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Genre/Form: | Children's stories, New Zealand |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gavin Bishop |
ISBN: | 9781877467608 187746760X |
OCLC Number: | 757148865 |
Awards: | Winner of New Zealand Post Book Awards: Book of the Year 2000 Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Picture Book 2000 Short-listed for Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2000 |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm |
Responsibility: | by Gavin Bishop. |
Abstract:
Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th century. Includes references to Maori folklore. A sophisticated picture book. Suggested level: junior, primary.
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