The Apprentice Witnesser by Bren MacDibble
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
That's what my photos are. Little moments. All the good moments, the kind moments, the moments of care and love that, if you add them all together, make a life sweet. Bastienne Scull is a young orphan who lives with the local Witnesser of Miracles, Lodyma Darsey, who investigates 'miraculous events' an ...Show more
The Grimmelings by Rachael King
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
The same evening Josh Underhill went missing, the black horse appeared on the hill above the house. Thirteen-year-old Ella knows that words are powerful. So she should have known better than to utter a wish and a curse on the same day, even in jest. When the boy she has cursed goes missing, in the same ...Show more
Brown Bird by Jane Arthur
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Sometimes it can take one special friend to show you what you’re capable of, even if does take you a while to believe it. Eleven-year-old Rebecca tries to make herself invisible so people won’t call her weird. Resigned to spending the holidays by herself in a new neighbourhood while her mum works long h ...Show more
Counting for Kiwi Babies (Board) by Matthew Williamson; Fraser Williamson
$13.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: For Kiwi Babies
Beautiful pictures of New Zealand birds are the perfect introduction to numbers and counting for Kiwi babies. This simple and eye-catching board book, with numbers in English and Maori, will delight our littlest learners. It is the ideal companion to Colours for Kiwi Babies.
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand by Haruki Murakami
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this three-volume series, Murakami's best-loved stories are available i ...Show more
Cyclone Bola: Gisborne, 1988 (My New Zealand Story) by Kath Beattie
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
March 2013 marks the 25th anniversary of Cyclone Bola was one of the costliest cyclones in the history of New Zealand. When Amy’s parents decide to go and sail a yacht back to New Zealand from Vanuatu, Amy is sent to stay with her great uncle and aunt on a vineyard near Gisborne. When reports of Bola st ...Show more
Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story) by Lorraine Orman
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: My New Zealand Story
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healt ...Show more
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (PB) by Eve Sutton
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Cats from different countries do strange and exotic things, but this ordinary cat likes to hide in boxes. First published in 1973, this book is a classic.
Santa's Worst Christmas by Pania Tahau-Hodges; Bryony Walker
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
There are just a few days to go before Christmas, and everyone’s busy putting up decorations, preparing food and getting ready for the big day. Then comes the shock news – Santa’s cancelled Christmas. Santa had so many disasters last year that he can’t face it again, and he’s quit. The elves try everyth ...Show more
The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology by Joy Cowley & Giselle Clarkson
$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 Kiwi ABC Book (Board) by Donovan Bixley
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Here is the ABC like you've never seen it: featuring Donovan Bixley's uniquely Kiwi characters. Look out for the milkshake-making cow, the All Black lambs, the cute pink ski-bunny, the colossal squid, and many more of Donovan's vibrant, amusing illustrations. Fun for the kids--and fun for the adults
Tui Street Tales (#1) by Anne Kayes
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Series: Tui Street | Reading Level: very good
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