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Annual 2 by Kate De Goldi; Susan Paris

$40.00 NZD

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Category: Gift Books

Annual 2 contains all-new material for 9- to- 13-year-olds. The result is a highly original, contemporary take on the much-loved annuals of the past - all in one beautiful package. Alongside familiar names publishing for children - Gavin Mouldey, Sarah Johnson, Ben Galbraith, Barry Faville, Giselle Cla rkson, and Gregory O'Brien - you'll find the unexpected, including a new song by Bic Runga, a small-town mystery by Paul Thomas, and a classic New Zealand comic illustrated by new talent Henry Christian Slane. Smart and packed with content, a book for the whole family. ...Show more

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Grab Ya Boots! We're Going A-Hunting by Marion Day; Jason Day

$25.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Senior Fiction

Marion teams up with her hunting-mad son, Jason, and young Kiwi hunters to present an exciting collection of sporting and adventure stories, poems and 'a million things hunters should know'. Grab ya Boots will suit any intermediate child who loves the outdoors and loves adventure but who doesn't like to read a whole book. Some of the most heart-warming tales are about the unconditional love between a hunter and their dog. The book is illustrated with photographs, and quirky sketches by West Coast artist Robyn Hoglund. Each yarn might be true or partly true, or totally made up, and a cartoon story has been thrown in for good measure. There's a bit of fishing - like the great snapper story - and the tragedy of twin hunters who, like their grandfather, 'pass it on'. And even an unusual myth relating to possum fur and an African hunt. Most exciting and fresh are stories straight from the pens of our young huntsmen, every one with a photograph of them with their quarry. Grab Ya Boots! encourages children to put away their mobile phones, unplug themselves from technology and read. As they do, they'll be transported into the world of brave, bold, courageous, fearful and funny stories - even jokes. They'll be entertained and enthralled, and when they are finished, you can bet on them rushing outside to grab their boots. ...Show more

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The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology by Joy Cowley

$40.00 NZD

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4

Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions

Joy Cowley's favourite stories, poems and nonsense rhymes collected in a hardback gift volume for the family to treasure. It selects the best of Cowley's poems and stories to read aloud, including much-loved classics such as Greedy Cat and Nicketty-Nacketty Noo Noo Noo. Fully re-illustrated with humour and energy by newcomer Giselle Clarkson, these short stories, picture books and funny poems will bring joy to a new generation. ...Show more

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14 Blown Kisses by Wayne Youle

$20.00 NZD

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Category: Gift Books

When we’re apart from the ones we love, how do we get our kisses to them? We blow them! The blown kisses in this charming book travel far. Tied to a rocket, attached to a pigeon, kicked like a rugby ball – and many other imaginative ways. Wayne Youle (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke, Ngāti Pākehā) is one of A otearoa New Zealand’s leading contemporary artists. His work is bright, playful and full of kindness. Wayne lived in isolation for 14 days during the COVID-19 lockdown. He created 14 ways to share blown kisses with his sons. This book is dedicated to everyone around the world in lockdown who can only blow their kisses. A book for children. And a delightful gift for anyone. Available in te reo Māori and English. ...Show more

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How to Live with Mammals by Ash Davida Jane

$25.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Poetry

we love an underdog especially when it’s a whale we see ourselves in them literally in them lounging in their cathedral of a mouth just looking for love All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do we live in this place of so many others an d so many last things? How to Live With Mammals is not a book of instruction but a book of reimagining and a book of longing. In these funny and often poignant poems, Ash Davida Jane asks how we might reorient ourselves, and our ways of loving one another, as the futures that we once imagined grow ever more precarious. 'Urgent, funny and tender: these poems shine.' —Louise Wallace ...Show more

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On We Go by Catherine Bagnall & L. Jane Sayle

$35.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Poetry

A remarkable collaboration between an artist and a poet, On We Go belongs to the emerging forms of ecological thinking that cross genres and scientific disciplines, speaking directly about global warming and the perils facing the natural world.

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The Adventures of Tupaia by Courtney Sina Meredith & Mat Tait

$35.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

The incredible story of Tupaia, Tahitian priest navigator, who sailed on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook on his first voyage to Aotearoa. Follow Tupaia as he grows up in Ra'iatea, becoming a high-ranking 'arioi and master navigator. Join him as he meets up with Cook in Tahiti and sails as part of the crew on the Endeavour across the Pacific to Aotearoa. Witness the encounters between tangata whenua and the crew as the ship sails around the coast, and discover the important role Tupaia plays as translator and cultural interpreter. Written in dramatic prose and verse by Courtney Sina Meredith and stunningly illustrated in graphic style by Mat Tait, this is an essential book for all New Zealanders. ...Show more

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14 Nga Tohu Aroha Ka Tukuna by Wayne Youle

$20.00 NZD

Available Stock:
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Category: Te Reo Maori Language

When we’re apart from the ones we love, how do we get our kisses to them? We blow them! The blown kisses in this charming book travel far. Tied to a rocket, attached to a pigeon, kicked like a rugby ball – and many other imaginative ways. Wayne Youle (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke, Ngāti Pākehā) is one of A otearoa New Zealand’s leading contemporary artists. His work is bright, playful and full of kindness. Wayne lived in isolation for 14 days during the COVID-19 lockdown. He created 14 ways to share blown kisses with his sons. This book is dedicated to everyone around the world in lockdown who can only blow their kisses. A book for children. And a delightful gift for anyone. Available in te reo Māori and English. ...Show more

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Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh

$25.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Non Fiction

In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm inster Abbey. But when someone at work calls her a 'sellout', Selina starts doubting herself. Can she stand with her people who struggled against the Queen . . . and serve the Queen? From the sinking islands in the south seas to the smoggy streets of London, Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem is a hilariously thought-provoking take on colonial histories and one poet's journey to bridge the divide. Selina has to work out where she stands and how to be true to herself. She has to build a bridge from her sinking islands in the south seas to the smoggy streets of London. And she has to write a poem. None of it is easy. All of it is hilarious and moving. Featuring Megan and Harry, piglets and climate change, Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem is colonialism 101 for kids. It will make you laugh and make you think. ...Show more

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James K Baxter: Complete Prose by James K Baxter, ed. John Weir

$160.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good

James K. Baxter was a great twentieth-century poet. He once declared, ‘In contradiction . . . I was born.’Sometimes at odds with God, often at odds with conventional society, he was at the same time a profoundly religious man and a fearless social critic who insisted that love and compassion were the on ly cure for society’s ills. His Complete Prose chronicles his life and times, his preferences and prejudices, his crises and turbulentoccasions. Its contents are remarkable for their range, coherence and passionate integrity.This four-volume set contains over a million words, in the form of reviews, essays, lectures, journal articles,drafts and rough notes, meditations, fables, stories, a short novel, interviews, letters to the editor, correspondence with friends and critics, and diary entries, covering Baxter’s entire career, from his first draft of ‘Before Sunrise’ as a teenager in 1942 to his ‘Confession to the Lord Christ’ shortly before his death in 1972. Edited with scrupulous care by John Weir, Baxter’s friend and the foremost scholar of his work, it also includes an extensive introduction, notes and references, a glossary of Māori words and phrases, biographies of key people, an index and a bibliography. The Complete Prose is a testament to Baxter’s huge contribution to New Zealand literature, culture and society.4 hardback volumes with cloth spines presented in a box. Original paintings on box by Nigel Brown.Volume format: 152 x 232mmVol. 1 – 776ppVol. 2 – 712ppVol. 3 – 584ppVol. 4 – 592pp ...Show more

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How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)

$25.00 NZD

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Category: NZ Poetry

There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do n’t make me guilty. My world has a different measure.’ In January 2020 poet Ben Brown took a box of biros, an A4 ream of paper and a question to 28 YPs—young people—living in Te Puna Wai o Tūhinapō, the Oranga Tamariki youth justice residence next door to Rolleston Prison, south-west of Christchurch. He asked them, ‘How did you get here?’ Over four days of kōrero and collaboration, tautoko and awhi, the young men aged 13–18 wrote their answers as poems, which have been collected in a book, with illustrations by two of the participants. ...Show more

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Seagull Seagull: Poems by James K. Baxter by James K. Baxter

$30.00 NZD

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On Order:
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Category: NZ Poetry

A new gift edition of James K Baxter's classic poems for children, illustrated by Kieran Rynhart. The poems in Seagull Seagull are light and easy read-alouds for classrooms or with toddlers-on-the-couch. James K Baxter wrote these poems when he was teaching in Lower Hutt in the 1950s. Successful in the classroom, they have been regularly reprinted in anthologies and collections and remain popular for their accessible rhythms, humour, and quintessentially New Zealand settings. This new gift edition of Baxter's poems is illustrated by Kieran Rynhart in dramatic spreads and beautifully drawn details. ...Show more

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