Emma - Emma Twigg's Inspirational Journey to Olympic Gold by Jessica Lawry
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
THOSE WHO GET BACK UP, TIME AND TIME AGAIN, WILL BE REWARDED. When Emma Twigg started rowing it was difficult and not always fun. But as she stuck at it, she grew to be a world-class rower. So, winning an Olympic medal would be easy, right? Wrong. This is the remarkable true story of a young New Zealand ...Show more
Incredible Journeys (PB) by Ned Barraud
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Many New Zealand's animals make incredible journeys as part of their everyday lives. In this new book from leading author and illustrator Ned Barraud, he uncovers the mystery behind where many of our animals go. Toroa/albatross can spend years at sea roaming the windswept Southern Ocean, only coming as ...Show more
Mozart: the Man behind the Music by Donovan Bixley
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Child prodigy, genius, freak, a man who lived frivolously and died a pauper... The myths surrounding Mozart, composer of some of the world's most sublime music, have long overtaken the known facts of his life. Now, in this charming and very personal tribute, artist Donovan Bixley offers a portrait of th ...Show more
He Raiona i Roto i nga Otaota (A Lion in the Meadow - Maori edition) by Margaret Mahy (translated by Piripi Walker)
22.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Maori language edition of this much-loved classic, translated by Piripi Walker. When the little boy tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow, she decides to make up a story for him too and gives him a matchbox with a tiny dragon inside.
Bonjour Lucy Bee (#2 Lucy Bee) by Anne Ingram
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Lucy Bee
Lucy and her mother are in France for the summer to visit family. As they arrive they pass refugees, who are not welcome in this little village. Then valuables are stolen and the young refugees are accused. Lucy sides with the refugees - this could be dangerous.
Maui me te Ahi a Mahuika (#3 Purakau o Aotearoa) by Donovan Bixley; Darryn Joseph; Keri Opai
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: Pūrākau o Aotearoa
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Maui captured the secret of fire. 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 and Keri Opai ensure that the story is accurate and culturally appr ...Show more
Paraweta: Maori Edition Poo Bum by Stephanie Blake
19.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Once there was a little rabbit who could only say one thing… In the morning his mother would say, ‘Time to get up, my little rabbit!’ He’d reply: ‘Poo bum!’At lunchtime his father would say, ‘Eat your spinach, my little rabbit!’ He’d reply: ‘Poo bum!’ One day, he meets a hungry wolf. Will the little r ...Show more
Encounters: Nga Tai Whakarongorua by Rebecca Rice & Matariki Williams
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The portrait wall in Toi Art, the art gallery within New Zealands national museum, Te Papa, is the most popular art exhibition for museum visitors. Hung salon-style on dark red walls, its 36 arresting portraits span historical portraiture to contemporary practice, and represent mana. Some trumpet the st ...Show more
Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga by Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Stepping Up: Covid 19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case studies of four different checkpoints are examined, each of which looked slightly different, but all of which we ...Show more
Labour of Love - A Personal History of Midwifery in Aotearoa by Joan Skinner
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Joan Skinner has been a midwife since 1976 and has seen extraordinary change, both in the way women are supported to give birth and in the social and political context in which they become mothers. Labour of Love weaves her own experiences as a midwife into the story of childbirth in Aotearoa: the incre ...Show more
My First Words in Maori Flashcards by Stacey Morrison
25.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Help your tamariki to korero Māori with these illustrated flashcards designed to partner with Stacey Morrison's My First Words in Maori. Flashcards are a great way to have fun with tamariki on their language journey. Designed by Maori language champion Stacey Morrison, with adorable pictures by Ali Teo ...Show more
Knowledge is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020 by Anne Salmond
65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
For fifty years, Dame Anne Salmond has navigated 'te ao hurihuri' - travelling to hui in her little blue VW Beetle with Eruera and Amiria Stirling in the 1970s, working for a university marae alongside Merimeri Penfold, Patu Hohepa and Wharetoroa Kerr in the 1980s, giving evidence to the Waitangi Tribun ...Show more