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Amazing Aotearoa Activity Book by Gavin Bishop
25.00 NZD
Category: Activity & Puzzle Books
5 -12 Years Old. You'll have lots of creative fun with this book full of puzzles, quizzes and activities that explore Aotearoa New Zealand and its people. Based on Gavin Bishop's bestselling Aotearoa- The New Zealand Story and Wildlife of Aotearoa, this activity book is a place for you to tell your own ...Show more
Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Over a thousand years ago, the wind, sea currents and stars brought people to the islands that became known as Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Navigate your way through this sumptuously illustrated story of New Zealand. Explore the defining moments of our history, captured by celebrated chi ...Show more
Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Gavin Bishop's stunning, once-in-a-generation compendium introduces readers to the pantheon of Māori gods, demigods and heroes, and explores Aotearoa's most exciting legends from the Creation to the Migration. Meet the gods, demigods and heroes of the Māori people of Aotearoa in this breathtaking, large ...Show more
Bidibidi by Gavin Bishop
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Brave Bidibidi decides to follow the rainbow and meets friends along the way ... But look out for danger, Bidibidi! Bidibidi, a high country sheep in the South Island of New Zealand is tired of her boring life and a scanty diet of dry mountain grass. She decides to follow the rainbow in search of a more ...Show more
Bidibidi (Maori) by Gavin Bishop
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Bidibidi, a high country sheep in the South Island of New Zealand is tired of her boring life and a scanty diet of dry mountain grass. She decides to follow the rainbow in search of a more meaningful life. After many exciting and at times life-threatening adventures she meets Rainbow Jackson, the old ra ...Show more
Bruiser by Gavin Bishop
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Bruiser
Wonderful story for young children about a bold and brassy digger Bruiser is a machine on a mission - a digger who's ploughing up hillsides, trampling down paddocks and crushing rocks in his plan to build a motorway. His motor roared like a dinosaur. His wheels squealed like an elephant. His sides rumbl ...Show more
Cook's Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook by Gavin Bishop
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship travelled to on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here ar ...Show more
Counting the Stars: Four Maori Myths by Gavin Bishop
20.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
A sequel to Taming the Sun and Riding the Waves, Gavin Bishop's latest stunning book contains four more Maori myths, including two well-known legends (Ranginui and Papatuanuku and Hinemoa and Tutanekai) and two less well-known legends (The battle of the birds and Kae and the whale). Aimed at children 3- ...Show more
Friend by Gavin Bishop
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books
A warm and simple board book that shares how to talk about feelings through a friendship between a child and their dog. Through the up-close expressive faces of a child and their dog, we learn the words for a range of feelings. This is my dog. She is silly! She is happy. Sometimes she is sad. She's my b ...Show more
Helper and Helper (Snake and Lizard #3) by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Snake and Lizard
Another powerful addition to the popular Snake and Lizard stories. These two characters continue to entertain as they tackle serious life issues such as ‘What is help?’ ‘Where do you draw the line?’ and ‘What does being a good friend mean?’ The wisdom contained in the stories is nicely balanced with wry ...Show more
Hinepau by Gavin Bishop
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Hinepau looks different and is banished as a witch. But when her people are punished for neglecting traditional customs it is Hinepau's wisdom that brings forgiveness to them.
Kiwi Moon by Gavin Bishop
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Created by well-known children's writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop, this is the story of a little white kiwi. When he is born his mother doesn't recognise him because he's not brown. Little Kiwi looks to the moon as his mother instead because it is white and bright and round. In the background of thi ...Show more