Author(s): Irene Webley

Activity Books

This is a creative arts story about three children living in Tonga who want to to help their new friends from New Zealand celebrate their birthday. It is written for primary school children. Readers are invited to contribute to the story themselves with their own drawings and artwork.

This book, written in English, is for primary school readers and for families interested in books that enable their children to use their creative and drawing skills as they read, and in stories that introduce them to Tonga and Tongan family life.

It is a story for primary school children set in Tonga. Readers are invited to join two sisters and their brother, Mele, Amelia and Semisi, as they try to solve the problem of how to help new friends, Tom and Tessa, celebrate their birthday. Tom and Tessa are twins who are in Mele’s class. They have just arrived in Tonga and miss their friends in New Zealand. Mele, Semisi and Amelia work with their parents and teachers to organise the best party ever.

The challenge for readers is to use their creative skills, particularly drawing, to help make this party really wonderful for Tom and Tessa. 32pp.