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Apple, Banana, Cherry by Joy Cowley (Illus. Elizabeth Fuller)
$17.95 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
A fun way to discover the alphabet with rhymes and letters hiding in pictures. Apple! Banana! Cherry! Come with me! Let's have fun with our ABC. Open these pages many times for alphabet letters, hidden in rhymes.Some letters are big and some are small. See if you can find them all.
At the Bach by Joy Cowley
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
An evocative and beautiful bedtime book that distils the essence of summer at the bach; creaky old bed, sandy feet, waves hush-hushing and a shell under the pillow.This simple poem by internationally renowned Joy Cowley transports the reader instantly to a childhood summer.Summer holidays by the sea hav ...Show more
Brodie by Joy Cowley
$19.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Brodie is always making people laugh. He wiggles his ears and yodels like a country singer and tells far-out jokes. He's a brilliant artist, too: he draws loads of planes and helicopters, because he wants to be a chopper pilot. Everyone at school knows that Brodie is ill, and when he's in hospital they ...Show more
Buzzy Bee's Food Shapes by Joy Cowley
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Buzzy Bee
Buzzy Bee's Food Shapes is a colourful board book for preschool and Year 1. Oscar doesn't know his shapes until Buzzy and Mary Lou come to the rescue! The perfect gift for a young child or an addition to the classroom -- be prepared to read it over and over again!
Chicken Feathers by Joy Cowley
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: very good
A feel-good story about Josh, and his cantankerous pet hen, Semolina. Semolina can talk and in return for prawn crackers and the odd beer, she tells Josh all the animal gossip. The problem is that no one believes she can talk and Josh's warning about a fox on the loose in the chicken house is laughed at ...Show more
Cricket's Storm by Joy Cowley
$16.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: From 3 To 6 To 5
All the creatures in the garden fear the coming storm but Cricket stays cheerful and not afraid to get a little wet.
Dunger by Joy Cowley
$20.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Reading Level: very good
William and Melissa have been roped into helping their weird grandparents fix up their holiday home in the country. How will they cope with no electricity, no mobile phone reception and only each other for company?
Freddy Bear and the Beach by Joy Cowley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Series: Freddy Bear
Freddy Bear is off to the beach with Dad. He runs, he plays, he chases seagulls, the waves chase him. Then, oops, Freddy Bear has a little accident! The Freddy Bear books are designed for reading aloud to children 6 months to 3 years. The main character, a little bear living with loving, supportive pare ...Show more
Freddy Bear and the Green Peas by Joy Cowley
$15.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Series: Freddy Bear
Freddy Bear wants peas for lunch, but there are none. He won't eat corn, or beans, or tomato! What are Mother and Father Bear going to do...'The Freddy Bear books are designed for reading aloud to children 6 months to 3 years. The main character, a little bear living with loving, supportive parents, app ...Show more
Friends (Snake and Lizard #2) by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop
$20.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ | Series: Snake and Lizard | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning duo of Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop, this is a new book of stories about the daily adventures of the lovable pair - Snake & Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humour, Friends: ...Show more
Froghopper by Joy Cowley
$13.00 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
Felicity, Petros and Liberty Green think they're the luckiest kids on earth - their artist mum and woodcarver dad have decided to take them sailing round the Marlbourough Sounds for a year! They'll be home-schooled on the boat.