Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths & Legends
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
The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. Seth has been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens for as long as he can remember. By day he's frozen as a statue of a shepherd boy, but as soon as the ...Show more
Bumblebee Grumblebee by David Elliot
$16.99 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books
In this delightful board book built on wordplay, toddlers will recognize each activity--getting dressed, playing, painting (including themselves), having a bath--and see how the animal makes the mischievous most of it.The bumblebee breaks its toy--bumblebee grumblebee!The cockatoo is getting dressed--co ...Show more
Kia Kaha: A Storybook of Maori Who Changed the World by Stacey Morrison, Jeremy Sherlock
$27.00 NZD
$45.00 (40% off)
Category: NZ Biography
A powerful illustrated storybook for the tamariki and rangatahi of Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating Maoritanga! KIA KAHA is a collection of true stories about amazing Maori who have achieved incredible things. Each of them blazed a trail in their own way, and this pukapuka was written to show that with ...Show more
The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia (#2) by Eirlys Hunter
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: The Mapmakers
In this follow-up to the internationally successful The Mapmakers' Race, the Santander children are drawn into a community’s rebellion against a despot and use their mapping skills to avert an environmental scam. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous ...Show more
Violet Black (#1 Black Spiral) by Eileen Merriman
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction | Series: Black Spiral
Set in the near future, this first book in a fast-paced trilogy will hook you in from the first page. Violet Black and Ethan Wright are both in a coma after contracting the lethal M-fever. They have never met. - I couldn't speak, but I was trying so hard to communicate and then . . . then . . . I push ...Show more
Amorangi and Millie's Trip Through Time by Lauren Keenan
$25.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Amorangi and Millie lost their mum. Their only clue to her whereabouts is a carving on a tree that says "I’m in the past! Rescue me!". To do this, Amorangi and Millie must travel up every branch of their family tree and collect an object from each ancestor they meet. They must then be back in the modern ...Show more
The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke (Ngā Taonga e Waru Mā Wheke Te Reo Pākehā Edition) by Steph Matuku; Laya Mutton-Rogers
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Tamati and his little sister, Aria, are playing on the beach when Aria hurts herself and can't stop crying. Te Wheke, an octopus, hears her and says he can help. But he tricks Tamati by throwing him a gold coin and a shiny pearl, and while both Tamati's hands are full, he snatches Aria. To save his sis ...Show more
The Tomo by Mary-Anne Scott
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Teen Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Phil is sent to work on a sheep station while his father undergoes cancer treatment over the Christmas period. Phil's only consolation is that he is entrusted with his father’s beloved heading dog, Blue. But a wayward ram leads Blue into danger and they both plummet into a deep tomo. Ph ...Show more
Donovan Bixley's Draw Some Awesome by Donovan Bixley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Drawing and Colouring
Donovan brings his unique style to teaching kids (and grown-ups!) to draw. In a book that spans levels of skill, Donovan takes his readers through warm-up exercises, mark making, sketchbooks, imagination exercises, inspirational shapes, drawing animals, faces, character creation, detail, copying, perspe ...Show more
Coastwatcher by David Hill
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winning author David Hill. 'It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs will ...Show more
How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions for Children by REBEKAH LIPP
$39.99 NZD
Category: Emotions and Feelings
Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions might feel in the body and how each emotion might be helpful. This emotions dictionary is all about helping children find the words for how they truly feel. Learning to recognise and label our emotions correctly is such an important skill f ...Show more