Penguin Books Australia

Maui wants to know two things: who is his father and where does his mother go during the day? One day he follows her and finds himself in the underworld.

After he is found washed up on the beach as a baby, Maui is brought up by his powerful uncle. But one thing bothers him – other children have mothers, where is his? So Maui goes on a quest to find her. 

Faced with too short days and long nights Maui comes up with a plan to slow the sun's passage through the sky. With the help of his brothers, Maui sets out for the home of the sun to catch it and make it move more slowly.

Peter Gossage's Maui series is well-known and loved. The six titles in the series have been repackaged and redesigned for a new generation of readers, without losing the integrity of the initial artwork. The books follow Maui's birth, his abandonment by his mother and his search for her, his search for his father and discovery and eventual owners of his grandfather's magic jawbone, and his fishing...

Maui Nukarau (the trickster) is forced to go on the hunt for the secret of fire after putting out all the fires on the pa.

After travelling for many miles with just his friends the birds for company, he comes to the volcano where his Aunty Mahuika, the Goddess of Fire, lives. After tricking her out of all her flaming fingernails Maui must take back the secret of fire so no one will go without ever...

Tongariro is forced to battle three strong mountains, Taranaki, Tauhara and Putauaki, to keep his wife, Pihanga, safe from them.
This is the story of how he successfully banishes them to the positions where they stand today.
You can make the mountains using the outlines in the back of this book, and fight your own battle of the mountains!