Category: NZ Poetry
A new gift edition of James K Baxter's classic poems for children, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart. The poems in Seagull Seagull are light and easy read-alouds for classrooms or with toddlers-on-the-couch. James K Baxter wrote these poems when he was teaching in Lower Hutt in the 1950s. Successful in th ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
In February 2019, after many weeks of drought conditions, an inadvertent incident with a piece of farm machinery led to the worst fires ever experienced in the Tasman region in the upper South Island. As the flames roared over the tinder-dry region, helicopters and fixed wing planes took to the skies wi ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Do you know a cat who likes to join in? See what is going on? A cat who just loves to help out? Then you will love Parker the very nosy cat, a new picture book written by David Ling Parker can be a pest, poking his nose into everything that is going on. He’s also pretty clumsy and, while he tries ...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: 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 | Series: Maui's Taonga Tales
Aimed at children aged seven to eleven, this book’s lively stories tell the tales of some of the taonga held at Aotearoa New Zealand’s famous national museum, Te Papa, through appealing text and fantastic illustrations. The book’s pūkōrero, or story teller, is Māui, the ...Show more
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Nana's back porch is draughty and old, it's dangerous, rickety, slippery and cold. This fully bilingual book incorporates the characters from Nana's Shed and Bella's Fringe in a story that revels in the fertile imaginations of Kiwi kids, especially those who enjoy building things, teamwork, creativity ...Show more
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Nana dreams of having a shed in her garden. Despite the passing of time, the parts for the shed lie in a pile on the lawn. Grandson, Jacob, and his friend, Max, take matters into their own hands. Using some ingenuity, and the sort of imagination that makes everything possible, they build the shed that N ...Show more
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
In ancient times in Aotearoa, there was a beautiful lake in which there dwelt two monstrous taniwha. Their names were Whataitai and Ngake. Whataitai and Ngake are two taniwha living in a beautiful lake. But when Ngake gets bored and decides to break free to the ocean his actions have far reaching conse ...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
Full of shout-aloud noise words, rhythm and rhyme, this text follows the process of building a road from beginning to end. Children will love to recognise familiar sights, from diggers to road signs.
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
