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.
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
How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? by Mac Barnett
$14.99 NZD
$29.99 (50% off)
Category: CLEARANCE SALE - Picture Books
The multi-award-winning duo of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen tackle a perennial question: how does Santa go down the chimney? When Santa arrives at a child’s house on Christmas Eve, does he go down the chimney feetfirst or headfirst? What if he gets stuck? What if there’s no chimney? Maybe he slides unde ...Show more
Always Never Always (HB) by Meg McKinlay
$27.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A poetic and quirky one-of-a kind classic-in-the-making, that encourages readers to explore their world, from two award winning creators.Always follow secret tracks –the paths that wind and wend through cracks.Never worry where they go.When you get there, then you’ll know.Meg McKinlay is a multi-award-w ...Show more
Mangō: Sharks and Rays of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud; Andrew Stewart
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The oceans surrounding Aotearoa New Zealand are home to over a hundred astonishing and strange species of sharks and rays. This fact-filled book takes you down into the fascinating underwater lives of these expert hunters, illustrates their evolution and explores their place in our culture. And it expla ...Show more
Gigantic by Rob Biddulph
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
A powerful and standout sea-life story featuring one very small and determined blue whale from bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Rob Biddulph.Meet Gigantic, the smallest blue whale in the Atlantic. Dwarfed by the other whales, Gigantic keeps to himself, making new friends and perfecti ...Show more
The Puppets of Spelhorst (HB) by Kate DiCamillo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale, enchantingly illustrated, in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning and high spirits. Once, there was a king. And a wolf. And a girl with a shepherd’s crook. And a boy with a bow and arro ...Show more
The Treasure Hunt by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe
$34.99 NZD
Category: Facts and Information
Discover real-life stories of treasures lost, stolen and found where YOU become the treasure hunter! Discover a message in a bottle that appears to be from the ghost of Captain William Kidd - the infamous pirate and now, it would seem, thief! Follow a breadcrumb trail of intriguing clues left by the tre ...Show more