The Ghosts of Tarawera (Spooky Adventures #2) by Sue Copsey
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Spooky Adventures
On holiday near Rotorua, Joe and Eddie are fascinated by the area's bubbling mud pools and boiling geysers. Local volcanologist Rocky tells them about the Pink and White Terraces that existed on the lake where they're staying, and how they were destroyed in the cataclysmic 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawer ...Show more
Boo Goes Tutti Frutti by Rachel Weston
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
You'll laugh out loud when you discover what sends this pint- sized pooch into a tailspin ... They're fruity! They're delicious! They're fruitalicious! Home alone and hungry, Boo spies something that tempts his taste buds, but will he like them? Kiwifruit! Plums! Avocados! The McQueen sisters' pristine ...Show more
The Things You Can Do with Blue Whale Poo by Chris Collin
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Have you ever wondered, as I tend to do, of things you can do with blue whale poo? Never? Like it or not, or whatever you think, regardless of size or how much it may stink, blue whale poop creates life in the sea. Which makes it important to you and to me. And after this book I am sure you'll agree we ...Show more
I Had a Brother by Diana Menefy
30.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A small boy watches the strange events that unfold with the birth of his baby brother, who is born with a heart defect. Through his eyes we see the tragedy unfold. This book deals with death of a baby sibling for young children from the point of view of the child.
Seeking an Aurora by Elizabeth Pulford
27.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A young boy wakes to a cold midnight adventure with his dad. They walk up a hill to see the Aurora Australis and this distant man becomes an excited and loving father as he explains this phenomenon.
The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!
Milking Time (On the Farm) by Lee Lamb
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: On the Farm
Hooray - big farm machines are arriving at Jack and Tom's farm! They are going to harvest the grain, mow and bale hay and make some silage so the sheep and cattle at Winding Creek Station have enough feed stored away for the winter. Join Jack and tom as they help out the contractors while they work hard ...Show more
Snow Rescue (On the Farm) by Lee Lamb
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: On the Farm
A thick blanket of snow covers Jack's and Tom's farm, trapping the sheep on the hill. With help of a bulldozer. a helicopter and a few friends, the sheep are snow-raked down to the lower paddocks for the winter.
Favourite Maori Legends by A.W. Reed; Ross Calman
30.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Maori myths and legends have an important role in transmitting and regenerating traditional knowledge. Yet as Ross Calman points out in his introduction to this new edition, they are also simply great yarns - reflective of a time when telling and listening to stories was a key leisure activity in Maori ...Show more
Te Toki Me Te Whao: The Story of Maori Carving Tools by Clive Fugill
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
It is over a century since the last major book on Māori carving tools. Clive Fugill, Master Carver at the NZ Māori Arts & Crafts Institute, tells the mythical, traditional and modern stories of the making and use of carving tools, including the adze (toki) and the chisel (whao) with detailed drawing ...Show more
Te Reo Kapekape: Māori Wit and Humour by Hona Black
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Following on from the successful He Iti te Kupu: Māori Metaphors and Similes, Hona Black’s new book explores the rich vein of humour in Māori life. Want to know how to call a silly person a ‘roro hipi / sheep’s brain’, or tell someone to get stuffed in te reo Māori? The answers are all in Te Reo Kapeka ...Show more
There's a Weta On My Sweater: He Wētā kei runga i tōki Paraka by Dawn McMillan
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Irresistible rhymes and drawings * Bilingual English and Maori, in classy hardback * Companion volume to There's a Tui in our Teapot! Weta and friends, including beetle, centipede, stick insect and huhu, come to school with the kids. But they don't want to stay in the classroom! Can Koro help his mokopu ...Show more