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Ngā Poaka e Toru (Three Little Pigs Maori) by Gavin Bishop
$18.99 NZD
Category: Te Reo Māori
Maori edition of the three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortune and how they deal with the big bad wolf. Re-released.
Patu : The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ History | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin Bishop. Discover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bi ...Show more
Pops by Gavin Bishop
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books
A day with grandad showing in simple, beautiful images the bond between grandfather and child: a small hand in a big one, big gumboots and little, some food, stories and a snooze to finish Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown t ...Show more
Rats! by Gavin Bishop
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Rats! is a quirky, lively fun story with stunning illustrations. Polly Piper's house is infested with rats - they are everywhere. She calls in an exterminator (closely resembling the Pied Piper) who leads them all away. When they go, Polly finds her life is empty and boring. Miserable, they plead to com ...Show more
Snake and Lizard (#1) by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop
$19.98 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Snake and Lizard
Snake and Lizard are a lovable, foolish pair, always arguing, embarking on unlikely enterprises and telling one another hotly contested tales - none of which behaviour lessens their affection for one another.
Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths by Gavin Bishop
$19.99 NZD
Category: Maori Myths & Legends
Written and illustrated by well-known children's writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop, Taming the Sun contains four stories - two well-known legends (Maui and the Sun and, Maui and the Big Fish) and two less well-known legends (Rona and the Moon and, Kahu the Taniwha). Aimed at children with reading ages ...Show more
The Gavin Bishop Treasury - 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales by Gavin Bishop
$45.00 NZD
Category: Treasuries
A very special hardback collection of 10 classic children's stories for young readers to treasure, written and illustrated by the multiple-award-winning New Zealand author Gavin Bishop. Comprising over two hundred pages of fabulous storytelling and stunning artwork, children will be spellbound by this ...Show more
The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th century. Brilliant!
The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop
$22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The House that Jack Built is a Gecko Press revival of an award-winning, modern New Zealand classic, which uses a familiar nursery rhyme to tell the story of Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 19th century.
The Three Little Pigs by Gavin Bishop
$19.50 NZD
Category: Fairytales
"Will the little pigs let that big, bad wolf in? No, not by the hair on their chinny chin chins!" There's plenty of huffing, puffing and fun in Gavin Bishop's beautifully illustrated version of a traditional favourite.
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.
There Was a Crooked Man by Gavin Bishop
$17.99 NZD
Category: Nursery Rhymes
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse. And they all lived together in a little crooked house. Gavin Bishop is equally distinguished as author and illustrator. His awards include: Book ...Show more