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My Very First Story Time: Jack and the Beanstalk: A fairy tale for reading aloud by Pat-a-Cake, Ronne Randall
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fairytales | Series: My Very First Story Time
When Jack sells the family cow for a handful of magic beans, things take a fantastical turn. This dramatic retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk tingles with adventure, as the reader makes his way to the giant's castle and joins in with his hungry chant. It's never too early to introduce children to the ...Show more
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My New Zealand Story
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, 'Closed'. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful stor ...Show more
Peppa Pig: Daddy Pig's Fun Run (First Storybook - Board Book) by Ladybird
$12.99 NZD
Category: Board & Cloth Books | Series: Peppa Pig: My First Storybook
Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a delightful storybook based on the award-winning television character Peppa Pig. Huff, puff! Will Peppa Pig's Daddy make it to the finish line of the fun run and raise enough money to fix the school roof? Part of the My First Storybook range, Daddy Pig's Fun Run is a colourful an ...Show more
Peter Sam the Friendly Engine (Thomas & Friends Story Library) by Thomas Story Library
$4.99 NZD
Category: Film and TV related Books | Series: My Thomas Story Library
This is a story about Peter Sam, a Narrow-Gauge Engine. He first worked at the Old Railway for The Thin Controller many years ago. Everyone made fun of his new funnel, but he soon had the last laugh ...
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78-79 (My Story) by Sue Reid
$18.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Story
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84 (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$18.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Story
It's AD 84 when Bran, a prince of the Carvetii tribe, is captured by the Romans. A legion of soldiers is marching east, to build a military road. It's hostile country, and Bran is to go with them as a hostage to ensure the legion's safety...but no one is safe in newly conquered Britain. Experience his ...Show more
Slave Girl (My Story) by Patricia C. McKissack
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Story
In the slave quarters of Virginia's cruel plantations, Clotee's people pray for freedom. But when will it come? Clotee is a slave in a Virginia plantation. To her, freedom is the greatest word in the world. In the slave quarters, people pray for freedom, or as they call it 'heaven'. But when will it com ...Show more
Suffragette (My Story) by Carol Drinkwater
$19.50 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Story
It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. But as the movement turns violent, women are imprisoned and endangered their lives with hunger strikes.
The Contagion (My Australian Story) by Kerry Greenwood
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: My Australian Story
As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did—an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself experiencing at close hand the effects of this devastating disease— ...Show more
The Only Girl in the World by Carol Drinkwater
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Love Story
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets Helene, and it's love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two w ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs (My Very First Story Time) by Ronne Randall
$15.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books | Series: My Very First Story Time
"I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!" The Three Little Pigs is a tale of adventure and narrow escapes with lots of exciting twists and favourite repetitive phrases. Both peril and humour leap from every page, from our three little heroes and the big bad wolf. It's never too early to ...Show more
The Trenches (My Story) by Jim Eldridge
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: My Story
It's 1917 and Billy Stevens is a telegraph operator stationed near Ypres. The Great War has been raging for three years when Billy finds himself taking part in the deadly Big Push forward. But he is shocked to discover that the bullets of his fellow soldiers aren't just aimed at the enemy...