Category: Early Experiences & Issues
From award-winning New Zealand author, Craig Phillips, creator of The Adventures of Jack Scratch and Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts (winner of the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the New Zealand Book Awards 2018).Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards of nervousness, fear, worrying th ...Show more
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
The history of Mauao, along with the legend, is one of heartbreak and struggle, but also one of endurance, strength and unity. Mauao stands guard at the entrance to Te Awanui, the Tauranga Harbour. At over two million years old, he is a tipuna and sacred taonga, manifesting both the past and the present ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
In this story about being true to oneself, a boy searches for the secret to doing the perfect bomb into the water. With training from Nan, an expert and former champion, and by listening to his own voice, he finds his unique style and pulls off a wonderful, acrobatic, truly awe-inspiring bomb.
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
This story is the te reo Maori edition of The Bomb. In this story about being true to oneself, a boy searches for the secret to doing the perfect bomb into the water. With training from Nan, an expert and former champion, and by listening to his own voice, he finds his unique style and pulls off a wond ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Beth and the Bracelets is a picture book with a difference. On one hand, it is about the Monday morning after a little girl is not invited to a birthday party. However, it is also about emotional overload, dealing with a complicated life and ultimately about the hope adults can give to children who are ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
A modern take on the classic rhyme Row, Row, Row Your Boat with three brave adventurers setting off on an epic journey. From the tallest penguin to the world's deadliest octopus, you might encounter a friendly narwhal or even a nest of sea snakes. But don't forget to look out for the crocodiles!
Category: NZ Picture Books
Harry Newton's grandmother needs his help to cut wood for the winter, so he jumps on his flying bicycle to go and help her. On the way though, he's blown off-course and crashlands on a deserted island - with only his pocket knife, an axe, a saw and his cat. How will Harry get out of this one? 'For any t ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Little Ben has only two wishes. That he be a little Taller and that there be a little more Time. People are always running out of Time, are short of Time or don't have Time to spare. For his birthday he gets a strange watch that gives him all the Time in the World.
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Flit the Fantail
Flit has found some eggs ... but whose could they be? It is a misty morning in the forest. Flit the fantail chick is practising his landings. Flap, flop, slip, FLIP. Flit slips on something slippery and round. He has stumbled upon eight rubbery white eggs. Join Flit and his friends, Kiki the kaka, rasc ...Show more
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A small boy watches the strange events that unfold with the birth of his baby brother, who is born with a heart defect. Through his eyes we see the tragedy unfold. This book deals with death of a baby sibling for young children from the point of view of the child.
Category: NZ Picture Books
An action-packed, hilarious story about two wild, rascally boys and the trouble they cause in the garden, until the plants decide to teach them a lesson ... because, as the boys discover, plants have eyes and ears too!
Category: NZ Picture Books
The text for this book was written by the children of Tarras School and edited by teachers, parents and John Perriam. The story, written through the eyes of a child, tells of Shrek's start in life at Bendigo Station, his journey to the mountains above, how he found a cave and made it home and, finally, ...Show more
