Lopini the Legend
Author:
Lopini the Legend
Publisher:
Scholastic NZ
ISBN:
9781775437895
Date published:
01 June 2023
Pages:
176
Format:
Paperback
RRP:
$20.99
When Lopini is replaced as kapa haka leader at school, he starts to spiral. It doesn't matter that he thinks it's a good idea, or that he agreed to the change in the first place. He's a hard-out perfectionist and this feels like a public failure.
Lopini's best mate, Fi, thinks he's overreacting. After all, he's so successful that everyone at school calls him Lopini the Legend. But Lopini still freaks out whenever something goes wrong - and he HATES it.
He decides to practise failing, so he won't feel like that anymore. Can Lopini still be a legend, if everyone knows he isn't perfect?
About the author:
Feana Tu‘akoi is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, with a background in educational publishing. She has more than 230 titles to her name, ranging from poems to plays to articles to books, and her work has appeared in anthologies, on radio and in most media forms. Her books for children have been translated into various languages, from Samoan to Spanish. She is the author of the highly successful What Is A...? science series for children, which is also available in te reo Māori. Lopini the Legend, Tu‘akoi’s junior fiction manuscript, won the 2022 Storylines Tom Fitzgibbon Award.
