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.
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
The Puppets of Spelhorst (HB) by Kate DiCamillo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale, enchantingly illustrated, in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning and high spirits. Once, there was a king. And a wolf. And a girl with a shepherd’s crook. And a boy with a bow and arro ...Show more
Mangō: Sharks and Rays of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud; Andrew Stewart
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The oceans surrounding Aotearoa New Zealand are home to over a hundred astonishing and strange species of sharks and rays. This fact-filled book takes you down into the fascinating underwater lives of these expert hunters, illustrates their evolution and explores their place in our culture. And it expla ...Show more
The Treasure Hunt by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
$34.99 NZD
Category: Facts and Information
Discover real-life stories of treasures lost, stolen and found where YOU become the treasure hunter! Discover a message in a bottle that appears to be from the ghost of Captain William Kidd - the infamous pirate and now, it would seem, thief! Follow a breadcrumb trail of intriguing clues left by the tre ...Show more