Bilingual book about Matariki - its origins, traditions and how it is celebrated today. The constellation is also shown. The little Kiwi is fast asleep and a beam of moonlight shines right down into her burrow. She wakes, and realises it is time. Hurrying out into the night, she wakes each of her friends from their mid-winter slumber. Kia tere! Hurry! she urges them.