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30 unnumbered pages.colour illus. Every school holidays the kids go and stay with their nanny in her house by the sea. One morning, for some reason, Nanny Mihi gets the kids up early and they sit on the porch whistling a song until the sun comes up. Then they find out why - a bellbird appears and joins in the song. Whenever they come to stay after that, the bellbird is there to whistle the kids' song. But in spring, there is no bellbird! What has happened? In English with some Māori. New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator.