A01=Steph Matuku
A12=Zak Atea
Author_Steph Matuku
Author_Zak Atea
Category=YBCS2
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dreams
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imagination
kereru bird
maori storytelling
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- ISBN 9781849769891
- Dimensions: 225 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Tate Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An amazing building rises on the edge of town – it’s the dream factory. Every night, it sends out magical mist. Flying cars, flower cakes and talking tigers fill the people’s dreams. And the next day the people make those dreams come true.
But when a kereru bird flies into the dream factory, and a feather floats into a cog, everything goes terribly wrong.
Steph Matuku is a writer from Taranaki, New Zealand. She enjoys writing stories for young people, and her work has appeared on the page, stage and screen. In 2021, she was awarded the established Māori writer residency at the Michael King Centre. Zak Ātea is an illustrator and visual artist from New Zealand, now based in Sydney, Australia. Her practice involves digital and traditional painting and drawing mediums. Through her work she explores the intangibles of our world, and the complexities of self within both a worldly and Te Ao Māori lens with a focus on colour, texture and multimedia practises.
