Hataitai Playcentre Taniwha Songbook For Ukulele & Guitar (with CD) by Hataitai Playcentre
35.00 NZD
Category: Songs & Music
Following the success of the CD recorded by whanau at the Playcentre, Nga Waiata o te Taniwha, Hataitai Playcentre has produced a songbook for ukulele and guitar, so more early childhood centres and families can enjoy te reo Maori through waiata. The selection of 20 traditional and instructional te reo ...Show more
Fantastic Mr. Bean by Mary-Anne Scott
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
The school is putting on Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, to celebrate his 100th birthday. But school plays are notoriously full of surprises!
Still Is by Vincent O'Sullivan
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The thrushes are back. The blackbirds too are back, already worrying the thrushes, filching their choice worms. The gorse is running the hills along the Aramoana Road, spills the slopes yellow; the broom, so much more politely, you call it gold. Look again, the gorse walks prickling against the skyline. ...Show more
Entanglement by Bryan Walpert
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from New Zealand. ...Show more
Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
‘The modern world is too much for me. I feel like I’m George of the Jungle.’ —Greta 'At the moment, for personal reasons, I don't like reading things about people being in love with each other.' —Valdin Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but no ...Show more
Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
'Welcome to our story, this history. Wherever in the world the bones of your ancestors lie, wherever their ashes may have been dispersed, here you will find traces of them, and of yourself... It is, of course, a story of colonisation and resistance - and a history that has never stopped repeating.' The ...Show more
The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke (Ngā Taonga e Waru Mā Wheke Te Reo Pākehā Edition) by Steph Matuku; Laya Mutton-Rogers
20.00 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 Dragon Riders (Dragon Brothers #3 picture book) by James Russell
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: The Dragon Brothers
Thanks to an unexpected adventure, brothers Flynn and Paddy have recently acquired a pet dragon. In the third book of this series, their dragon, Elton John, takes them on an impromptu ride through the sky, right into the heart of a dragon gathering. Full color.
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
Dinosaur Hunter: Joan Wiffen's Awesome Fossil Discoveries by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
The remarkable true story of science superstar Joan Wiffen, whose fossil discoveries proved that dinosaurs lived in ancient New Zealand. Once there was a clever girl who liked searching for interesting things on the ground. She wanted to know why shells could be found in rocks so far away from the sea. ...Show more
Speed King: Burt Munro, the World's Fastest Indian by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
In 1967 an unknown, elderly New Zealander and his ancient Indian motorcycle set a world land-speed record at Bonneville. The man was Burt Munro, and he became a Kiwi legend. How did he do it? His amazing true story is now a stunning picture book. A crowd of people stand on a flat white plain. In the di ...Show more
Spearo by Mary Anne Scott
24.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
Sean has emigrated to New Zealand with his mother from Zimbabwe after the death of his father. He is finding it hard to fit in at school, cope with his grief and his homesickness. He becomes mates with a boy in his class, Mason, who is a mad keen spearo and gradually becomes involved with his family. He ...Show more