10 Ten-Minute Animal Stories
$29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: 10 Ten-Minute Stories
Reports show that reading or being read to for ten minutes every day will significantly improve children's reading skills. This short story collection supports this - each story taking about ten minutes to read. Ideal for sharing with younger children; as children learn to read on their own they can tac ...Show more
A World Full of Dickens Stories by Angela McAllister
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: World Full Of...
A beautifully illustrated anthology of some of Charles Dickens' greatest works retold and adapted by the incredibly talented Angela McAllister.
Annual 2 by Susan Paris & Kate De Goldi (Editors)
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Annual 2 contains all-new material for 9- to- 13-year-olds. The result is a highly original, contemporary take on the much-loved annuals of the past - all in one beautiful package. Alongside familiar names publishing for children - Gavin Mouldey, Sarah Johnson, Ben Galbraith, Barry Faville, Giselle Clar ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Tales by Saviour Pirotta
$24.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A stunning storytelling journey across six continents, with beautifully illustrated tales from 80 different cultures.
Astonishingly Good Stories by R.A. Spratt
$21.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes and Shockingly Good Stories, comes this collection of twenty terrific tales perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring Greek myths and fractured fairytales as told by Nanny Piggins (the world’s most glamorous flying p ...Show more
Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke
$29.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A charming collection of stories from celebrated storyteller Atinuke and with tender illustrations from Emily Hughes. Beti lives in a little round house in the woods with Mam, Tad, Baby Jac, her cheeky goat Naughty and many other farm animals. Written in Atinuke’s rhythmic, heartfelt style and brou ...Show more
First Flight: A Collection of Stories from Ngati Kahungunu Ki Wairarapa by Maxine Hemi
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
This is a collection of short stories for children and young adults about people and events of Ngati Kahungunu, an iwi or Maori tribe of Aotearoa New Zealand. The majority of the stories focus on key events in the life of Ngati Kahungunu chief Nukupewapewa. The other stories in the collection tell abou ...Show more
Funny Bones
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
If you think you've heard every funny story there is then think again ... Funny Bones is a super-huge collection of rib-tickling stories, cartoons, comics, jokes and much, much more that's bound to get even the most serious kid laughing. With over 100 funny stories, hilarious poems and side-splitting dr ...Show more
How To Spell Catastrophe by Fiona Wood
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
Nell McPherson is a catastrophe expert, but nothing has prepared her for the impending catastrophe of her mum's plans to merge families with boyfriend, Ted and his annoying daughter, Amelia. As if that's not dire enough, grade six is turning into an emotional obstacle course as Nell moves away from her ...Show more
Into the Jungle by Katherine Rundell
$19.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-loved characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each shor ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off 4 Ever by .
$12.99 NZD
Category: Humour
9 authors9 storiesNine favourite children's authors are set to make kids lose their heads again ... this time for good.Join the hilarious Andy Griffiths, hysterical Felice Arena, joyous Yvette Poshoglian, jovial Marcus Emerson, slapstick Matt Stanton, side-splitting Katrina Nannestad, riotous James Roy, ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off 4 Ever by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF
9 authors 9 storiesto make you laugh your head off 4EVER - if not longer. A runaway pram + an artsy alien + a cereal monster +a word-stealing curse + one dancing dad + three feral fairies + an evil genuis + a hairy birthday + a super-duper pig = one hilarious book.