Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$29.99 NZD
Category: Junior Non-Fiction | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
Martin Brown's Lesser Spotted Animals 2 by Martin Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Nature
Bored with the usual suspects? Got a thirst for more nifty nature knowledge and a love of the unknown underdog? Then LESSER SPOTTED ANIMALS 2 is the book for you! Discover more brilliant beasts you never knew you needed to know about from the altai argali to the yellow-throated marten and everything in ...Show more
Lesser Spotted Animals by Martin Brown
$27.99 NZD
Category: Nature | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Bison are banned and tigers are taboo. Say goodbye to the gnu, cheerio to the cheetah and poo poo to the panda. The world of Lesser Spotted Animals STARTS HERE! Discover the brilliant beasts you never knew you needed to know about - from the numbat to the zorilla and everything in between. Martin Brown' ...Show more
Adventures on Earth by Simon Tyler
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
The wonderful graphic illustrator Simon Tyler is back with a book all about the extremes of our planet - and the people who venture there. Bursting with information and illustrated in bold and colourful graphics, this book will grab the attention of all avid explorers - big and small. Follow in the foot ...Show more
Our House is Round by Yolanda Kondonassis
$18.00 NZD
Category: Nature
This book guides young readers through a smartly narrated conversation illuminating the concept of global connection and environmental cause and effect. This book teaches the 'whys' behind earth conversation in a colourful, positive way that encourages maturity, responsibility and problem solving discus ...Show more
Why is That Lake So Blue? by Simon Pollard
$29.99 NZD
Category: Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Why is our place magic? Why are its islands shaky? Why are our mountains tall and our forests green? Why are some lakes so blue? What happens beneath the waves? Who used to live here? What changed when mammals arrived? What happens in the dark? In this fun-filled, fact-rich book, award-winning science w ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Explore with Captain Cook! by Mark Bergin
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Be...
The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach encourages readers to get emotionally involved with the characters, aiding their understanding of what life would have been like exploring with Captain Cook. Informative captions, a timeline, a map, a complete glossary and an index make ...Show more
The Life-Size Guide to the New Zealand Beach by Andrew Crowe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature | Series: The Life-Size Guide to...
Join Andrew Crowe in solving the mysteries of beachcombing. The puzzling flotsam and jetsam - both common and strange - is shown here and explained with clear, life-size colour photographs. Besides providing a simple introduction to New Zealand geology, this book's new approach to the beach shows: *Pebb ...Show more
Girl Stuff 8-12: from the number one go-to advisor for Australian girl's and women's health issues by Kaz Cooke
$30.00 NZD
Category: Junior Non-Fiction
Here's everything you need to know about being a pre-teen, from Kaz Cooke, author of Girl Stufffor teens. * body changes * dealing with friends & bullies * getting confident * first periods * pimples * hair (wherever it is) * phones & being online * what to eat * being fit & healthy * the be ...Show more
ANZAC Heroes by Maria Gill
$29.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Discover the triumphs and tragedies of 24 heroic Australasians during World War One and Two. Read the biographies of ANZAC soldiers, as well as Air Force and Navy soldiers, medics, a spy, an ambulance driver and an humanitarian, surviving in battles in England, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Paci ...Show more
Armistice Day: The New Zealand Story by Philippa Werry
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month each year New Zealanders remember the end of the First World War. Armistice Day. Kiwi soldiers returned home to a terrible influenza epidemic, as the population grieved for the loss of life. Memorials were erected and families sought to ret ...Show more