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Hello Girls & Boys!
David Veart
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Description for Hello Girls & Boys!
Hardcover. Knucklebones and Double Happys. Golliwogs and Tin canoes. Joy Toys and NuCraze, Marbles and Mecca Lumve bears, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees. Hello Girls and Boys! tells the remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to computer gamers. Num Pages: 277 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBJM; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Knucklebones and Double Happys. Golliwogs and Tin canoes. Joy Toys and NuCraze, Marbles and Meccano. Lumve bears, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees. Hello Girls and Boys! tells the remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from M?ori voyagers to computer gamers. David Veart's story is a big one about how our two peoples have made their fun on the far side of the ocean - Maori and Pakeha learning knucklebones from each other, young Aucklanders establishing the largest Meccano club in the world, Fun Ho! and Torro, Lincoln and Luvme establishing a successful local toy industry under the ... Read more
Knucklebones and Double Happys. Golliwogs and Tin canoes. Joy Toys and NuCraze, Marbles and Meccano. Lumve bears, Tonka trucks and Buzzy Bees. Hello Girls and Boys! tells the remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from M?ori voyagers to computer gamers. David Veart's story is a big one about how our two peoples have made their fun on the far side of the ocean - Maori and Pakeha learning knucklebones from each other, young Aucklanders establishing the largest Meccano club in the world, Fun Ho! and Torro, Lincoln and Luvme establishing a successful local toy industry under the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Auckland University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869408213
SKU
V9781869408213
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About David Veart
Trained as an anthropologist, David Veart worked as a Department of Conservation historian and archaeologist for over twenty-five years. Veart is author of First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking(AUP, 2008) and Digging up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious (AUP, 2011). He is the proud owner of Donald Cranko's fire-belching 'Mighty Atom' toy steam ... Read more
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