Te Ata o Tū: The Shadow of Tumatauenga by Matiu Baker, Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice (editors)
70.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The New Zealand Wars of 1845-72 were a series of bitter and bloody conflicts between Maori and Pakeha that extended from Wairau to the Bay of Islands, and from Taranaki to the East Cape. They are as important to New Zealand as the civil wars were to England and to the United States. Land and sovereignty ...Show more
Understanding Te Tiriti: A handbook of basic facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi by Roimata Smail
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Understanding Te Tiriti: A Handbook of Basic Facts about Te Tiriti o Waitangi by Roimata Smail distills essential information for every individual in Aotearoa. Leveraging her two-decades of legal expertise in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Smail presents the facts in this short book in a way that is easy to dige ...Show more
Ka Maumahara Tonu / Remembering (#17 Te Reo Singalong + CD) by Sharon Holt
26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Te Reo Singalong
A young girl asks her grandfather about his grandfather, who served at Gallipoli. In a gentle way the book pulls together many threads about remembering those who have passed away. At the end the girl and her grandfather find a place to remember each other. The book includes a singalong CD, guitar chor ...Show more
The Three-Legged Cat by Margaret Mahy
21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Mrs Gimble's cat would love to prowl, but has only three legs. Mrs Gimble's brother, who prowls the world, comes to visit and mistakes the cat for his hat ...A gloriously funny picture book. First published 1993.
Ko Flit, te Tirairaka me te Mahere Matariki (Flit the Fantail and the Matariki Map - Maori Edition) by Kat Quin
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Flit the Fantail
Join Flit the fantail and his forest friends on a nighttime adventure, this time to capture a star shining brightly on the horizon. It is one of a cluster of nine stars and Flit is determined to explore! But when he gets lost, wise Ruru swoops down and Flit learns about Matariki stars and navigation. ...Show more
Rock Pools: A Guide for Kiwi Kids (PB) by Ned Barraud
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
What New Zealand child is not delighted by a rockpool at low tide, with its colourful, fascinating array of creatures, some still, some flitting about? Rockpools is a book designed to enhance this experience, with each page presenting an intriguing glimpse into the creatures that inhabit these low-tide ...Show more
Tiaki: A Shout-out to Aotearoa's Lesser-known Creatures by Jean Donaldson
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
This book is a shout-out to the weird and wonderful endangered species in Aotearoa, those lesser-known creatures that don't regularly make the news. But they are just as important as the 'stars' like kakapo and kiwi, for they are the foundation of our unique biodiversity. 'Tiaki' includes such exotic a ...Show more
Dead Girl Gone (The Bookshop Detectives) by Gareth and Louise Ward
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty debut novel, full of literary clues, sparkling dialogue, and comedic insights into the world of bookshops. "When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. People warned ...Show more
The Book Collector - Reading and Living with Literature by Tony Eyre
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The Book Collector is a fascinating bibliomemoir of the writer’s lifetime joy of reading, the books and authors that have touched him, and how they have shaped his passion for book collecting. Step into his library, where the book is ‘a tangible object of sentiment and delight’ and experience his fondne ...Show more
The Edible Backyard: A Practical Guide to Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables All Year Round by Kath Irvine
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they ne ...Show more
Fragments from a Contested Past (BWB Texts) by Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a future with a different, or wider, set of priorities.’ History has rarely felt more topical or relevant as, all across ...Show more
Sniff-Snuff-Snap! (PB) by Lynley Dodd
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Children will love counting the animals in this much-loved story from Lynley Dodd. 'EEEEEEEE!' squealed the warthog, 'SNIFF-SNUFF-SNAP!' He chased them away . . . BUT they all sneaked back. It's a hot day and bossy old warthog is thirsty. But so are the other animals. Will there be enough water for the ...Show more