The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A gloriously illustrated picture book of the classic story, retold for the young and young at heart. Mary Lennox has grown up in India, in a world of colour and light. So, when she is orphaned and sent back to England to live with her Uncle in his grey and gloomy mansion, it seems she will never be hap ...Show more
Drawn Across Borders: Stories of Migration by George Butler
36.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A collection of vivid and powerful stories drawn on the front lines of migration by award-winning artist George Butler. For thousands of years humans have moved around the world, to seek a better life, to flee disaster or to escape war. Migration is a fact of life – and one of the most pressing issues ...Show more
This Thing Called Life by CHRISTIAN BORSTLAP
39.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
From the smallest specks of life to the largest creatures, this engaging picture book shows the many shapes and forms life takes all around us. What is life? It's constantly moving, growing, reproducing, and dying. It's happening now, all the time, and it's everywhere around us. From little helicopt ...Show more
The Bee and the Sun (HB) by Catherine Hyde
39.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Catherine Hyde follows the journey of the bee and the sun in a calendar of glorious full colour paintings that celebrate the sensory delights of herbs, seasoned with bee and plant lore. From the rising and setting of the Pleiades, from sunrise to sunset, the bee and the sun work in harmony, a miracle o ...Show more
Milo Imagines The World by Matt de la Pena
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Milo Imagines the World is a warm and richly satisfying story from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling picture book duo, about a little boy with a big imagination who learns that you can't know anyone just by looking at them. Set in a bustling city, and full of a family love that binds even ...Show more
The Happiest Boy on Earth (HB) by Eddie Jaku
30.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie lived with his family and adorable dachshund, Lulu, in the beautiful city of Leipzig in Germany. But one day, into the sunshine of his childhood crept a dark, heavy cloud. Not a rain cloud. Much worse than that. Adolf Hitler came to ...Show more
Our Tower by Joseph Coelho
28.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
This magical story follows three children living in a tower block, as they embark on a fantastical adventure which helps them see their home in a new light.A deeply personal story written by the award winning poet Joseph Coelho, drawn from his own experience growing up in a tower block and looking for a ...Show more
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
15.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
This is an evocative picture book based on the classic E. Nesbit tale. When their father disappears, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move out of London and experience new exciting adventures in the countryside. But will their father ever return? It features illustrations taken from the popular "Young Reading" ...Show more
The Wreck of the Zephyr by Chris Van Allsburg
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
At the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. How did it get there? "Waves carried it up in a storm," says an old sailor. But is it possible that waves could ever go that high? There is another story - the story of a boy and his desire to be the greatest sailor, the story of a storm that ca ...Show more
Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
WINNER OF CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS An extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children's Laureate, Eoin Colfer, and picture book superstar, Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imagina ...Show more
The Promise by Nicola Davies
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
This is a picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world. On a mean street in a mean city, a thief tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But she finds she can't have it without promising something in return - to "plant them all". When it turns out the bag is full of a ...Show more
Monsieur Albert Rides to Glory by Peter Smith
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
There's a hush in the crowd as the mayor lifts his gun, then an ear-splitting Bang! and the race has begun, with a flashing of goggles and pale cyclists' knees, and a murmuring sound like the bumble of bees. Monsieur Albert enters the Grand Cycle Race, but he's up against Francois, the champion of Franc ...Show more