Kotahi Rau Pukapuka

08/02/2026

21/12/2025

Reading to children before bed has powerful effects on brain development and emotional health. Dads who read regularly help expand vocabulary at a remarkable pace, while moms who read reduce stress and create a sense of calm. These simple habits support cognitive and emotional growth simultaneously.

Vocabulary growth happens because listening to stories introduces new words and sentence structures. Children learn language patterns, comprehension, and expression through consistent exposure. Even brief daily reading sessions significantly increase the speed at which children acquire words and develop communication skills.

Stress reduction occurs through the comfort and bonding associated with bedtime stories. Hearing a familiar voice, feeling the presence of a parent, and engaging in a predictable routine lowers cortisol, the stress hormone, and supports emotional regulation. This creates a positive environment for both learning and rest.

Small, consistent reading sessions create lasting impacts. They strengthen parent-child connections, improve brain development, and enhance emotional wellbeing. The habit requires little time but provides enormous returns, demonstrating that thoughtful daily interactions are some of the most powerful tools for raising confident, healthy, and resilient children.

23/11/2025

E rere nei te mihi maioha ki CLNZ, nāna i whakawhiwhi pūtea ki a KRP e taea ai e mātou te whakapakari ake te mahi hōmiromiro i ā mātou pukapuka.

Big shout out to CLNZ from whom we received a grant this year to run wānanga with our editors to refine the Editor, Proof reader Guidelines we have developed with AUP.

These are an essential tool to enable editors to fulfil publishing industry standards. Equally, the revised Guidelines ensure the specificities of editing te reo Māori manuscripts are strengthened.

The CLNZ grant also funded individual mentoring by our Pou Reo Pānia Papa of editors working on three upcoming KRP titles - Rangatira, Te Puea and Manaaki.

There are currently no tertiary courses which offer training by practitioners with broad expertise in this field.

Ka nui te mihi Copyright Licensing NZ ❤️🙌🏾

14/11/2025

Nā te ngateri o te reo karakia o Shanara Wallace i whakaputa a Hare Pota me te Pakohu Kura Huna hei pukapuka tekau mā ono mā Kotahi Rau Pukapuka ki te whai ao, ki te ao mārama i te hui o Toitū te Reo ki Heretaunga i te ata nei. Ko te ohu kaiwhakamāori, ko Leon Blake rātou ko Hona Black, ko Donovan Te Ahunui Farnham, ko Helen Parker, ko Paiheretia Aperahama, ko Te Aorangi Murphy-Fell. Ko te tuarua tēnei o ngā pakimaero o te huinga a J.K Rowling e tukuna nei ki te reo Māori ki ōna tini apataki. Tēnei ka mihi ki te hunga tuku huruhuru mai - ki a Te Mātāwai me Foundation North; tae atu ki a AUP nā rātou te pukapuka i tā. Toitū te Reo, tēnā koutou i whakaae kia whakarewaina tā tātou pukapuka i mua i te aroaro o ngā apataki o Te Kura Matarau o Hōwata ki tā tātou hui nui whakaharahara.

06/10/2025

Tau kē!

212 likes, 21 comments. “Introducing one of our tauiwi tauira Harrison! 🎉 Harrison is a tangata kapo (blind person) and lives in Texas here on Turtle Island (USA). We are so grateful to have him in our whānau! His video talks about his Māori language journey as someone who l...

06/10/2025

Hei te 14 o Noema whakarewa ai a Hare Pota me te Pakohu Kura Huna i Toitū te Reo i Heretaunga. Tirohia tā rātou hōtaka e mōhio ai ki ngā taimokamoka.
Hei reira ngā kaiwhakamāori katoa o tā KRP whakaputanga ngahuru mā ono. Ka hokona atu te pukapuka i te whakarewanga 🙌🏾

25/09/2025

E ara rā, e te pukapuka tuangahuru mā rima a Kotahi Rau Pukapuka.

Nō te 24 o Hepetema whakarewahia ai a Matapēhi i roto i te poho manaaki o Ihenga Wharenui i Tangatarua Marae.

I reira rere ai ngā kupu whakamihi ki te tohunga whakamāori, ki te Haumihiata Mason i ngā kaiako o te Kura Reo. Hei tā Te Waihoroi Shortland, ko tēnei kaupapa whakamānawa i Te Haumihiata, he wheako ka whakairotia ki te pūmahara o ngā ākonga - me uaua te kitea, te momo tautōhito e whai ana i ngā tapuwae o ngā mātanga whakamāori o mua pērā i a Pei Te Hurinui Jones.

Ngākaunuitia ana e te minenga te whakaari i tētahi kāpeka nō te Manga 1 e ngā kiriwhakaari - Reikura Kahi (Te Ruahine), Te Okiwa Morgan (Matapēhi), Dallas Hawe (Pākio). Mei kore ake tā koutou hāpai i te whakarewatanga.

Me mihi ka tiki ki Te Mātāwai me CNZ, nā rāua te pūtea tautoko i te whakamāoritanga o Matapēhi. Waihoki nā te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori ā KRP whakarewanga katoa i tautoko i tēnei tau.Tēnā rawa atu koutou

18/09/2025

MATAPĒHI
Kia tineia tēnei rama!
He ātārangi hīkoi te noho ki te ao, he kiripuaki
Ka whakatāmaramara, ka āmaimai i tōna wā ki te atamira
Kua kore te reo e rangona anō: he pakiwaitara
Ka kōrerohia e te heahea, tutū ana te heihei, te puehu,
Mō te kore noa iho te take.

MACBETH
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

17/09/2025

WHAEA MATAPĒHI

Ki te moe, ki te moe! kei te pātōtō tētahi i te tomokanga:
haramai, haramai, homai tō ringa. E kore
a muri e hokia.—Ki te moe, ki te moe, e hoki ki te moe.

LADY MACBETH

To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate:
come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s
done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed!


Manga V
Kāpeka I

17/09/2025

RUAHINE TUATAHI

Takaāmio i te kōhua nui;
Makaia atu ngā terotero kino.
Peketua kei raro kōhatu anu
Ao atu, pō mai, toru tekau mā tahi
E moe ana me te heke o te tōtā kino,
Ko koe te kai tuatahi ki te kōhua nui.

TE KATOA

Rererua, matarua, maikiroa ē;
E mura e te ahi, hū te kōhua nui.

FIRST WITCH

Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.

ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble

15/09/2025

MATAPĒHI

He oka rānei tēnei e kite nei au i mua i a au,
E anga nei te kakau ki taku ringa?

MACBETH

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?

Manga II
Kāpeka I