Category: NZ Middle Fiction
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Mini Whinny
Mini Whinny, the mischievous little horse, plans to escape her annoyingly perfect stable neighbour! Goody Four-Shoes is the best...at everything. She's graceful. She can jump really, really high. And her mane is too perfect. Mini Whinny does not like her. Not one little bit. So naughty little Mini Whinn ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
In February 2019, a tiny spark in a Pigeon Valley paddock became the largest fire in New Zealand since 1955. Up to 150 volunteer firefighters fought the blaze. Around 3,500 people were evacuated, including the whole town of Wakefield. Dozer the cat was evacuated from Wakefield too, but went missing the ...Show more
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Miniwings
Sshh... NOT for parents! You can keep a SECRET, right? Clara and I have a herd of tiny, talking, oopsie-whoopsie, flying horses-and they're REAL! It's true. Those naughty Miniwings get us into so much TROUBLE, especially that RAZZLY-DAZZLY UNICORN, Moonlight!
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
War destroyed their worlds, now two young girls and their remarkable horses are fighting once more - this time to win. When twelve-year-old Mira stumbles across a white stallion in a forest in Berlin, she doesn't realise that this horse will take her on an incredible journey. Together, they're going to ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
A bright and beautiful exploration of the big bang theory and the birth of our solar system for young children, all wrapped up in a bedtime story. Abigail is a curious little girl. She likes to discover the answers to really BIG questions. One night, she thinks of a question that's SO BIG she can't sle ...Show more
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Flit the Fantail
Flit has found some eggs ... but whose could they be? It is a misty morning in the forest. Flit the fantail chick is practising his landings. Flap, flop, slip, FLIP. Flit slips on something slippery and round. He has stumbled upon eight rubbery white eggs. Join Flit and his friends, Kiki the kaka, rasc ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Gecko Press Titles Ser.
In this resonant story, Cam the mountain boy follows the river from its trickling source in the mountain snow all the way to the coast. The river leads him through forest, farms, and towns to the salty wind of the sea. Dramatic landscape illustrations evoke a North American landscape and are packed with ...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: NZ Young Adult Fiction
Fox is a fringe dweller, with a T branded on his cheek that marks him a thief. He lives on his wits and moves from village to village. As the story opens he sees a commotion and finds Wynter, chained by her father, working as a water diviner. She finds water for the drought-strapped village, but ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
Two boisterous boys who made lots of noise, found it dreadfully hard to be good;always charging and barging, fighting and biting, and not acting quite as they should.Patrick and Wayne drove their parents insane, but they could be good if they tried.Still, they’d roar and they’d claw, they&rs ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Tales of Aotearoa
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of HOW Maui slowed the journey of the sun through the sky each day! The traditional tale but with Donovan's unique twist and trademark humour. The pictures are bright and bring their own level of humour to the book. Darryn Joseph ensures that the story is accurate and ...Show more
