boring to children. But, if that learning is made fun, children are more likely to retain what they have learned. Herein are 6 of the most important plants in New Zealand which are explained to them by the Piccaninnies, the wee bush folk who live in New Zealand’s forests and how they interact with the flora around them. So,

    If your heart is pure, and your eyes are clear,
    And you come the one right day of the year,
    And eat of the fruit of the Magic Tree
    The wee Bush Folk you will surely see.

    In this book children will learn about flowers and trees which are native to New Zealand. Children will learn both the Western name and the Maori name for the plants. The plants they will be taught about are:
    The New Zealand Christmas Tree,
    Clematis,
    The Cabbage palm
    The Tea tree,
    The Kowhai blossom,
    The Hoheria blossom, and;
    The Great Red Enemy

    So, we invite you to download and read this fun and happy book about the small folk of the New Zealand forests and the plants and flowers the live with and use every day.

    10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: folklore, fairy tales, fairytales, legends, myths, children’s stories, fables, bedtime stories, allegories, Fairies Story Hour, childrens books, pixies, pixy, piccaninnies, bush folk, New Zealand, Aotearoa, New Zealand Christmas Tree, Pohutukawa, Clematis, Puawhananga, Cabbage palm, cabbage tree, tī kouka, Tea tree, Manuka, Kowhai blossom, Hoheria blossom, Houhere, great red enemy, fire, plants, trees, flowers, forests
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateNov 21, 2018
    ISBN9788829555833
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      PICCANINNIES - The flora of New Zealand explained for Children - Isabel Maud Peacocke

      Piccaninnies

      BY

      Isabel Maud Peacocke

      Author of Songs of the Happy Isles. My Friend Phil. Robin of the Round House. The Bonny Books of Humorous Verse, etc.

      Illustrated by

      Trevor Lloyd

      Originally Published By

      Whitcombe & Tombs Limited,

      Christchurch

      [1920]

      Resurrected by

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2018]

      Piccaninnies

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2018

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London

      United Kingdom

      2018

      ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

      email:

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      They made strings of the scarlet nikau berries, and hung them round their necks.

      Dedication

      DEDICATED

      TO

      MY LITTLE GOD-DAUGHTER

      JOAN LUSK

      TE KUITI, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

      Contents

      CHRISTMAS TREE

      CLEMATIS

      CABBAGE PALM

      TEA TREE

      KOWHAI BLOSSOM

      HOHERIA BLOSSOM

      THE GREAT RED ENEMY

      f your heart is pure, and your eyes are clear,

      And you come the one right day of the year,

      And eat of the fruit of the Magic Tree

      The wee Bush Folk you will surely see.

      In the green and woody places,

      Thickets shady, sunlit spaces,

      Have you never heard us calling,

      When the golden eve is falling—

      When the noon-day sun is beaming—

      When the silver moon is gleaming?

      Have you never seen us dancing—

      Through the mossy tree-boles glancing?

      Have you never caught us gliding

      Through the tall ferns? laughing—hiding?

      We are here, we are there—

      We are everywhere;

      Swinging on the tree tops, floating in the air;

      Hush! Hush! Hush!

      Creep into the Bush,

      You will find us everywhere.

      f you would see,

      First bathe your eyes,

      In dew that lies

      On the bracken tree.

      If you would hear

      Our elfin mirth

      To Mother Earth

      Lay down your ear.

      A-many have come with their bright eyes clear,

      And their young hearts pure, but—alas! Oh dear!

      They've made a mistake in the

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