Talanoa Books

24/08/2024

24/08/2024

Mouse had good time at the Te Manawa Indie Writers Festival's Book Fair !! 🐋 Public Libraries are cool 😎 You can find our books in the libraries! Or you are most welcome to buy them too!
Te Manawa
Island Fables

18/09/2022

Super Excited!! We are finally launching our project: To Enlarge and Enrich a New Zealand Child's World with Classic Tales. With help of a grant given by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, we have printed off a small quantity of Island Fables Ko Kumā Mo Feke, in a hardcover format for durability, to be gifted to different educational communities throughout Aotearoa.
Mail out has begun 🥳

16/10/2020

Happening tomorrow! Come along, need only your imagination 🙂
Hamilton Book Month Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

Sorting out your weekend plans? We recommend a visit to Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato on Sunday at 12.30pm for our Lisala Halapua illustration workshop! Lisala will read his picture books which are retellings of Tongan fables and talk about how he wrote and illustrated them. We'll then have a free illustration workshop for 5-10 year olds. All welcome.

13/10/2020

🎧 Thanks Kelli from the Tron for the interest and nice interview!

Podcast 🎧 http://bit.do/Lisala-Halapua

Knowledge for food gathering and survival in local environs was traditionally passed down through conversation from one generation to the next. Author and Illustrator Lisala Halapua has retold some traditional Tongan stories in a series now available through Talanoa Books and a bookstore near you.

This morning he joined me on Free FM to talk about his background, the process of retelling these stories, being a finalist for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (2017) and his upcoming (better late than never) Hamilton Book Month event.

Lisala Halapua illustration workshop is an hour of story and creativity especially for 5-10 year olds. It's a free event at the Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. You can meet him there - 12.30-1.30pm Sunday the 18th October.

Illustration pictured from The Mouse and the Octopus.

12/10/2020

Event happening this Sunday!

We are excited to announce that Lisala Halapua's illustration workshop has been rescheduled to Sunday October 18th at 12.30pm at Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. This free Hamilton Book Month will be of interest to anyone wanting to write and illustrate a picture book, hear Tongan fables and learn some illustration techniques. Come and hear Tongan picture book author and illustrator Lisala talk about The Mouse and the Octopus, The Worm and the Whale and The Mouse and the Ant. These books are part of a series of Island fables. All welcome and all materials supplied, no registration required.

13/09/2020

An article from Sela Jane Hopgood @ RNZ !
Malō aupito 👏

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/425965/old-tongan-fable-revisited-by-a-father-and-son-duo

A father and son have teamed up to produce their first bilingual book of an old Tongan fable.

06/09/2020

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06/09/2020

06/09/2020