Retell: Rona and the Moon

Rona and the Moon

Retold by Naomi (in Room 6 at PES).

 Rona was a beautiful woman who lived with her husband and her children . Rona's husband loved her so much but sometimes her bad temper and her angry way of growling at him and their boys upset them all. One day Rona husband said to her “The Moon  is good for fishing tonight i’ll take the boys with me to the island across the bay the fish well be catch” he said to her aging “ we won’t be back in tell the morning ok so have a meal out for us”  They  load their nets lines hooks and baits in to a canoe and paddled away .The next day rona began to prepare the hangi (oven) to cook the meal in . First she cleared out the ashes embers and cooking stones from the pit dug into the ground that she would prepare the meal in . Then Rona built a fire for the food . as it began to grow dark and the heated cooking stones glowed red Rona could hear her family singing as they returned across the bay in their canoe she was about was about to place the food on the stones we she found out that her stuff had nothing she needed water to put on stones so the stones can cook the food because she knew her family was hungry she rand and got the water because she heard her family singing across the bay it was dark by the time she was near when she was near a path a full moon was shining you could clearly see the silver big moon  weirdly the moon and it was so dark and a Rona couldn’t see things that much she hurt her toe ad she cash in to a rock Rona was in so much pain and she was so angry  at the moon for hiding his light that she shouted at him pokokohua witch means boil you head this was a terrible curse and a great insult the moon heard rude words and came down from his place in the sky he took hold of of Rona and began to take her from the ground she hang on to a tree but the tree wasn’t strong so she went up with the the stuff in her hand and a tree in the other hand and as this day she is in the moon .  

Illustrated by Ciannah (in Room 6 at PES) and Naomi (in Room 6 at PES)