Three Tales of Maui

The book that I read is called 'Three Tales of Maui'. This book was assigned to me by my teacher on the literacy pro app. The book is retold by Cara Torrance and is illustrated by Sonal Goyal.

The book is about a young and mischievous demigod named Maui. It contains three stories. In the first story he hid inside his older brother's boat since he wanted to fish. His brothers arrived and they started rowing with out noticing Maui, when they stopped rowing Maui revealed himself. Maui started to fish with a fishing line that he made himself. Instead of a fish he caught the god of the ocean's whole underwater village.

In the second story he goes to the end of the world to tell the sun god Te Ra to go round the world a bit slower so that the people could do their daily deeds . Te Ra laughed and said no. Now Maui and his brothers went and captured Te Ra and made him move slower. In the third story Maui burnt out all the fires in the village. When everyone noticed that the fire burnt out Maui told them that he would get some. So Maui went to his grandmother the god of fire. He took ten of her fingernails and nine of her toenails. Then his grandmother threw her last toenail at Maui and she raged into a fiery inferno. When Maui returns some fire got on the trees and the villagers found out how to make there own fire.

I enjoyed the book it was interesting. I recommend it to all my friends.

10-11-2020

Michael Gauci

Yr 6.1 Red