New Releases

We are delighted to announce the release of two new books. They are both available now from most online book sellers as well as here at this website and for the first time you can buy an ebook edition from your favourite online book seller. Print copies only are available from this website and from Amazon at this stage.

Our first new book is the second reader in the Mālo Hihifo series. It is designed for young people learning Tongan and wishing to improve their fluency in the language. In Getting My Licence / Laiseni faka’uli, Tapani tells the story of how he learnt to drive as a teenager in New Zealand doing his apprenticeship and the near catastrophe of his licence test that convinced him he was going to fail. It is very funny. It is a bilingual English/Tongan edition in parallel text and presented in large print for ease of reference from one language to the other.

Recommended for teenagers and older students and we’re confident that parents and grandparents will also enjoy it.

We are pleased to also announce the release of Irene’s new book for primary school children. The Easter Egg Solution is an Easter story based in Tonga. It tells the story of how three children, Mele, Amelia and Semisi, solve the problem of how to have a family celebration when their father away working in New Zealand has to tell them he hasn’t been able to send the chocolate Easter eggs he’d promised. Readers will discover how the children decide amongst different options and then only days before Easter how they resolve the crisis that blows up out of nowhere threatening their solution.

Recommended for children 8-10 years old who enjoy chapter books and for younger children who love to have stories read to them. This is an English language edition only.

Update - Hele’uhila Tokonaki / Saturday Movies

We are releasing a revised edition of Mālō Hihifo 1: Saturday Movies / Hele’uhila Tokonaki. It has been reformatted into a chapter book, like Mālō Hihifo 2: Getting my licence / Laiseni faka’uli.

This new format, now standard for this series, has a large font with matching English and Tongan paragraphs on the same page. Pages are spaced for easy reading.

Update - Laipeli / Ebooks

We have begun the process of converting our books into ebooks with the new books we’ve just released. Others will follow progressively. We will update you as we add more of our books.

The solution we have chosen means that you will be able to buy your own copy of our ebooks. In addition we are providing them FREE to the ebook services that schools in New Zealand and Australia use.

Laipeli

Our ebooks will be made available to schools for unlimited reading. This is a new service still under development.

Ngāhi Pale

When you want a present for your grandchild, or for a special family member or colleague, choose a book that will interest them and reflect their heritage.

Fa’u Tohi

Everyone knows how hard it is to write your own story, particularly if it’s your first time. We help with practical tips about writing and publishing. This is a new area for Puletau Publishing and we plan to expand this service in response to your needs.

Koloa Foaki

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