How Many Times?
Me Hia Rawa Ngā Wā?
Tim Tipene
Illustrated by Nicoletta Benella
Award-winning author shares bilingual tale of how words can teach kids to help around the house
'How many times do I have to ask?’
That’s a question lots of parents have to put to their kids, after many other requests for help around the house.
In Tim Tipene’s story, Tammy and Luca are always busy with screens and games to hear Mum asking them to do chores.
That’s until Mum’s words come to life and take over the house, pinning Grandpa to his chair and launching the kids into action.
How Many Times? Me Hia Rawa Ngā Wā? is out in bookstores ahead of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week 2025.
A teacher resource is available on the Oratia Books website.
The authors
Tim Tipene (Ngāti Kurī, Te Uri-o-Hau, Ngāti Whātua) is a pioneering youth counsellor and an award-winning author of children’s books, including Kura Toa Warrior School and Rona Moon. His Te Pukapuka ka Kore e Pānuihia was shortlisted for the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Tim lives with his whānau in Rānui, West Auckland.
Nicoletta Benella is an artist originally from north-eastern Italy, where she was a designer for fashion house Benetton. Among her other illustrations are for Tim’s The Book that Wouldn’t Read / Te Pukapuka ka Kore e Pānuihia. Nicoletta lives with her family in Hatfields Beach, Auckland.
Kanapu Rangitauira (Te Arawa, Ngāti Porou, Te Whakatōhea) is a registered translator and teacher of te reo. Among other translations Kanapu has completed for Tim's books are Te Pukapuka ka Kore e Pānuihia and The Ever-Standing Tree / Te Rākau Tū Tonu. He lives with his whānau in Rotorua.
Publication: 4 September 2025 | ISBN: 978-1-99-004281-2 | RRP $22.99
Paperback, 270 x 210 mm portrait, 32 pages, colour
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