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This is a real fantasy trip around the Pacific Islands as Reed retells these beautiful fanciful stories and legends: from New Zealand: The Sky Father and The Earth Mother; The Sea Fairies and Hinemoa and Tutanekai; from Hawaii: The Little People Of Hawaii and The Goddess Of The Volcano; from Tahiti: The Children Who Became Stars; from Samoa: The Sandpiper And The Crab; from Tonga: How Maui Brought Fire To Tonga; from Niue: The Woman Who Was Swallowed By A Whale; from Cook Islands: The Gift Of The Eel God; from Chatham Islands: The Sea Monster; from Fiji: The Giant Bird and The Spirit-That-Changes-People; from the Solomon Islands: The Foolish Canoe Paddlers and Why The Moon Has A Dirty Face; from New Britain: The Wise Brother And The Foolish Brother; from New Guinea: How The Turtle Got Its Shell and The Snake And The Cockatoo; from New Hebrides: Six Men Who Tried To Catch A Sunbeam; from Nauru: Young Spider In The Sky; from Caroline Islands: The Mouse Who Was Hungry; from Marshall Islands: The First Sail; from Paulau Islands: The Boy Who Came From The Sun Egg. Illustrated by Stewart Irwin. -
The son of the chief of Maia Island has taken Ati Manu, a jewelled collar which is their only valuable, to exchange for food for its starving people. Two men follow him through the jungle but he manages to hide the collar in a hollow tree before he is cornered and killed. The Brevitt family take up the search for the valuable collar despite the armed murderers who wait for them in the jungle. They are robbed of vital skin diving equipment and are attacked by sea creatures in their efforts to find Ati Manu and help the natives. Danger stalks the family as they search for the treasure, with plenty of adventures before the hunt ends. Illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. -
Spike Milligan had published volumes of humorous and children's poetry before the 1970s, but Small Dreams of a Scorpion is the first volume to feature some of his most personal and painful musings: partly on his own bouts of clinical depression and hospitalisation; partly about some of his darkest moments as a soldier in World War II; and also about some of the terrible moments of post-war world history and his reactions to them - the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the Aberfan school disaster and the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Illustrated by Spike and Laura Milligan.
