Counting for Kiwi Babies (Board) by Matthew Williamson; Fraser Williamson
$13.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: For Kiwi Babies
Beautiful pictures of New Zealand birds are the perfect introduction to numbers and counting for Kiwi babies. This simple and eye-catching board book, with numbers in English and Maori, will delight our littlest learners. It is the ideal companion to Colours for Kiwi Babies.
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this three-volume series, Murakami's best-loved stories are available i ...Show more
Cyclone Bola: Gisborne, 1988 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beattie
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
March 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Cyclone Bola was one of the costliest cyclones in the history of New Zealand. When Amy’s parents decide to go and sail a yacht back to New Zealand from Vanuatu, Amy is sent to stay with her great uncle and aunt on a vineyard near Gisborne. When reports of Bola st ...Show more
Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (PB) by Eve Sutton
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Cats from different countries do strange and exotic things, but this ordinary cat likes to hide in boxes. First published in 1973, this book is a classic.
Santa's Worst Christmas by Pania Tahau-Hodges; Bryony Walker
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
There are just a few days to go before Christmas, and everyone’s busy putting up decorations, preparing food and getting ready for the big day. Then comes the shock news – Santa’s cancelled Christmas. Santa had so many disasters last year that he can’t face it again, and he’s quit. The elves try everyth ...Show more
The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology by Joy Cowley & Giselle Clarkson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Joy Cowley's favourite stories, poems and nonsense rhymes collected in a hardback gift volume for the family to treasure. It selects the best of Cowley's poems and stories to read aloud, including much-loved classics such as Greedy Cat and Nicketty-Nacketty Noo Noo Noo. Fully re-illustrated with humour ...Show more
The Great Kiwi ABC Book (Board) by Donovan Bixley
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Here is the ABC like you've never seen it: featuring Donovan Bixley's uniquely Kiwi characters. Look out for the milkshake-making cow, the All Black lambs, the cute pink ski-bunny, the colossal squid, and many more of Donovan's vibrant, amusing illustrations. Fun for the kids--and fun for the adults
Tui Street Tales (#1) by Anne Kayes
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Tui Street | Reading Level: very good
Once upon a time some fairy tales came to Tui Street and visited the people who lived there. There were some problems in the street: Jack's mother had secrets, the creek had dried up and Terri was being cyber-bullied, to name a few. Following a fairy tale project at school, the children began to notice ...Show more
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: very good
Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think ...Show more
1914: Riding into War (Kiwis at War) by Susan Brocker
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Kiwis at War | Reading Level: very good
Young Billy Bowman and his mate Jack get caught up in the excitement when war is declared in August 1914 and leave their jobs on the farm to rush off and enlist in the Mounted Rifles - because the war would 'probably be over by Christmas'. We follow their journey from the Awapuni training camp, to more ...Show more
1915: Wounds of War (Kiwis at War) by Diana Menefy
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Kiwis at War
Mel and her cousin Harriet are keen to nurse brave Kiwi boys fighting in the Great War, half a world away. But when they join the NZ Army Nursing Service and board a hospital ship headed for Egypt, Anzac Cove and beyond, they have little idea of the horrors they will face, the wounds they will tend, and ...Show more