Story Book : The Long White Cloud
Author : Christine Lindop
Vocabulary
1.ancestor : a person in your family who lived a long time
2.ashes : what is left something has been destroyed by burning
3.boar : a wild pig
4.burst : to come from somewhere suddenly
5.conoe : a long narrow boat which you move along in the water with paddles
6.china : a fine white clay
7.crest : a design used as the symbol of a family with a long history
8.ditch : a long channel at the side of a road that takes away water
9.genealogy : the record of a family's history
10.gig : a small light carriage pulled by a horse
11.injection : putting a drug into someone's body with a needle
12.longing : a strong feeling of wanting something
13.nod : to move your head up and down to show agreement
14.roar : to make a very load, deed sound
15.sigh : to let out a deep breath to show you are sad,tired,etc
16.fullas : a group of people
17.laying-out pyjamas : pyjamas that are put on a dead body before it is buried
18.district nurse : a nurse who visits people in their home
19.Bible : the holy book of the Christian religion
20.cattle truck : a large vehicle used for carrying cows
Comment and thought
The stories in this book look at life at both ends. First, there is Walter, six years old, always asking questions, wanting to find out things that adults don't want him to know. At the other end of life are Mr and Mrs Blackie, looking for ways to show each other what is in their hearts. Then there is Roy, alone and lonely, roaring into the night on his motorbike. And the fourth story is a Maori family , grandson and grandfather, gathering the whakapapa, the long history of their family. For the Maori people go back many centuries, into the misty past, to the time when the first canoes came over the sea to Aotesroe, the land of the long white cloud.
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