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What is Humanism? How Do You Live Without a God? and Other Big Questions for Kids by Michael Rosen
$21.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
What does it mean to be a humanist? Is humanism a new idea? How do people live their lives without religious beliefs? The first of its kind aimed at the new curriculum for upper primary and lower secondary school children, this book will examine how humanists respond to fundamental questions about mora ...Show more
What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen
$16.98 NZD
Category: Poetry
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invalua ...Show more
What is Right and Wrong? Who Decides? Where Do Values Come From? And Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen, Annemarie Young
$23.99 NZD
Category: Milestones and Issues | Series: And Other Big Questions
Every day we make decisions that are underpinned by our ideas of what is right and wrong. But where do these ideas come from? Where do our values come from and who decides which values are used in a society?This book is a highly topical look at how our decisions about what is right and wrong play out on ...Show more
What's So Special About Dickens? by Michael Rosen
$16.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
This is a lively, easy to use and informative biography of Charles Dickens with humorous illustrations. Charles Dickens brought to life some of our favourite fictional characters, such as the Artful Dodger and his avaricious boss, Fagin, the miserly Scrooge and the spiteful Miss Havisham. But what inspi ...Show more
What's So Special About Dickens? by Michael Rosen
$16.98 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Dickens brought life to some of our favourite characters: his rogues' gallery includes the Artful Dodger and his avaricious boss, Fagin, the miserly Mr Scrooge, and the spiteful Miss Havisham. During Dickens's lifetime, his novels sold in their thousands, and his touring one-man show was an internationa ...Show more
What's So Special About Shakespeare? by Michael Rosen
$16.98 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
So what was it like to live in Shakespeare's time? What do we actually know about him? And how does someone become that famous? These are just a few of the questions addressed in this lively and accessible book on the life and works of William Shakespeare by award-winning author Michael Rosen. Ideal fo ...Show more
Who Are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young
$21.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: And Other Big Questions
What does it mean for people to have to leave their homes, and what happens when they seek entry to another country? This book explores the history of refugees and migration around the world and the effects on people of never-ending war and conflict. It compares the effects on society of diversity and ...Show more
Why Do We Need Art? What Do We Gain by Being Creative? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young
$34.99 NZD
Category: Art, Music, Theatre and Dance | Series: And Other Big Questions
A highly topical look at the role of art and the importance of creativity in our lives and the wider world. Art, in its widest sense, encompasses many different forms, from painting and poetry to dance, pottery and quilting and much else besides. Creativity is an essential part of what makes us human a ...Show more
Wiggly Wiggly: Playtime Rhymes (Board Book) by Michael Rosen
$16.99 NZD
Category: Nursery Rhymes
Wiggle, jiggle and giggle along with this board-book of action rhymes, collected from A Great Big Cuddle. A board-book collection of action rhymes from not one but two Children's Laureates. Join a band of mischievous monkeys, tigers, lions, elephants and bears as they tippy-tap, boing-boing, wiggle-wigg ...Show more
Wolfman by Michael Rosen
$21.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
Wolfman has escaped! He is raging and rampaging around town, chewing up paving slabs and biting trees and generally being very terrifying indeed! Whatever can Wolfman want and who will be brave enough to ask...? Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family, with easy-read font.
Wolfman (Acorns) by Michael Rosen
$16.99 NZD
Category: Dyslexia Friendly | Series: Acorns
Wolfman is on the loose in this rollicking low reading age book from renowned and bestselling author Michael Rosen. Wolfman is on the loose and he is raging and rampaging through town like a terror! Lamp-posts have been ripped up, paving slabs chewed - even the Army has gone into hiding! A hilarious and ...Show more