The History Book (Miles Kelly)
28.00 NZD
Category: History
Explore fascinating events in history with this thrilling book. Packed with hundreds of detailed photographs and jaw-dropping facts, kids will be pulled in and engrossed from start to finish. The History Book uncovers spectacular constructions such as India’s Taj Mahal, extreme events such as the Black ...Show more
Mystery at the Museum (The Met) by Helen Friel
35.00 NZD
Category: Activity & Puzzle Books
An interactive choose-your-own-adventure style puzzle book follow-on to Lost In the Museum. Help William the hippo and his friends solve the puzzles and save the exhibition! William the hippo and his friends live on 5th Avenue, New York, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At night, when the museum i ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Treaty of Waitangi (magnetic story)
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
ANZAC Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Every year on the 25th of April, thousands of New Zealanders get up very early in the morning to join dawn parade ceremonies around the country. Later, many more people attend Anzac Day services to commemorate the soldiers who died at Gallipoli in 1915 and to celebrate the spirit of the ANZACs.A rich hi ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris; Ross Calman; Mark Derby; Piripi Walker
25.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books
Ground-breaking full-colour graphic novel about Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi. This reorua (bilingual) graphic-novel-style flip book presents important information in a visually appealing and engaging way. The text (in both English and te reo Māori) and illustrations work together to provi ...Show more
World War I (DK Eyewitness) (HB) by DK
26.00 NZD
Category: History
In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, go back in time and experience history with this picture-led guide to the First World War. From disaster to victory, Eyewitness World War I captivates readers and gives an insight into life in the muddy trenches, and what it was like to be a soldier, along ...Show more
The Curse of the Tomb Robbers: An Ancient Egyptian Puzzle Mystery (British Museum) by Andy Seed
23.00 NZD
Category: Activity & Puzzle Books
Learn how to read hieroglyphs in this compelling puzzle adventure story, publishing 200 years after the Rosetta Stone was deciphered!Written by award-winning author Andy Seed, in consultation with experts at the British Museum, and sumptuously illustrated in colour by highly acclaimed artist James Westo ...Show more
The Forgotten Prophet: Tāmati Te Ito and his Kaingārara Movement by Jeffrey Sissons
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Te Ito’s vision was one of pan-tribal unity; he wanted to bring together all the people of Taranaki ‘from Mokau to Pātea’. Tāmati Te Ito Ngāmoke led the prophetic Kaingārara movement in Taranaki from 1856. Te Ito was revered by tribal leaders as a prophetic tohunga matakite; but others, including many s ...Show more
My Aunt Honor by Gillian Torckler
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
My Aunt Honor was far from ordinary. She was extraordinary. She was inspirational. She was brave. During the Second World War Honor Hassett joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, defying the expectations of her family and friends to become one of the first female aircraft engineers. Follow Honor’s cour ...Show more
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World - Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (PB) by Yuval Noah Harari
32.00 NZD
Category: History
From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers. We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one of th ...Show more
Tragedy at Sea: The Sinking of the Titanic by David Long
18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Incredible True Stories
Discover the astonishing facts and catastrophic end of the Titanic in this illustrated, accessible, and riveting account of one of history's most famous disasters.