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
George's Marvellous Medicine (A4 Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Roald Dahl Colour Editions
George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman.One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine.So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do.A magic medicine* it will be. One that will either cure her completely . . . or ...Show more
Have You Seen Elephant? by David Barrow
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Elephant wants to play hide and seek. You can play too, but you'll have to try your best - he's VERY good! Have You Seen Elephant is an absurd and heart-warming picture book from a brilliant storyteller with perfect comic timing. Watch out for the dog and the tortoise, too...
Matilda (Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Roald Dahl's much-loved Matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour. Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the wo ...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 Tree and the River by Aaron Becker
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form. For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civil ...Show more
Animalia by Graeme Base
26.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffins Ser.
Within the pages of this book You may discover, if you look Beyond the spell of written words, A hidden land of beasts and birds. For many things are 'of a kind,' And those with keenest eyes will find A thousand things, or maybe more It's up to you to keep the s ...Show more
There's a Sea in my Bedroom by Margaret Wild, Jane Tanner
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffins Ser.
David is frightened of the sea. He does not like it at all, not one bit. But then one day he finds a conch shell at the beach and takes it home - and he hears the sea trapped inside. 'Come out, sea, come out,' he says softly. 'I won't hurt you.' This beautifully illustrated story by award winning author ...Show more
Mr Miniscule and the Whale by Julian Tuwim
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Tiny Mr Miniscule longs to see a big blue whale - the biggest animal ever. A wee man, a whale of a time, and a whopping big surprise! This timeless Polish children's classic is finally available in English.
Through the Magic Mirror by Anthony Browne
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Toby is fed up. Fed up with books, fed up with toys, fed up with everything. But when he walks through the magic mirror, things are amazingly different. Toby can hardly believe his eyes! Anthony Browne's first book is full of the surreal details and visual humour that have made him one of the world's mo ...Show more
The Waterhole by Graeme Base
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Down to the secret waterhole the animals all come,As seasons bring forth drought and flood, they gather there as one.United in their common need, their numbers swell to ten,But hidden deep amongst the trees lie ten times that again! The Waterholeis an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, sto ...Show more
How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson
28.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library. At night, when the library comes to life, Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume - How To Live Forever .