Kea: Curiouser and Curiouser by Annemarie Florian
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Kea is the only parrot in the world that lives in alpine areas and it faces increasing threats to its survival. Kea are incredibly intelligent birds with advanced problem-solving skills and capacity for learning.This social bird is known for its interaction with visitors to national parks and its in ...Show more
Gecko (Nature Storybooks) by Raymond Huber
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Nature Storybooks
The creators of the award-winning Flight of the Honey Bee team up again for a look at a remarkable lizard: the gecko. Meet the gecko, the escape artist of the lizard world. Hawks, rats, and snakes would love to catch one for their dinner, but the gecko's amazing ability to protect itself and outsmart ...Show more
Donovan Bixley's Draw Some Awesome by Donovan Bixley
30.00 NZD
Category: Learn to Draw & Paint
Donovan brings his unique style to teaching kids (and grown-ups!) to draw. In a book that spans levels of skill, Donovan takes his readers through warm-up exercises, mark making, sketchbooks, imagination exercises, inspirational shapes, drawing animals, faces, character creation, detail, copying, perspe ...Show more
Lonely Planet Best Day Walks New Zealand by Craig McLachlan, Andrew Bain, Peter Dragicevich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Travel Guide
Lonely Planet Best Day Walks New Zealand is your passport to 60 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs away from the city by picking a walk that works for you, from just a couple of hours to a full day, from easy to hard. Wind your way around volcanoes, feast your eyes on dramatic vistas, and scale ...Show more
Torn Apart - the Partition of India, 1947 by Swapna Haddow
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
A thrilling and moving account of the largest movement of people in history, telling both sides of the story through the voices of children at the heart of Partition. It's October 1947 and two young boysfind themselves thrown together during the dramatic changes of Partition. As the new India and Paki ...Show more
Big Woolly Mammoth by Geoff Gudsell
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Let Big Woolly Mammoth take you back to the time of the Ice Age and early humans.Children, as young as pre-schoolers, will enjoy the beautifully illustrated, quirky yet factual story about her life and times.The detailed facts section following the story will add interest, and some surprises for all rea ...Show more
Faking It: My Life in Transition by Kyle Mewburn
38.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Kyle Mewburn grew up in the sunburnt, unsophisticated Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s and '70s in a household with little love and no books, with a lifelong feeling of being somehow wrong - like 'strawberry jam in a spinach can'. In this book, Kyle describes this early life and her journey to becoming her ...Show more
Aotearoa Lost Worlds by Dave Gunson
20.00 NZD
Category: Dinosaurs
Aotearoa New Zealand has changed dramatically in its size and nature throughout prehistory. It has also seen a great diversity of animals and plants - dinosaurs, great sea reptiles, the largest-ever bird of prey, supergiant penguins, crocodiles, early mammals and giant moa - most of them unique to these ...Show more
Why is That Lake So Blue? by Simon Pollard
30.00 NZD
Category: Earth Science
Why is our place magic? Why are its islands shaky? Why are our mountains tall and our forests green? Why are some lakes so blue? What happens beneath the waves? Who used to live here? What changed when mammals arrived? What happens in the dark? In this fun-filled, fact-rich book, award-winning science w ...Show more
The New Zealand Art Activity Book by Helen Lloyd
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Get in the frame with 100+ exciting art activities Bursting with art activities, this fun new edition of the Art Activity Book aimed at young New Zealanders is sure to please – both children and their teachers and caregivers. This new edition of a much loved and used book includes reproductions of 51 hi ...Show more
Wai Pasifika - Indigenous Ways in a Changing Climate by David Young
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Science can be as wondrous as the explanations that come out of earth-rooted cultures. Polynesians, like the inhabitants of Oceania generally, have always lived in a state of heightened awareness of the profundity and subtlety of natures moods and interrelationships. Theirs was a holistic view of the wo ...Show more
Soundings - Diving for stories in the beckoning sea by Kennedy Warne
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
For the past 40 years, Kennedy Warne, one of New Zealand's best-known nature writers and commentators, has been exploring the underwater world. His love of the ocean began as a small boy sailing and fishing with this father on the Hauraki Gulf and was further strengthened by a degree in marine biology. ...Show more