Build Your Own History Museum by Claudia Martin
30.00 NZD
Category: Pop-Ups/Novelty Books | Series: Build Your Own
Calling all archaeologists! A crate has arrived for you and it's packed with treasures from the ancient world! Can you assemble them and assign each to the right room in time for the museum's big opening? Among the treasures to display are an Egyptian sarcophagus, a Greek temple and a Chinese Terracotta ...Show more
Pasifika Coastwatchers by David Riley
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
On Sunday 7 December 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked American ships in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. And the Pasifika Coastwatchers leaped into action! Their job was to report the movements of Japanese aircraft, ships and subma ...Show more
The Road to the Future: An Electric Pioneer and his Magnificent Battery Cars by Viv Walker
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
In 1898, New Zealand's first motor car rumbled on to a bustling Wellington street. The age of the car had arrived. It's 20 years later in Christchurch, and another revolutionary vehicle quietly makes its entrance ... meet New Zealand's first electric truck! Delivery man Mr O'Hare bets a hot pie that h ...Show more
Roman Soldiers: Discover the world of the ancient Roman army (British Museum) by Tegen Evans
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Discover the secrets of the Roman Army in this fascinating gift book from the British Museum. What was a Roman legion? How exactly did soldiers train for battle? And why did they have to 'march like a tortoise'? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this complete guide to life in the ...Show more
I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel #3) by Lauren Tarshis
30.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: I Survived Graphic Novels
A beautifully rendered graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by lvaro Sarraseca. In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barel ...Show more
Protest!: Shaping Aotearoa by Mandy Hager
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A selected history of the protests in New Zealand that shape modern day Aotearoa, starting with the early 1800s, through to anti-nuclear and land rights. Mandy Hager looks at the background, the structure of the protest and how it affected attitudes. Includes a brief look at the Pacific Islands claims f ...Show more
Live Like A Roman by CLAIRE SAUNDERS
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Live Like A Ser.
Live Like a Roman is a fascinating and informative journey back in time to find out what it was really like to live in Ancient Rome and the sprawling Roman Empire. Get ready to discover what it waslike to live in this epic era of mad, bad emperors, wealthy senators, fearsome gladiators, loyal citizens, ...Show more
The History Book (Miles Kelly)
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Explore fascinating events in history with this thrilling book. Packed with hundreds of detailed photographs and jaw-dropping facts, kids will be pulled in and engrossed from start to finish. The History Book uncovers spectacular constructions such as India’s Taj Mahal, extreme events such as the Black ...Show more
Mystery at the Museum (The Met) by Helen Friel
35.00 NZD
Category: Activity & Puzzle Books
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure style puzzle book follow-on to Lost In the Museum. Help William the hippo and his friends solve the puzzles and save the exhibition! William the hippo and his friends live on 5th Avenue, New York, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At night, when the museum i ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Treaty of Waitangi (magnetic story)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
ANZAC Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Every year on the 25th of April, thousands of New Zealanders get up very early in the morning to join dawn parade ceremonies around the country. Later, many more people attend Anzac Day services to commemorate the soldiers who died at Gallipoli in 1915 and to celebrate the spirit of the ANZACs.A rich hi ...Show more
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Noah Harari
32.00 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers. We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of th ...Show more