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 ...Show more
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 ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to f ...Show more
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 th ...Show more
Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
“One thing I wish people understood about me is that I have a story to tell” — Elaf Abduljawad, age 11 The Jillion is a collection of incredible work from Toitoi Issues 1-12. Written and illustrated by New Zealand’s young writers and artists ages 5-13, the Jillion is a celebra ...Show more
Category: Songs & Music
Hot on the scuffed up heels of Anika’s first children’s album, the multi-award winning Songs for Bubbas, comes it's younger, naughtier twin. Full of delight and mystery, Songs for Bubbas 2 promises to cast a spell of wonderment on your preschoolers. Anika&rsq ...Show more
Category: Songs & Music
Bite Me is the fabulous new CD from fleaBITE. Surreal, crazy and fun fun fun. Bite Me is bursting with 11 juicy new songs to sink your fangs into. fleaBITE have won the Best Children's Music Album Award twice for Circus of Fleas and The Jungle Is Jumping and the Best Children's ...Show more
Category: NZ Non Fiction
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 ...Show more
Category: NZ Picture Books
The great Kiwi summer conjures images of the beach, swimming, boating, fishing, families, friends adventures ... This collection of seven stories and ten poems capture that quintessential summer feeling, and is perfect summertime reading to share with children. Dive in to find all sorts of treasures by ...Show more
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource.
Category: Songs & Music
Anika Moa returns with the third instalment of her hugely successful Songs For Bubbas series. Packed full of musical treats for your tamariki, the album features Julia Deans, Anna Coddington and Steph Brown. Track Listing: Disc 1: Ngā Tae O Te Uenuku Mrs Heather Fiddly Widdly Bum ...Show more
Category: NZ Poetry
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers. David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, sno ...Show more
