{"id":21029,"date":"2013-06-20T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2013-06-16T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T07:43:12","slug":"what-im-reading-battle-of-the-birds-by-lee-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/what-im-reading-battle-of-the-birds-by-lee-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Reading: &#8220;Battle Of the Birds&#8221; By Lee Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/what-im-reading-battle-of-the-birds-by-lee-murray\/battle-of-the-birds\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21030\" title=\"Battle of the Birds\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Battle-of-the-Birds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Battle-of-the-Birds.jpg 175w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Battle-of-the-Birds-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a>Battle of the Birds <\/strong>(Te Pakanga O Nga Manu)<\/em>, by Tauranga author, Lee Murray, won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffanz.org.nz\/sjv\/sjvResults-2012.html\">Sir Julius Vogel Award <\/a>for Best Youth Novel in 2012, so as you can tell this is a long overdue read&#8212;but a fun one.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s novel is Junior fiction, and I am enjoying its weaving together of traditional Maori folklore and New Zealand&#8217;s natural history, into an adventurous story involving three young protagonists, Annie, Moana, and Kahurangi. There is also a nice overlay into North Amercian folklore associated with the beginning of Annie&#8217;s adventure in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun, adventurous story, with quirky illustrations that I feel will appeal to children in<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13997\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/natcon-fun-the-sir-julius-vogel-awards\/natcon-day-2-061a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13997\" class=\" wp-image-13997  \" title=\"Natcon Day 2 061a\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Natcon-Day-2-061a-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Natcon-Day-2-061a-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Natcon-Day-2-061a-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Natcon-Day-2-061a.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Murray with the Sir Julius Vogel Award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>the 8-11 year old age range.\u00a0 I also very much like the cover art by Vonnie Sterritt.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the book from <a href=\"http:\/\/taramea.maori.nz\/index.html\">Taramea Publishing<\/a>, click on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/taramea.maori.nz\/html\/aboutlee.html\">Battle Of The Birds<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of the Birds (Te Pakanga O Nga Manu), by Tauranga author, Lee Murray, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel in 2012, so as you can tell this is a long overdue read&#8212;but a fun one. Lee&#8217;s novel is Junior fiction, and I am enjoying its weaving together of traditional Maori [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21039,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}