Seven for a Secret by Laurence Anholt
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Ruby lives in the city and Grampa lives in the country. They write to each other and share the events in their lives. Ruby tells about the flights of stairs in their apartment block and the sights of the city. Grampa tells Ruby about the naughty magpies that live in his old oak tree. Through the Magpie ...Show more
Minah by Bronwyn Bancroft
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Whenever I used to see one of those old fellers going off with a spear for murrung - fish - I'd watch him. I'd run after him. I was only a little feller but I had a sense to follow and learn how to do all those things. Not everyone has someone to look up to and learn from in their life. But for this lit ...Show more
Goal! by Mina Javaherbin
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A lyrical, strikingly illustrated story celebrates the unifying power of soccer. In a dusty township in South Africa, Ajani and his friends have earned a brand-new, federation-size soccer ball. They kick. They dribble. They run. They score. These clever boys are football champions! But when a crew ...Show more
George and Flora's Big Party by Joanna Elizabeth Elworthy
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: George and Flora
Mum's broken her arm and George and Flora go and ask Grandpa to help with making jam tarts. While they are there, he asks them to drop some eggs off at his neighbours, and gradually they realize that no one in the street knows each other and want to help. So they organise an amazing street party with lo ...Show more
Ziba Came on a Boat (PB) by Liz Lofthouse
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Ziba came on a boat. A soggy old fishing boat that creaked and moaned as it rose and fell, rose and fell across an endless sea ...Based on real events, Ziba Came on a Boatis the moving story of a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. This beautiful picture book takes us on her brave journ ...Show more
FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
A young boy, bewitched by his fathers unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate craving that absorbs his every waking minute, finds himself entranced by the dream. When his father goes to war and does not return it seems the spell is broken . . Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once ...Show more
Anton and the Battle by Ole Könnecke
20.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books | Series: Anton
Starring Anton and Luke from Anton Can Do Magic (the USBBY winner and ReadBoston Award finalist), this is another funny, child-centred picture book, full of imagination. Anton and his friend Luke fight an epic battle to be declared the strongest - but will they be outdone by a puppy?
The World That We Want by Kim Michelle Toft
24.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
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Crossing (Trains) by Philip Booth
19.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Vivid images in both poem and paintings create a close-up view of a freight train traveling through a crossing--a dramatic experience for young readers. With the rhythm of its words recalling the cadence of a moving freight train, a poem by Philip Booth is fluidly joined with artwork by first-time illu ...Show more
Rosie's Magic Horse by Russell Hoban
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
This is a story that could have come only from the imagination of Russell Hoban, brought vividly to life by the picture-book supremo Quentin Blake. This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely...until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it ca ...Show more
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin
17.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
Ideal for bed time reading, this book will appeal to parents and children who love Grandfather Twilight and On the Night That You Were Born. Author, illustrator, and creator of The Black Apple Etsy shop, Emily Martin convinces children to close their eyes and discover who their dream animal might be and ...Show more
In Your Dreams by Sally Morgan
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
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