The Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Bantam and the Soldier
Winner of the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bant ...Show more
Best Mates: Three Lads Who Went to War Together by Philippa Werry
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The three young soldiers in the story are best friends from school, and they leave New Zealand together to go and fight at Gallipoli. Landing first in Egypt, they travel by ship to Anzac Cove and dig into trenches to fight the Turkish troops holding the peninsula. Conditions are tough and Joe gets sick, ...Show more
The Deadly Sky by David Hill
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It's 1974, and a dark, cold New Zealand winter. So when Darryl's mum announces she is going to the remote Pacific island of Mangareva for work, and she's taking him with her, he is thrilled. But even as Darryl soaks up the warmth and idyllic beauty of French Polynesia, his holiday is darkened by ugly an ...Show more
The Name at the End of the Ladder by Elena de Roo
17.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Win the game to choose your name and free the players who remain. Twelve - year - old September is determined to choose an adventurous name for herself from the Name Bank - not like all her friends, who are named after flowers or trees. Soon she discovers that she has no choice, unless she can win an an ...Show more
Amazing Alphabetical Alliterations by Roger Twiname
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A tongue twisting journey through the alphabet using well known NZ characters.
Dingle-Dangle Scarecrow (PB Book & CD) by The Topp Twins
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
I'm a dingle-dangle scarecrow with a flippy-floppy hat. I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that! The charmed combination of the Topp Twins and Jenny Cooper goes from strength to strength, this time bringing their talents to this well-loved children's song about a scarecrow who loves t ...Show more
Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Caught in the middle of the clash between two great Maori clans, Simeon, grandson of Bulibasha and Ramona, struggles with his own feelings and loyalties as the battles rage ... This award-winning novel is being reissued to tie in with the release of Mahana, the stunning film adaptation of the novel. ...Show more
Do Your Ears Hang Low? + CD by The Topp Twins
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The delightfully silly song comes to life in a hilarious picture book--complete with a mirror on the final spread Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Most kids and parents know and love the song "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"--and Jenny Coop ...Show more
At the Beach: Explore & Discover the New Zealand Seashore by Gillian Candler; Ned Barraud
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: Explore and Discover
At the Beach is a delightful introduction to the natural history of the New Zealand seashore. The stage is set with beautiful, factually correct illustrations (including detailed cross-sections) of three familiar habitats - the sandy beach, rockpools and mudflats. Many of the plants and animals that p ...Show more
Oh My Dog! (Scrap #2) by Vince Ford
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Scrap
It's time for Scrap to discover just who's the boss! Scrap, the blond puppy, gets sent to work on a farm and finally gets to try out his eye dog skills on a real sheep station. The farm is next door to the one he's discovered his mother lives on, and he is very keen to reacquaint himself with her. But h ...Show more
Wizard's Guide to Wellington by A. J. Ponder
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Alec's Dad is missing. Why isn't he at Wellington airport to help pick up Perrin, the mysterious English cousin Alec has heard so little about? Perrin has arrived at "Wellingtowne Airport" only to discover Ike, her cantankerous wizarding guide, has disappeared. Worse, she cannot see anyone there to meet ...Show more
Victory and the All-Stars Academy (#8 Pony Club Secrets) by Stacy Gregg
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Pony Club Secrets
The eighth gripping adventure in this exciting pony-club series. Issie has won a place in the National Junior Team and is selected to compete in the Young Rider Express Eventing Challenge in Australia. She's got the perfect horse, Victory, so this should be her chance to shine -- even if her new instruc ...Show more