Showing Tangaroa's gift = Te koha a Tangaroa by Mere Whaanga
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Shortlisted for the Russell Clark Medal, 1991 and for the AIM Picture Book Award, 1991.This is the story of how the paua came to have such a beautiful shell. The text is in Maori and English. Once there lived a sad and lonely sea creature named Paua. Mighty Tangaroa, the god of the sea, felt sorry for Paua and decided to give him a special gift.