Summer Reading Guide 2023/2024
These titles have been chosen by us as some of our favourite for the 2023/2024 Summer. They appear on our Summer Reading Guide.
Critters of Aotearoa: 50 Bizarre But Lovable Members of Our Wildlife Community by Nicola Toki, Lily Duval
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
Meet some of our most curious critters, from the popular Radio New Zealand podcast with Nicola Toki and Jesse Mulligan. Slimy, stinky, creepy, crawly and gross . . . but also a little bit cute! Discover New Zealand's most curious creatures - from Smeagol the gravel maggot, to the walking worm and the d ...Show more
The Pool Party Poisoning (#2 Lulu and the Dance Detectives) by Sally Sutton
$15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
A story of friendship and facing your fears - and a whole lot of fun! - The Pool Party Poisoning is storytelling that fans of dancing and detecting will love. In the second book in the Lulu and the Dance Detectives series, Lulu and the Silver Star Dancers have been invited to perform at a pool party! Th ...Show more
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad. Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edi ...Show more
Have You Seen Dinosaur? (FS) by David Barrow
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Play hide and seek with a boy, his animal friends and a dinosaur that's surprisingly hard to spot in the city. The brilliantly interactive follow-up to international bestselling picture book, Have You Seen Elephant? Best friends boy, dog, and elephant are VERY good at hide-and-seek. There's a missing ...Show more
Madame Badobedah and the Old Bones by Sophie Dahl
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A timeless story celebrating friendship, imagination and adventure, with exquisite illustrations, from a bestselling author. Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests, particularly their most interesting guest a ...Show more
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
$26.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction | Series: Thieves' Gambit Ser.
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life. At only seventeen years old, Rosalyn Quest is already a master thief, especiall ...Show more
Odd Wolf Out (#1 Faelan the Wolf) by Juliette Maclver
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Faelan the Wolf
Brand new animal fantasy series! The first of three funny, full-of-heart adventures in this new fantasy series that follows a gentle but determined vegetarian wolf named Faelan (which means ‘Little Wolf’ in Gaelic), who is something of a misfit, derided by the other wolves in the pack. He would rather ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (#1 Geomancer) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction | Series: Geomancer
From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear. In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye. In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the tre ...Show more
The Sporty Looky Book by Donovan Bixley
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Can you find all the silver ferns? What about spot the differences on the rugby team's tour bus? You'll have a ball of a time diving into the crazy world of The Sporty Looky Book. The Looky Book series continues with a hilarious 24-page puzzle book that puts you right in the middle of all the sporting ...Show more
Once Upon a Wickedness by Fleur Beale
$21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
An exciting adventure novel for contemporary kids with a fairytale setting, a daring hero and message that you're never too young and powerless to stand up to tyrants! What happens when a group of school children, led by the resourceful ten-year-old Dance Violet, dare to ask those in power some hard qu ...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!'
The Maps Book (Lonely Planet Kids) by Joanne Bourne
$29.99 NZD
Category: Atlases | Series: The\Fact Book Ser.
Explore the amazing world of maps from the first sketches on cave walls to real time maps on phones. Discover their incredible history and marvel at ancient maps, war maps, weather maps and even interactive maps from computer games. Packed with awesome facts, kids will soon grasp how to read maps and sy ...Show more