Rona and the Moon by Peter Gossage
21.00 NZD
Category: Maori Myths and Legends
Rona is charged with the important task of making food ready for her family when they return from a fishing trip. As night falls, she uses the moon to light her way. But when the moon slides behind a cloud she becomes angry and a curse sprays from her mouth. The moon does not take her curse lightly ... ...Show more
Dunger by Joy Cowley
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
William and Melissa have been roped into helping their weird grandparents fix up their holiday home in the country. How will they cope with no electricity, no mobile phone reception and only each other for company?
Tamatekapua (Book & CD) by Aunty Bea - Piatarihi Tui Yates
38.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Tamatekapua was a young mischievous boy who lived in "Hawaiiki", with his brother Whakaturia they got into all sorts of mischief which led them to finally building a waka and taking some of their people in search of a new land and home in Aotearoa. The story tells about these times, the voyage and final ...Show more
Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
From the Chatham Islands/ Rekohu to London, from 1835 to the 21st century, this quietly powerful and compelling novel confronts the complexity of being Moriori, Maori and Pakeha.In the 1880s, Mere yearns for independence. Iraia wants the same but, as the descendant of a slave, such things are hardly con ...Show more
1915: Wounds of War (Kiwis at War) by Diana Menefy
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Kiwis at War
Mel and her cousin Harriet are keen to nurse brave Kiwi boys fighting in the Great War, half a world away. But when they join the NZ Army Nursing Service and board a hospital ship headed for Egypt, Anzac Cove and beyond, they have little idea of the horrors they will face, the wounds they will tend, and ...Show more
Toakase's Tapa: A Story from the Islands of Tonga (Children of the Pacific) by Jill MacGregor
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Children of the Pacific
Toakase lives in Tonga near the tombs where the first Kings of Tonga are buried. Her village is famous for the beautiful tapa barkcloths the women make for special occasions
The Walking Tree: A Story from the Islands of Vanuatu (Children of the Pacific) by Jill MacGregor
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Children of the Pacific
Florence (Filo) lives in Vanuatu on a small island called Nguna where the pandanus tree leaves provide thatch for their roof, handles for baskets and mats for many occasions.
Show Day: A Story from the Island of Niue (Children of the Pacific) by Jill MacGregor
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Children of the Pacific
It's Show Day in Livisia's and Hunter's village of Alofi south on the island of Niue and they prepare special food for the fiafia kai (celebration feast) and practise their items for the concert.
The Looky Book (Board) by Donovan Bixley
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books
The Looky Book is a puzzle book mostly for young children with 11 different puzzles all with colourful New Zealand landscapes, birds and animals. Find the numbers with the crazy All Black lambs, spot the difference: the mischievous keas have changed around somebody's campervan, find the animals hidden d ...Show more
Ko Rama (Rasmas Maori) by Elizabeth Pulford
22.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Moving with his dad to live on Grandma's farm turns out to be great fun for Danny. He makes friends with a wee goat - also motherless, just like Danny - and they have many adventures together. Then Dad marries again, and they move to the city ...will Danny ever see Rasmas again? A moving story of frien ...Show more
Charlie and the War Against the Grannies by Alan Brough
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Charlie
My name is Charlie Ian Duncan. I will be 12 on 2 February. I have written this history of my war with the grannies because I need everyone to know that I didn't mean for Mrs Cyclopolos to blow up. I just wanted a paper round.When I say 'my war with the grannies', I really mean the war I waged alongside ...Show more
1916: Dig for Victory (Kiwis at War) by David Hair
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction | Series: Kiwis at War
As we Otago lads have only enough men for two squadrons, the General has decided that we are to be merged with the incoming Maori contingents to form a new battalion. Our new battalion will be Pioneers, doing behind-the-lines work: building barracks, railroads, roads and trenches. As you can imagine, Fa ...Show more