The Tunnel in Our Backyard (Sharing Our Stories) by Malcolm Paterson
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Sharing Our Stories
This book brings to life for children the history of Auckland around the big Waterview tunnel project in a blend of English and Māori. What the children learn on a car trip from Te Atatū about Matariki and the new tunnel leads on to a big discovery once they reach Ōwairaka (Mount Albert) -- that old tun ...Show more
The Tunnel of Dreams by Bernard Beckett
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
In an abandoned house at the end of their street, twin brothers Stefan and Arlo discover a young girl hiding in its dusty shadows. Alice needs their help - her twin sister is locked in a cage suspended high above a mysterious mine in a strange parallel world-and she asks an impossible favour. Will they ...Show more
The Uga Hunt: A Story from the Island of Niue (Children of the Pacific) by Jill MacGregor
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Children of the Pacific
Arfa, who lives in Niue, describes how he and his father hunt for huge coconut crabs called uga.
The Ugly Hatchling (Kiwi Corkers) by Yvonne Morrison; Dave Gunson
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Kiwi Corkers
He had short fat legs, a long thin beak, hairy brown feathers, and tiny little stubs where his wings should be. The pukeko parents looked at each other and shook their heads. What an odd-looking chick! New Zealands favourite icon is the star of this playful retelling of The Ugly Duckling.
The Ugly Kiwi by Scott Tulloch
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Whoever heard of a bird that can't fly? And what about one that grunts like a pig? Kiwi must surely be the dullest, dumpiest bird there is. "Real" birds with colourful feathers and beautiful songs look down on poor little Kiwi from their lofty tree-top perches. But when danger comes silently slinking, t ...Show more
The Unfair Fair Case - Mack Rhino, Private Eye 3 by Paul DuBois Jacobs; Jennifer Swender; Karl West (Illustrator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Quix Ser.
Mack Rhino--a private detective, who just happens to be a rhinoceros--investigates foul play at the fair in this third mystery of this silly, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that's perfect for emerging readers Mack Rhino is a private eye whose latest case finds him at the Coral Cove Fa ...Show more
The Very Annoying Ghost by Kyle Mewburn
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
Ricky's family buy a mansion in a trendy suburb. Too good to be true? Yep. A resident ghost wants them out. A red sock washed with his cricket whites, cockroaches in the moving boxes. Ricky must solve this Very Annoying mystery.
The Wahine Disaster (My New Zealand Story) by Shirley Corlett
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
When Debbie's grandmother gives her a copy of her forefathers old sea journal, she finds it fascinating. While Debbie's own diary tells of 1960's school life and troubles with her friends, excerpts from the diary of 1841 tell of the hardships of life on an emigrant sailing ship. At home, sick with gland ...Show more
The Waka by Jean Prior; Gavin Bishop
$19.98 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Based on the traditional counting rhyme of the animals boarding Noah's ark, this version offers a New Zealand perspective, with some of the native animals of Aotearoa being called aboard the waka, a large Maori canoe.
The Weather Machine by Donovan Bixley
$14.99 NZD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: NZ Picture Books
Once upon a time, in a world not so different to ours, a small blue man built a weather machine... And then it all went terribly wrong. Donovan Bixley's distinctive illustration style shines in this absorbing, entertaining wordless book. Younger children will love the colourful, fun illustrations of the ...Show more
The Wetter the Better by Emma Vere Jones
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
'Frowning black clouds, lightening fork flashes. Fast-falling raindrops, thunderbolt crashes. Wetter and wetter and wetter it got. It just kept on raining. It just wouldn't stop.' Lily and Theo don't want to walk to school on the stormiest day of the year, but they are in for a surprise. And so is Mum. ...Show more
The Wetter the Better by Emma Vere-Jones
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
'Frowning black clouds, lightening fork flashes. Fast-falling raindrops, thunderbolt crashes. Wetter and wetter and wetter it got. It just kept on raining. It just wouldn't stop.' Lily and Theo don't want to walk to school on the stormiest day of the year, but they are in for a surprise. And so is Mum. ...Show more