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A Near Thing for Captain Najork by Russell Hoban
$19.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Fooling around as he loves to do, Tom invents a jam-powered frog, and he and his Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet take it out for a spin. When Captain Najork sees them hopping past his window, he and his hired sportsmen jump into their pedal-powered snake and set off in hot pursuit - bent on revenge after their ...Show more
Ace Dragon Ltd by Russell Hoban
$28.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
From the inimitable duo of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind the hilarious tales of Captain Najork, comes a story about a little boy, a fire-breathing dragon, and their sky-high adventure! "I can make fire come out of my nose and mouth," the dragon under the pavement tells John. "I can fl ...Show more
Come Dance With Me by Russell Hoban
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias New ...Show more
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban
$19.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Series: Captain Najork
This is a classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham ...Show more
Rosie's Magic Horse by Russell Hoban
$18.00 NZD
Category: 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
Soonchild by Russell Hoban
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: 12+
Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Sixteen-Face John, a shaman, learns that his first child, a soonchild, cannot hear the World Songs from her mother's womb. The World Songs are what inspire all newborns to come out into the world, and John must find them for her. But how? The answer takes him through man ...Show more
The Marzipan Pig by Quentin Blake; Russell Hoban
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind Captain Najork and The Twenty Elephant Restaurant, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan. Fallen behind the sofa, nobody hears the lost marzipan pig's cries for help. And, after many months, a mouse discove ...Show more
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily TelegraphIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamw ...Show more
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