The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker
30.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah’s Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world. The Earth has flooded. The only signs of humankind are the waterlogged structures they left behind. Peeking out from the deluge are the remnants of a zoo, home to rare and endangered ani ...Show more
Begin Again: How We Got Here and Where We Might Go - Our human story. So far by Oliver Jeffers
33.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A powerful, thoughtful and bold comment on humanity and its future from one of today's most thought-provoking artists. In his first picture book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its future. Where are we going? With his bol ...Show more
Esio Trot (A4 Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Mr. Hoppy is in love with his neighbor, Mrs. Silver; but she is in love with someone else--Alfie, her pet tortoise. With all her attention focused on Alfie, Mrs. Silver doesn't even know Mr. Hoppy is alive. And Mr. Hoppy is to ...Show more
The Magic Finger (A4 Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl; Quentin Blake
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Every Saturday morning the Greg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting.Now it's made her so angry she's PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have be ...Show more
Simpson and his Donkey by Mark Greenwood
21.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
The heroic story of one man and a donkey - and the strange twist of fate that brought two boyhood friends together one last time during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. A poignant account of the story of John Kirkpatrick Simpson and how he and his donkey, Duffy, rescued over 300 men during the cam ...Show more
The Crown by Emily Kapff
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
"This is a book that begs us to change the world." Joseph Coelho, The Guardian Speaking from the future, a girl wears a crown made from the rubbish passed down to her by previous generations. Her Earth is covered by waste, but beneath the landfill she discovers a book of pictures that show her the past ...Show more
The BFG (Colour PB Edition) by Roald Dahl
30.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Gi ...Show more
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in glorious full colour. Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. And do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other children in this book are nasty little beasts, called- Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy ...Show more
The Paperbag Prince by Colin Thompson
32.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
The story of an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump who knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure; and that, if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make it green again. First published 1992.
James and the Giant Peach (A4 Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Roald Dahl Colour Editions
"James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled, and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and grow and grow. Inside that peach are seven ...Show more
Katie and the Spanish Princess by James Mayhew
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Katie
A fresh new look to celebrate 25 years of Katie making art an adventure! Katie needs ideas for a costume, and the princess dress in a painting seems the very thing. But she soon discovers that fancy clothes and adventures don't always mix. And wherever you find Katie, you'll find fun close behind! Bea ...Show more
The Rabbit and the Shadow by Melanie Rutten, Frith Williams
35.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Enter the wonderful world of the following curious cast: the Rabbit who wants to grow up, the anxious Stag, the Soldier at war, the Cat and his recurring dream, the Book that wants to know everything, and the Shadow. Over the course of ten short chapters they grow up, learn how to live together and to d ...Show more