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
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Plans for the Newtoun community’s Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra’s practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi’s trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty … and Ms Ropata’s juggling it all because everyone wants in. There’ll be curry and cake, ka ...Show more
Bravo Mr William Shakespeare! by Marcia Williams
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Seven classic Shakespeare plays presented in an accessible comic strip format. The Globe Theatre is delighted to announce a new season of Mr. William Shakespeare's plays! Prithee take your place once more for a performance of seven of the Bard's finest tales. See As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Ri ...Show more
Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: The\Boy Ser.
In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole... The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together... That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignori ...Show more
Into the Forest by Anthony Browne
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
An atmospheric exploration of a child's anxiety by the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal Winner. One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking, lightning flashing across the sky. In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn't seem to know when he'll be back. The next day Mum asks her so ...Show more
Waves: For Those Who Come Across the Sea by Donna Rawlins
30.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Waves is a narrative non-fiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia. Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled ...Show more
The Hidden Forest by Jeannie Baker
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Looking for his lost fish trap, Ben thinks he sees something dark moving under the water. Is it a creature or only his imagination? Diving into the sea with his friend Sophie, he is amazed to discover a wonderful hidden world - and the rich variety of creatures that live there.
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture shows the developments of the land being reclaimed from built up concrete to a gradual greening, shown through the artist's collage illustrations. This is a hopeful environmental message.
Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Handa
Handa carries seven delicious fruits to her friend Akeyo as a surprise, but meets some hungry animals along the way. READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers' confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indi ...Show more
The Happiest Boy on Earth (HB) by Eddie Jaku
30.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie lived with his family and adorable dachshund, Lulu, in the beautiful city of Leipzig in Germany. But one day, into the sunshine of his childhood crept a dark, heavy cloud. Not a rain cloud. Much worse than that. Adolf Hitler came to ...Show more
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!Fantastic Mr Fox - the legendary tale of the most cunning fox in the world. Boggis is an enormously fat chicken farmer who only eats boiled chickens smothered in fat.Bunce is a duck-and-goose farmer whose dinner gives him a ...Show more
Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak
22.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or ...Show more