Browse by category
A Way to the Stars (HB) by David Almond
$29.99 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
Hans Christian Andersen Award winner David Almond conjures the imaginative bond between a father and son as they pool their resources to defeat gravity and realize a dream. Joe is starstruck, determined to find his way up, up, up to the magical lights in the night sky. "In your dreams!" his pals say ...Show more
Annie Lumsden, The Girl from the Sea (HB) by David Almond
$21.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist. My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She mean ...Show more
Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea by David Almond
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction
A magical story about finding your identity from one of the most acclaimed storytellers of his generation, richly illustrated in full colour by an internationally renowned artist. My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong. She mean ...Show more
Bone Music by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
This wonderful tale transports the reader from the city to the forests and fells of Northern England. Under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr reconnects with the ancient past and discovers what it really means to be young in the world today.Sylvia, brave hearted and rebellious, moves ...Show more
Bone Music by David Almond
$29.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
This wonderful tale transports the reader from the city to the forests and fells of Northern England. Under a boundless starry sky, the unforgettable Sylvia Carr reconnects with the ancient past and discovers what it really means to be young in the world today.Sylvia, brave hearted and rebellious, moves ...Show more
Brand New Boy by David Almond
$27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A charming, warm and witty tale from a master storyteller, winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award and author of the Carnegie Medal-winning Skellig. George is not like any other kids in the class, or in fact like anyone Dan or his mates have ever met before. But George turns out to be cl ...Show more
Brand New Boy by David Almond
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy, Magic and Science Fiction
An inventive tale by a beloved Hans Christian Andersen Award winner celebrates our differences--and the joys of inclusion--through the lens of artificial intelligence. From the boundless imagination of David Almond comes a thought-provoking question, packaged in a lively illustrated chapter book: what ...Show more
Counting Stars by David Almond
$21.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
InCounting Stars"David Almond tackles the themes common to his work - joy, darkness, love, death and identity - with exquisite sensitivity and tenderness. David's childhood in the north of England was the inspiration for much of his work, and in these beautiful stories he creates a tangible picture of g ...Show more
Counting Stars by David Almond
$34.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
These beautifully-written stories grow out of David Almond's childhood in the streets and fields of Tyneside. They're funny and sad, realistic and strange, and are suffused with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. They show that the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary possibilities, that the ...Show more
Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories (HB) by David Almond
$22.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touch ...Show more
Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories (PB) by David Almond
$18.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touch ...Show more
Island by David Almond
$19.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A hopeful and moving coming-of-age story set on the island of Lindisfarne, by David Almond, author of the bestselling Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey: now with fantastic illustrations by the award-winning David Litchfield. Louise has travelled with her father to the island of Lindisfarne every year eve ...Show more