Pipi and Pou are looking forward to a weekend of screen time but Nana has other ideas. The earth is shaking down south and Nana wants to find out why. Can Pipi and Pou stop the raging mountain carving a destructive path through the forest? And what if success means sharing their secret powers with strangers?
Join Pipi, Pou, and Nana - katiaki with a superhero difference - as they journey through the forest, meet amazing friends, and try to calm a mountain before it's too late.
A junior fiction series, 8 chapters, with 1-2 black and white images per chapter. Author Tim Tipene who was adopted into the Waitai-Tipene whanau as a toddler. Tim's immediate family were abusive and violent and his childhood was very tough, but since 1994, Tim has been changing lives through his acclaimed Warrior Kids programme, his award-winning books and his inspirational talks. Tim has appeared on television and radio, and in various magazines and newspapers. The series is illustrated by illustrated by Isobel Te Aho-White whose creative work has featured in many of the top Aotearoa New Zealand children's books this year. Hand-drawn patterns carry across all her work as she is inspired by overlapping Māori design with botanical and figurative imagery which show the intersection of cultural narratives from her experience as someone who is of both Māori and Pākehā descent.
