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World's Cutest Animals by Anna Poon
17.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Lonely Planet Kids
Warning: you may want to cuddle this book! We've found the planet's cutest animals and squeezed them inside this adorable title. From fluffy pandas and penguin chicks to pygmy possums and inquisitive quokkas, discover a mix of family favourites and lesser-known critters, all accompanied with fun facts a ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
32.00 NZD
Category: Plants & Trees
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names by Matthew Murrie; Steve Murrie
35.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Kids love science, kids love animals, and kids love everything - everything - weird. Introducing The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Wild, Wacky Names, a science-based illustrated celebration of creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names. Meet the Waxy ...Show more
Masters of Disguise by Marc Martin
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Now you see them, now you don't! Cloaked in a riot of colour, pattern and texture are a dozen animals - from chameleons and polar bears to Gaboon vipers and mimic octopuses - that have mastered the art of fading into the background. Fact-packed pages segue into clever and beautifully illustrated seek-an ...Show more
Freaky, Funky Fish: Odd Facts about Fascinating Fish by Debra Kempf Shumaker
28.00 NZD
Category: Sealife
The world of fish is a whacky and wonderful place, filled with stingers and singers, climbers and slimers. This adorable non-fiction picture book is a deep-dive into the incredible diversity that can be found beneath the waves.
How did I get here? by Philip Bunting
20.00 NZD
Category: Science
The (unauthorised) biography of you, and the story of all of us.Charting from the Big Bang to birth, Philip Bunting takes us on a journey back to the start of time (in about the time it takes to eat your breakfast!). A hilarious, and beautifully illustrated book, designed to raise more questions than i ...Show more
Atlas Of Amazing Migrations by Matt Sewell
35.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Matt Sewell is back with a sumptuous celebration of our planet's most extreme journeys. This is his own personal selection of the most amazing mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects and even plants that battle through the Earth's toughest conditions in order to survive. Follow flocks of arctic terns on ...Show more
Extraordinary Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life Visual Encyclopedia by .
37.00 NZD
Category: Dinosaurs
Whether browsing for fun or just looking up that key fact, children will be drawn in and mesmerised by the hundreds of exciting images and surprising information in these dinosaur profiles.Dinosaur reconstructions and the latest fossil finds bring back to life the bone-crunching teeth of the Tyrannosaur ...Show more
With a Little Kelp from Our Friends- Secret Life of Seaweed by Mathew Bate
35.00 NZD
Category: Plants & Trees
Did you know that feeding seaweed to cows can reduce the methane in their burps and farts by more than half? Or that a forest of kelp absorbs more carbon than a tropical rainforest of the same size? We can even make edible bioplastics from seaweed! Beyond the tideline, there are around 10,000 types of s ...Show more
The Natural History Book: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth by DK
75.00 NZD
Category: Earth Science
A beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history, including its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, microorganisms and more!Introducing The Natural History Book - a complete guide to the nature and wildlife of our world and written by a worldwide team of natural history experts. In the 11 ...Show more
Adventures with Finn and Skip: Bee by Brendan Kearney
18.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
Buzz off on a new adventure in this sweet and timely story book that introduces children to the environmental concerns facing our bees. From award-winning author Brendan Kearney comes the fourth action-packed adventure for Finn and his dog, Skip, that teaches them all about bees and what they can do to ...Show more
Extraordinary Elephants by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Extraordinary Elephants is the brilliant new book in Team Flannery's fascinating animal picture-book series that shines the spotlight on some of the most beloved and surprising creatures around the world! There's so much more to elephants than their enormous size! Have you heard about their excellent me ...Show more