The Heading Dog Who Split in Half : Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand

New Zealand has a rich -- if often overlooked -- tradition of folk legends and tall tales. The Heading Dog Who Split in Half collects together some of the best of these, artfully adapted as graphic tales and complete with background notes.

Together these stories conjure up the old, weird New Zealand: a place of phantom waka, romantic escapades in the early whaling days, magical sheepdogs and gargantuan crayfish.

The book includes Pakeha, Maori and general New Zealand tales from around the country, including the poignant legend of Dunedin's Tunnel Beach, tales of Lake Tarawera's ghostly canoe, musterers' yarns from the Canterbury high country, and more.

The Heading Dog Who Split in Half uncovers a New Zealand not found in the history books, but which exists as a country of the imagination, half-familiar, half-dream.

The Heading Dog Who Split in Half is a collaboration between writer Michael Brown and comics artist Mat Tait.

Featured in the 14 September 2015 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Featured in the The Smile of Spring 2015 Great Reads newsletter.
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