A Heritage Christmas

Sarona Aiono-Iosefa. Two cans of corned beef and a manulele in a mango tree: a Pacific Christmas. Auckland: Reed, 2004.

This case contains Southern Hemisphere variations upon traditional Northern Hemisphere Christmas themes: New Zealand and Pacific versions of the popular Christmas song ‘The twelve days of Christmas,’ and a retelling of Clement Clarke Moore’s ‘Night before Christmas’ with a Kiwi flavour.

Sarona Aiono-Iosefa. Two cans of corned beef and a manulele in a mango tree: a Pacific Christmas. Auckland: Reed, 2004.
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Yvonne Morrison. A kiwi night before Christmas. Auckland: Scholastic, 2003.

Yvonne Morrison. A kiwi night before Christmas. Auckland: Scholastic, 2003.
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Kingi M. Ihaka. A pukeko in a ponga tree: (The twelve days of Christmas). Auckland: Heinemann, 1981.

Kingi M. Ihaka. A pukeko in a ponga tree: (The twelve days of Christmas). Auckland: Heinemann, 1981.
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