Ring Ting Tūī by Elena de Roo; Paul Beavis (Illustrator)
$20.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The familiar antics of one of New Zealand's favourite native birds have been captured by award-winning picture book creators Elena de Roo and Paul Beavis. SQUAWK! Things are getting loud! The kowhai branch is bending ... what a sticky tūī crowd! Have the tūī slurped too much kowhai nectar to make an es ...Show more
Take Me to Your Leader by Leonie Agnew
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
Can Lucas pull off staging an alien encounter and save his tiny country school from closure? A madcap novel by an award-winning author for readers 8 years and older. Eleven-year-old Lucas has got a new worry to add to his long, long list - his rural school is on the Ministry of Education's list for ...Show more
Wot Knot You Got? Mophead's Guide to Life by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$29.99 NZD
Category: Emotions and Feelings
With her trademark visual wit, our buddy Mophead unravels the knots that keep us up at night. ‘What do you do if nothing is right – not at home, at school, anywhere?’‘What if people don’t like me?’‘What if your own ideas stink?’‘How do I hug my dad?’ One morning, Selina wakes up with a twisting, tang ...Show more
Heartstopper Volume 5: INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - the graphic novel series now on Netflix! by Alice Oseman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Books (Teen) | Series: Heartstopper Ser.
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the much-loved Heartstopper series. Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, an ...Show more
Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai by Michaela Keeble & Tokerau Brown
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
A bold and multi-layered picture book about self-determination narrated by a young boy full of ideas and questions about growing up, belonging, spirituality, culture, whanau, tupuna, atua, and who is the boss.“My name is Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapokai.You can call me Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapokai.” Pa ...Show more
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in ai ...Show more
Dazzlehands [Ringakoreko Ringakōreko English edition] by Sacha Cotter; Josh Morgan
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The cow says 'moo' the chicken says 'cluck' and the pig says ... 'Dazzlehands!' As hard as the farmer tries, pig won't go 'oink'. Instead, pig gets all the animals moving to: 'Train hands, rain hands, fly-it-like-a-plane hands. Bursting with the razzle, gotta liberate these DAZZLEHANDS!'
Trapped (#2 The Deadlands) by Skye Melki-Wegner
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction
Dinosaurs fight for freedom and survival in book two of this action-packed middle-grade series. Battle rages on between the two surviving dinosaur kingdoms. Eleri and his fellow outcasts are searching for evidence to prove that the carnivores have manipulated the herbivore kingdoms into war, so they can ...Show more
At the Bach by Joy Cowley
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
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
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
The Race Is On (#10 Wolf Girl) by Anh Do
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: Wolf Girl Ser.
Wolf Girl and her pack are back in the tenth instalment of this smash-hit series. Can they win the race? Or will someone else catch up with them first...
Tuatara, A Living Treasure by Katie Furze & Ned Barraud
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Meet Tuatara, ancient wonder, wildlife treasure ... and survivor! Blinking, she pulls her scaly body into the light. She's as long as a finger, and with the row of spines on her back she looks like a baby dragon. Tuatara are survivors of an ancient era and sometimes referred to as living wonders - thei ...Show more