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A Booming in the Night by Ben Brown
$17.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo is lonely so Pukeko sets out to find him a friend. But perhaps Kakapo doesn?t need Pukeko?s help at all ? the booming in the night seems to be attracting the right sort of company. A delightful story, beautifully written and illustrated by the author and illustrator team who produced Natural New ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
A Fish in the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
‘This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories — distorted by time and distance and a writer’s choice of words…’ Ben Brown writes of that quintessentially New Zealand way of living that may not change the world or eve ...Show more
Fifty-five Feathers by Ben Brown; Helen Taylor
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
Pukeko is worried about her friend Gecko who seems to be suffering in the cold of winter, so she asks Wise Old Tree for some advice. 'Make him a cloak of fifty-five feathers,' she is told, and so Pukeko sets out to help her friend.
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Pukeko Counts to 10: Ka Tatau a Pūkeko ki te 10 by Ben Brown
$15.99 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
A beautiful bilingual counting board book for toddlers featuring the birds of Aotearoa, from poet Ben Brown and illustrator Helen Taylor.Let's go visiting with Pukeko, and count up the birds together in Maori and English!With durable card leaves at a suitable size for little hands, and gorgeous page des ...Show more
Sandstealers by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? 'We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort. Set in a world where life is cheap, vengeance is long and betrayals can be deadly, 'Sandstealers' is a masterly thriller, infused with a deep knowledge ...Show more
The Apple by Ben Brown
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
'Once upon a certain day a bright and shiny girl with green eyes, golden hair and rosy cheeks picked a golden apple that was hanging from a magic apple tree like a second sun in the sky...' This girl is called Blossom and little does she realise that she is not the only one who wants this special appl ...Show more
The Rainmakers by Ben Brown
$8.50 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Pukeko has always wanted a rainbow, so she chases one to a nearby mountain into her swamp, bringing everlasting rain to the mountain. When the kea who own the rainbow find out who has stolen their precious treasure, they set out to get it back.
The Song of the Ship Rat by Ben Brown
$19.50 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Reading Level: 5+
Unroll the maps to Far Away! We’ll sail before the sun … Join our weary ship rat as he reminisces of days gone by, his travels around the world and the sights he’s seen, written in lyrical, evocative language.
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