Shortlisted for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Non-Illustrated Book 2015 and PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Cover 2015.

Renowned Ngapuhi elder Hone Pereki Sadler (Ngapuhi, Ngati Moerewa) was born in 1950 and grew up at the feet of his elders in the Tautoro Valley in Northland. He spoke only Maori until he went to school. He was educated at Northland College, Kaikohe, and then worked as a shearer and in forestry before training as a secondary school teacher. He has taught at Northland Polytechnic, where he taught Maori language before becoming HoD Maori Studies and then HoD Arts, and is now a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, teaching Maori language, oral literature and Matauranga Maori. He has a Masters of Matauranga Maori from the Wananga o Raukawa (writing his thesis on 'Wahine Rangatira o Ngapuhi, Te Tu o te Wahine i roto o Ngapuhi') and has also written on Maori knowledge, treaty claims and ancient funeral lore. Sadler is celebrated Maori orator, passionate about reviving the Maori language, which he believes must start in the home. He is well-known for his work in treaty claims and is turning his account of the origins, history and culture of the Ngapuhi people, presented in support of the Ngapuhi treaty claim, into a book, Ko Tautoro, Te pito o Toku Ao: A Ngapuhi Narrative (Auckland University Press, August 2014). He has been a member of Te Ara Wananga, which provides advice on the nature of Maori content in Te Ara / Encyclopedia of New Zealand, and a member of the Board of the James Henare Centre.