Nonstop Nonsense by Margaret Mahy
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
Wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake. Readers meet the man from Fandango who pays a visit once every five hundred years, the word wizard who casts his spell over the Delmonico family, and ...Show more
The Top Secret Intergalactic Notes of Buttons McGinty (#3) by Rhys Darby
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Buttons McGinty
Comedian Rhys Darby delivers more words AND more pictures in his third hilarious book for kids! B uttons McGinty is back and once again he's travelling through space and time . . . he found Dad in Book 2, but now they're on the trail of Mumsy, who is being held by the evil Queen Zankerflorna! Join Butto ...Show more
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, 'Closed'. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful stor ...Show more
Christmas in Summer by Suzy Cato, Itty Beats
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Christmas in summer, it's always a stunner, the children, they laugh and they play. Sing along with this Down Under delight! This catchy new song from Suzy Cato and the Itty Bitty Beats will be a hit with young and old. Santa's having a fun day at the beach, surfing and cooking a BBQ for Mrs Claus and t ...Show more
Viola Vincent Reporting (#1) by Anna Kenna
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Viola Vincent Reporting
There was a loud crack as the handlebars snapped off. Caitlin watched as her mother, with a surprised look on her face, somersaulted through the air like some bizarre circus performer, before landing with a dull thud on her back. The accident that almost killed her mother seals Caitlin’s own destiny. An ...Show more
Underdog (Viola Vincent Reporting #2) by Anna Kenna
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
From the time she first encounters a sick and skinny Jack Russell in the company of a twitchy man at the vet’s, Caitlin is fired up. She wonders why the dog is in such poor condition and where her pups are? Seeking answers to those questions leads Caitlin to the grim world of puppy farming and a quest t ...Show more
Toitoi #21: A Journal For Young Writers and Artists (Summer 2020)
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With over 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource. ...Show more
Trainsurfer (#1 Jabu & Friends) by Kate S Richards
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction | Series: Jabu & Friends
The day his mother dies, Jabu's instinct is to run. He runs away from the Johannesburg hospital and soon finds himself amongst a gang of train surfers on top of a hurtling train. After witnessing the dark side of train surfing, he continues to flee from his hopeless life, all the while searching for a p ...Show more
14 Nga Tohu Aroha Ka Tukuna by Wayne Youle
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
When we’re apart from the ones we love, how do we get our kisses to them? We blow them! The blown kisses in this charming book travel far. Tied to a rocket, attached to a pigeon, kicked like a rugby ball – and many other imaginative ways. Wayne Youle (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke, Ngāti Pākehā) is one of A ...Show more
A Dragon in a Wagon (Board Book) by Lynley Dodd
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books
This board book edition of Lynley Dodd's beloved rhyming story about a girl who wishes she had a more exciting pet is perfect for little hands. 'But just for once it might be fun if you changed from dog,' she said. 'To something HUGE or something FIERCE or something ODD instead.' When Susie Fogg takes h ...Show more
There are Fish Everywhere by Britta Teckentrup
19.00 NZD
Category: Sealife
Bestselling illustrator Britta Teckentrup explores the world of fish in a sumptuously illustrated non-fiction book. There are fish everywhere! Some of them live in fresh water, some of them live under ice, and some even live in the desert. There are Fish Everywhere is the first in a series of non-fict ...Show more
Locked Down by Jesse O
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
The deadly influenza pandemic XB276 is sweeping the country. Twelve-year-old Zac wakes up one morning to the news that everyone must stay home. He can't leave the house for weeks, or even months. Pretty soon he's facing running out of food, with no electricity, no telephone and no internet. The only peo ...Show more