In celebration of Matariki, we recommend The Seven Stars of Matariki.  This book is available in both English and Te Reo and tells the story of an adventurous young man called Mitai who lives with his seven handsome brothers in the village of Maketu. 

Seven beautiful women bewitch his brothers and, under their spell, they no longer look after themselves or work in their gardens and hunt.  Mitai realizes they are patupaiarehe, fairy folk, and that they need to be cast away.  

This story tells how they end up in the heavens far away from Earth.