Ihenga (Book & CD) by Aunty Bea - Piatarihi Tui Yates
25.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
A bilingual picturebook written by Beatrice Yates (Aunty Bea) with CD narration and waiata by the author, along with Rodger Cunningham and Rehua Mihaka. This book follows on from One Day a Taniwha and Hoha te Taniwha. They are fun and easy to read with superb illustrations by Kat Quin Merewether
Nga Wira o Te Pahi (The Wheels on the Bus) by Donovan Bixley
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
"Nga wira o te pahi ka taka huri huri ..." E mohio whanuitia ana tenei waiata. Engari, inaianei kei te haere te pahi huri noa i to tatou whenua ataahua o Aotearoa nei, a, ka mohio pea koe ki etahi o nga kaieke: a Kiwi, a Hoiho, a Tuatara, a Piwakawaka, a wai atu, a wai atu. Ekea te pahi, waiatatia mai! ...Show more
Ko Flit, Te Tīrairaka me Ngā Hēki Muna by Kat Quin; Ngaere Roberts
20.00 NZD
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, rasca ...Show more
Avis and the Promise of Dragons by Heather McQuillan
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Avis has a dream to work with animals, so when a scientist with a witchy-looking house offers her a job as a pet-sitter she jumps at the chance. But it turns out Avis is not looking after pets at all - the animals in Dr Malinda Childes backyard are as eccentric as she is and Avis has to promise to keep ...Show more
Ko Tōku Māmā te Kuini o te Rori by Jennifer Beck, Kawata Teepa (Translated by)
22.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
This book is the te reo Māori edition of My Mum is the Queen of the Road. Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen ...Show more
Ihaka and the Unexpected Visitor / Ko Ihaka me te Manuwhiri i Puta Ohorere mai (MAORI ed) by Kirsty Wadsworth
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
Tawhirimatea is the Maori god of wind and storms. When one of his little rainclouds goes missing, Tawhirimatea swirls by Ihaka's house to get the little boy's help in finding the little lost cloud. It is needed for an imminent rainstorm. So off the two go to check in with the gods Tangaroa, Tane and Rau ...Show more
Hot Air (#2 Flying Furballs) by Donovan Bixley
15.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Flying Furballs
Our hero is Claude D'Bonair, a young pilot in the Cat Air Corp, keen to prove his worth to the older pilots and live up to the memory of his father. Will cats and dogs ever live in harmony again? And will Claude survive with his nine lives intact? In book two, Hot Air, Claude D'Bonair and his friend Syd ...Show more
Catch Me When You Fall (#1 Catch Me When You Fall) by Eileen Merriman
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction
A love story peppered with sadness and featuring two heroes who will break your heart and then mend it again. Alex meets Jamie at the same time as finding out that her leukaemia has returned. She discovers that he is bipolar, but he is also irresistible. It complicates things. Alex and Jamie sweep reade ...Show more
Nga Taonga e Waru ma Te Wheke [ Ngā Taonga e Waru mā Te Wheke (The Eight Gifts of Te Wheke Te Reo Māori Edition) ] by Steph Matuku; Laya Mutton-Rogers; Kawata Teepa
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
He tino rawe ki a Te Wheke te kohikohi taonga, he moni kaitiora, he peara muramura, he rama pīataata, he taonga tawhito, ērā momo mea katoa. Engari i tētahi rangi, ka kaiponu ia ki ngā taonga e waru, kāre e kore . . . he raru kei te haere.
Maumahara Ki Tera Noema (Remember That November - Maori Edition) by Jennifer Beck
20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
It’s almost Guy Fawkes Night, and at the school speech competition Andy talks about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. The children cheer excitedly, thinking Andy will win the contest. But then, Aroha gets up, wearing a white feather in her hair, and tells the story of another fifth of November - the in ...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
Shock Forest and Other Magical Stories by Margaret Mahy
12.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Readers
A magical collection of short stories from double Carnegie Medal winner Margaret Mahy. A wizard's house with coloured windows that look into worlds of treetops and deserts, cloud-castles and diamonds. Two riddles that, once solved, will stop Shock Forest from burning. A flute-playing bear and a boy who ...Show more