Looking Good – Keeping clean, the traditional way – Pacific Nations

Description

Before soaps and modern cleaners were available in the Pacific Nations, the people used special plants that they found in their environment to help keep them clean.

About the Author
Jill MacGregor is a New Zealand teacher and curriculum writer who travelled extensively throughout the Pacific. Through her work in schools, she recognised the need for books that reflected the real lives of Pacific children. Jill began documenting children’s stories, photographing their homes, schools, and communities, and sharing them through simple, first-person narratives. Her work became the Children of the Pacific series, which continues to be widely used in New Zealand classrooms and libraries.