Long, long ago, when the world was new and strange, the sun decided to start racing across the sky. But on Earth, everyone was far from happy! The days were so short and there was no time to get anything done! People moaned. People grumbled. People complained. 'Someone ought to do something!' But no one did...until Maui came along with a plan!

* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

* Text type - A play based on a traditional Maori legend.

* Curriculum links - PE: Dance activities.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Emerald Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Dee White wanted to be a writer since she was 7 years old, and has published 16 books for children and young adults. She is also a certified writing teacher and mentor. Tracie Grimwood graduated from Swinburne University with a degree in graphic design and has worked as an illustrator ever since. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.