Summer Reading Guide 2023/2024
These titles have been chosen by us as some of our favourite for the 2023/2024 Summer. They appear on our Summer Reading Guide.
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edi ...Show more
Have You Seen Dinosaur? (FS) by David Barrow
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Play hide and seek with a boy, his animal friends and a dinosaur that's surprisingly hard to spot in the city. The brilliantly interactive follow-up to international bestselling picture book, Have You Seen Elephant? Best friends boy, dog, and elephant are VERY good at hide-and-seek. There's a missing ...Show more
Madame Badobedah and the Old Bones by Sophie Dahl
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A timeless story celebrating friendship, imagination and adventure, with exquisite illustrations, from a bestselling author. Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests, particularly their most interesting guest a ...Show more
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
$26.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: Thieves' Gambit Ser.
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life. At only seventeen years old, Rosalyn Quest is already a master thief, especiall ...Show more
Odd Wolf Out (#1 Faelan the Wolf) by Juliette Maclver
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Faelan the Wolf
Brand new animal fantasy series! The first of three funny, full-of-heart adventures in this new fantasy series that follows a gentle but determined vegetarian wolf named Faelan (which means ‘Little Wolf’ in Gaelic), who is something of a misfit, derided by the other wolves in the pack. He would rather ...Show more
To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
An epic story set in a polar wilderness that blurs realism and imagination—fully illustrated for newly independent readers.Ida, Max and Jack go to the creek one winter’s day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away—all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sand ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (#1 Geomancer) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: Geomancer
From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear. In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye. In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the tre ...Show more
The Sporty Looky Book by Donovan Bixley
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Can you find all the silver ferns? What about spot the differences on the rugby team's tour bus? You'll have a ball of a time diving into the crazy world of The Sporty Looky Book. The Looky Book series continues with a hilarious 24-page puzzle book that puts you right in the middle of all the sporting ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...Show more
The Maps Book (Lonely Planet Kids) by Joanne Bourne
$29.99 NZD
Category: Atlases | Series: The\Fact Book Ser.
Explore the amazing world of maps from the first sketches on cave walls to real time maps on phones. Discover their incredible history and marvel at ancient maps, war maps, weather maps and even interactive maps from computer games. Packed with awesome facts, kids will soon grasp how to read maps and sy ...Show more
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett
$14.99 NZD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: CLEARANCE SALE - Picture Books
The multi-award-winning duo of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen tackle a perennial question: how does Santa go down the chimney? When Santa arrives at a child’s house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there’s no chimney? Maybe he slides unde ...Show more
Always Never Always (HB) by Meg McKinlay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A poetic and quirky one-of-a kind classic-in-the-making, that encourages readers to explore their world, from two award winning creators.Always follow secret tracks –the paths that wind and wend through cracks.Never worry where they go.When you get there, then you’ll know.Meg McKinlay is a multi-award-w ...Show more