Kids into books: The Story of the Kakapo

Author: Philip Temple

Illustrator: Chris Gaskin

Publisher: Longacre Press, $14.95

Age Group: 6-10 years


Early on a winter morning, Tutueka set out as usual to gather food for her chicks.

They were now fully grown and she was tired and thin from many months of feeding and caring for them.

Again she climbed high to gather the last wrinkled berries in a rimu tree.