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The Christmas Looky Book by Donovan Bixley
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
If you loved Donovan Bixley's bestselling LOOKY BOOK, you will adore THE CHRISTMAS LOOKY BOOK - a hilarious 24-page festive puzzle book with hours of quality fun for readers aged five and up. Spot the difference: Santa has been and changed around the Christmas decorations; match the New Zealanders to th ...Show more
The Top Secret Interdimensional Notes of Buttons McGinty (#2) by Rhys Darby
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Buttons McGinty
Comedian Rhys Darby delivers more words AND more pictures in his second hilarious book for kids! Buttons McGinty is back and this time he's travelling through space and time...in search of his parents (missing, presumed missing). Join Buttons and his friends as they enter a universe unlike any youve s ...Show more
The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology by Joy Cowley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
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
The Great White Man-Eating Shark by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!
The Inkberg Enigma by Jonathan King
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
A graphic-novel mystery adventure for eight- to twelve-year-olds in which a girl and boy uncover the secret that has corrupted their seaside town. "Haven't you always thought there's something WEIRD about this town, Miro?" Miro and Zia live in Aurora, a fishing town nestled in the shadow of an ancient c ...Show more
The Top Secret Undercover Notes of Buttons McGinty (#1) by Rhys Darby
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Buttons McGinty
The shining star of madcap mayhem RHYS DARBY delivers out-of-this-world absurdity with his first hilarious mystery-comedy book for kids! Crack the crazy Morse codes and unleash the action with bogus baddies, a burly bigfoot and McGinty's mission to find his parents, who have been pronounced missing, pre ...Show more
Tu Meke Tui (HB) by Malcolm Clarke
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Tu Meke Tui is a lusciously illustrated, tenderly told story of friendship, courage and celebrating difference.
Tui Street Tales (#1) by Anne Kayes
$16.99 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Tui Street
Once upon a time some fairy tales came to Tui Street and visited the people who lived there. There were some problems in the street: Jack's mother had secrets, the creek had dried up and Terri was being cyber-bullied, to name a few. Following a fairy tale project at school, the children began to notice ...Show more
We've Got a Boat (Book & CD) by Jay Laga'aia
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
We've got a boat that flies across the water. Weve got a boat that flies across the sea. You know this boat, it sailed from Aotearoa. It stays afloat because its carried by Kiwis. Join Team Kiwi and sail away on a boat guided by ancient waka, woven with flax sails, powered by a taniwha and bound for vic ...Show more
1914: Riding into War (Kiwis at War #1) by Susan Brocker
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Kiwis at War | Reading Level: very good
Young Billy Bowman and his mate Jack get caught up in the excitement when war is declared in August 1914 and leave their jobs on the farm to rush off and enlist in the Mounted Rifles - because the war would 'probably be over by Christmas'. We follow their journey from the Awapuni training camp, to more ...Show more
1917: Machines of War (Kiwis at War #4) by Brian Falkner
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Kiwis at War
Seventeen year old Bob Sunday has stolen his brothers identity to enlist in WW1. Keith was killed at Gallipoli, so doesnt need it any more, anyway. But Bob is keen to join the Royal Flying Corps, and soon finds himself flying patrols over the front line in France, up against the likes of the Red Baron M ...Show more
Canterbury Quake: Christchurch, 2010-11 (My New Zealand Story) by Desna Wallace
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
Anyone would think Maddy's world had crumbled when she didn't get a cell phone for her eleventh birthday. But Maddy soon has far more important things to worry about. In the dark of night, with a terrifying rumble and a deafening roar, the world turns upside down! Suddenly, words like 'liquefaction', 'a ...Show more