Living World
The study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy.
Category: Animals
True tales of wild and wonderful lives to be treasured forever! In this fascinating and touching book, children can learn about 50 courageous creatures from around the world and throughout history. This captivating collection gathers heart-warming, surprising and often emotionally powerful stories of b ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A spectacular illustrated picture book exploring New Zealand's unique landscapes and its incredible wildlife by the award-winning author of Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story. Long before waka touched Aotearoa's shores, the land of the long white cloud was home to an array of creatures uniquely adapted to ...Show more
Category: Animals
Get ready for a whole new look at the world around you. You're about to meet the weirdest, wildest and most amazing animals on the planet. Are zombie jellyfish real? Do frogs like opera? Which animals eat poop? (And more importantly, WHY?!) What's it like to wrestle a python ...Show more
Category: Human Body | Series: Senses
What does it feel like when you stroke a cat? How does your body tell you when it is hurting? Which part of your body has the toughest skin - and which is the most sensitive? All these questions and more to help you really understand what the sense of touch is all about. The series, Senses, is an engagi ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In the garden, creeping along branches, hiding under stones or flitting from flower to flower, a whole universe of creatures is waiting to be discovered. Butterflies, moths, beetles, wasps, spiders - what have you found in your backyard? Did you know that chorus cicadas live underground for most of the ...Show more
Category: Bugs and Insects
The photographic story of Muriel, a monarch butterfly, and how she grows from a tiny white egg to emerge from her chrysalis as a beautiful butterfly.
Category: Animals
Did you know that there are over 4,000 known species of frog? Some are bigger than your dinner plate, while others are small enough to sit on your fingernail, and in between is about every colour and size you can imagine! Leap into this fascinating illustrated guide to the most diverse amphibians ...Show more
Category: Animals
There's no shortage of stories these days about the impact humans have had on the planet. There's plastic in our oceans and rubbish in our streets. More and more animals and plants are declared vulnerable, threatened or endangered every year and extinctions are occuring at a rate not experienced since t ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their diffe ...Show more
Category: Human Body | Series: Senses | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
How many taste buds does the human tongue have? Why do some things taste good and some taste bad? Why is your tongue so long and bendy - and which other parts of the body help us to taste things? All these questions and more to help you really understand what the sense of taste is all about. The series, ...Show more
Category: Animals | Series: Lifecycles
Introducing simple biology in a detailed and fascinating way, From Egg to Chicken traces the lifecycle of this familiar animal. Reproduction, birth, growth, food and survival are all covered in these beautifully illustrated books. Lifecycles is a series of four books that focus on animals and plants fa ...Show more
