Category: NZ Picture Books
Join Abigail on a rainy-day adventure to explore the marvellous movement of water around the Earth. Abigail is a curious little girl. She likes to discover the answers to really BIG questions. One rainy morning, she thinks of a question that's SO BIG she can't concentrate on anything else until she kn ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
In this resonant story, Cam the mountain boy follows the river from its trickling source in the mountain snow all the way to the coast. The river leads him through forest, farms, and towns to the salty wind of the sea. Dramatic landscape illustrations evoke a North American landscape and are packed with ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Tales of Aotearoa
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of HOW Maui slowed the journey of the sun through the sky each day! The traditional tale but with Donovan's unique twist and trademark humour. The pictures are bright and bring their own level of humour to the book. Darryn Joseph ensures that the story is accurate and c ...Show more
Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions
Joy Cowley's favourite stories, poems and nonsense rhymes collected in a hardback gift volume for the family to treasure. It selects the best of Cowley's poems and stories to read aloud, including much-loved classics such as Greedy Cat and Nicketty-Nacketty Noo Noo Noo. Fully re-illustrated with humour ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
In February 2019, a tiny spark in a Pigeon Valley paddock became the largest fire in New Zealand since 1955. Up to 150 volunteer firefighters fought the blaze. Around 3,500 people were evacuated, including the whole town of Wakefield. Dozer the cat was evacuated from Wakefield too, but went missing the ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Will the egg EVER hatch? This is a story for all children eagerly awaiting a new sibling. 'When Baby wakes up, will she hop and jump?' 'Not yet, Kiwi Iti, these things take time.' Helen Taylor's gentle text and exquisitely detailed illustrations show that growing a family takes patience and love, but ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Mini Whinny
Mini Whinny, the mischievous little horse, plans to escape her annoyingly perfect stable neighbour! Goody Four-Shoes is the best...at everything. Shes graceful. She can jump really, really high. And her mane is too perfect. Mini Whinny does not like her. Not one little bit. So naughty little Mini Whinn ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
The collie dog slipped silently through the starlit night. She could smell sheep in the valley, hundreds of them. She knew what she had to do, and she had to do it quickly and quietly. This is the tale of New Zealands most notorious sheep-stealer and his loyal working dog. More than 160 years ago, James ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
"I can't share with sheep," said Wolf. "I . . . ah . . . have a tendency to eat them. It's in my nature." But would Lamb listen? No! He bleated on and on, determined to be Wolf's knitty-knotty new housemate . . .
Category: NZ Picture Books
Here's a fantastic tale for kids about the classic Kiwi holiday that includes a caravan, a beach and the sometimes-smelly toilet shed out the back of the holiday section - the longdrop. The kids need to go, and the public loo is sooo far away from their caravan. So, Dad builds a longdrop! When the paper ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
There are just a few days to go before Christmas, and everyone’s busy putting up decorations, preparing food and getting ready for the big day. Then comes the shock news – Santa’s cancelled Christmas. Santa had so many disasters last year that he can’t face it again, and he&rsquo ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Follow Little Kiwi and meet his forest friends, as he hunts for food for a midnight feast, escapes a nasty predator and arrives back to his burrow safe and sound as the sun rises. Sleep Little Kiwi Sleep introduces young children to nocturnal creatures that are busy with their `day¿, while they t ...Show more
