Description

What Are You Made Of?

Taku Tinana, Taku Oranga — A Science Poetry Book

By Loredana Podolska-Kint

What Are You Made Of? Taku Tinana, Taku Oranga contains 21 educational poems about the parts of the body. It takes readers on a journey around the human body, from the brain to the bones, describing how each part works, and including the te reo Māori term for each organ. Children will enjoy discovering how the organs work together to make them unique and amazing individuals.

This book has received positive feedback from children, teachers, librarians, and hospital play therapists.

 

PLEASE NOTE: This book is currently not available and orders will once again be shipped from November 2023. If you wish to order a book before then, please refer to the below bookstores.

 

Written by a New Zealand medical student, this book blends science and poetry, and is the first of its kind. The poems are fact-filled and fun, and range from traditional rhymes, to haiku, to shape poems. This book is a great addition to any curious child’s bookshelf.

This book is a passion project made possible by a Blackbird Foundation Wildheart Protostars Microgrant.

Product Specifications:

ISBN 978-0-473-61674-8.
Softcover.
46pp. 21 poems and colour illustrations.
Printed in New Zealand by The CopyPress.

Released in March 2022.

 

Also available from:

The Womens Bookshop (online only)

Ubiq (in-store only)

Little Unity

The Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop

Real NZ Books (online)

The WAYMO Project:

To donate a copy to a low-decile New Zealand primary school via The WAYMO Project:

1. Add What Are You Made Of? to the cart.
2. Proceed to checkout and fill in your details and shipping details as usual.
3. Tick the checkbox to notify that you would like to donate this copy to The WAYMO Project. Optional: if you are purchasing more than one copy, fill in the field to specify how many copies you would like to donate (the rest will be shipped to you).
4. Please note that donated copies will not be shipped to you. They will go directly to a randomly-selected low-decile primary school in New Zealand.
5. Optional: tick the checkbox if you would like your name to be acknowledged on a donation sticker on the inside of the book. If you do not tick this, the donor will be acknowledged as “Anonymous.”
6. Once you complete the payment, you will receive a thank you email and digital certificate within the next few days, and an email update on when and where the donated book is being sent during the next few weeks.

Read the story behind The WAYMO Project here.