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Pierre's Not There by Ursula Dubosarsky
$18.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A girl who transforms into a dog, a magic puppet show with the power to change lives, and a story about the mysteries of the imagination from Ursula Dubosarsky, the Australian Children's Laureate. Lara had always wished she was a dog, and one day, just for a short time, she actually became one. This is ...Show more
Rory Rides by Ursula Dubosarsky
$12.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds
Rory's bike has big yellow wheels, a bell...and training wheels. Can he learn to ride without them? This exciting new series, written by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrated by Annie White, offers children their first experience of reading real novels. The stories are approximately 650 words, comparable wi ...Show more
The Becky Collection (Aussie Nibbles) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$26.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Join Becky as she builds a cubby, performs magic tricks, gives her toys a bath, makes fairy bread and puts on a puppet show. She might be hard to keep up with but she's so much fun! From the combined talents of Ursula Dubosarsky and Mitch Vane comes this funny and delightful collection of Aussie Nibbles ...Show more
The Blue Cat by Ursula Dubosarsky
$22.99 NZD
Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories
A boy stood in the playground under the big fig tree. 'He can't speak English,' the children whispered. Sydney, 1942. The war is coming to Australia - not only with the threat of bombardment, but also the arrival of refugees from Europe. Dreamy Columba's world is growing larger. She is drawn to Ellery, ...Show more
The Deep End (Puffin Nibbles) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Aussie Nibbles
Becky has reached the point in her swimming lessons when she has stopped being a Frog and has moved up to be a Platypus. She has to go into the deep end, and she's not at all sure that she's ready for it. She wishes she could be a Frog for just a little while longer.
The Dismal Daffodil (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #4) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$12.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Join the pair of guinea-pig detectives as they solve their fourth case in Buenos AiresCoco is the well-respected, if somewhat easily startled, Chief of Police in Buenos Aires. Alberta is his more sensible cousin. Together they crack the cases that confound this puzzling city. In the beautiful Japanese ...Show more
The Game of the Goose by Ursula Dubosarsky
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
One long summer holiday, Fred insists that she, Rowley and Rabbit buy a strange old board game in the Salvation Army op shop. Instead of the Noah's Ark that Rabbit has his heart set on, the children buy The Game of the Goose. Ages 9+
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
$24.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, which was perched at the very top of the school. Then in the Gardens they meet a poet. What follows is inexplicable, shocking, a scandal. What ...Show more
The Looming Lamplight (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #2) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The second in the series featuring the guinea pig detective and his sleuthing cousin Coco Carlomagno, the well-respected (if somewhat easily startled) Chief of Police, has run into an unusually difficult problem. From his office high in the Obelisco, Buenos Aires' tallest building, he can see a light ...Show more
The Missing Mongoose (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #3) by Ursula Dubosarsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The third delightfully funny detective story and puzzle book featuring the mystery solving guinea pig duoIt's a national emergency! A rare and extremely valuable mongoose is missing and the legendary Buenos Aires zoo is in chaos. But with rabbits in the Tigers' Taj Mahal and hippos in Panda's Palace, th ...Show more
The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 1 by Ursula Dubosarsky
$15.99 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour o ...Show more
The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
$24.99 NZD
Category: Teen Fiction
The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. She thought about the grey-green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. She thought about the Japs and the Germans and the shin ...Show more