Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak
22.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or ...Show more
The Dot (PB) by Peter H. Reynolds
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Creatrilogy
"Just make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti says she can't draw, but her teacher thinks she can. She knows there's creative spirit in everyone, and encourages Vashti to sign the angry dot she makes in frustration on a piece of paper. This act makes Vashti begin to perceive herself differently, ...Show more
On a Magical Do-Nothing Day by Beatrice Alemagna
17.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
WINNER of the 2018 4-11 Picture Book Awards (Fiction 4-7 category)One of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017All I want to do on a rainy day like today is play my game, but my mum says it's a waste of time. The game drives my mum mad. She takes it away. I take it back. I wish Dad ...Show more
James and the Giant Peach (A4 Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Roald Dahl Colour Editions
"James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled, and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and grow and grow. Inside that peach are seven ...Show more
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Plans for the Newtoun community’s Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra’s practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi’s trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty … and Ms Ropata’s juggling it all because everyone wants in. There’ll be curry and cake, ka ...Show more
Gus's Garage by Leo Timmers
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Gus's workshop is chockful of useless odds and ends. But when his friend Rico comes over with a problem - his scooter seat is way too small for a rhino. Gus finds just the thing to solve it. He creates a fabulous new vehicular contraption with an old lounge chair! One by one Gus's friends bring him the ...Show more
Inside the Villains by Clotilde Perrin
40.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
An extraordinary pop-up book that reveals the secrets of the most famous fairy-tale villains--the giant, the wolf and the witch--with interactive flaps, a twist on well-known tales, and personality cards for each villain. Lift the flaps to see the diabolical thoughts inside the villains' heads, what hid ...Show more
Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Handa
Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend Akeyo as a surprise, but meets some hungry animals along the way. READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers' confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indi ...Show more
Pearl Barley & Charlie Parsley by Aaron Blabey
21.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way . . . Pearl likes solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world. Charlie likes taking baths and watching his garden grow. So how can Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsely be such goods friends? A delig ...Show more
The Hidden Forest by Jeannie Baker
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Looking for his lost fish trap, Ben thinks he sees something dark moving under the water. Is it a creature or only his imagination? Diving into the sea with his friend Sophie, he is amazed to discover a wonderful hidden world - and the rich variety of creatures that live there.
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture shows the developments of the land being reclaimed from built up concrete to a gradual greening, shown through the artist's collage illustrations. This is a hopeful environmental message.
Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: The\Boy Ser.
In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole... The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together... That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignori ...Show more