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Lizard's Tale by Weng Wai Chan
$21.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself i ...Show more
Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi by Toby Morris with Ross Calman, Mark Derby & Piripi Walker
$20.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
Ground-breaking full-colour graphic novel about Te Tiriti o Waitangi | The Treaty of Waitangi. This reorua (bilingual) graphic-novel-style flip book presents important information in a visually appealing and engaging way. The text (in both English and te reo Māori) and illustrations work together to pro ...Show more
Nga Hoa Hoihoi o Kuwi (Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd - Te Reo Maori Edition) by Kat Quin & Pania Papa
$19.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults | Series: Kuwi the Kiwi
Te reo Maori translation of the bestselling title, "Kuwi's Rowdy Crowd" Kuwi the Kiwi attempts to find a moment of peace and quiet in the chaos of parenthood, but everywhere she turns the volume just gets louder. Tap-dancing tomtits, Karate-kicking kokako and other noisy native friends join in the rowdy ...Show more
Tio Tiamu (The Smelly Giant Te Reo Maori Edition) by Kurahau
$25.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
In this picture book, gentle, clever Toe Jam grows to be huge, and this causes a problem in his community because his feet smell. The bigger he gets the worse the smell. While Toe Jam helps others and wants to be part of his village, everybody teases him and avoids him, and Toe Jam becomes very lonely. ...Show more
How Māui Slowed the Sun (Tales of Aotearoa #2) by Donovan Bixley; Darryn Joseph; Keri Opai
$19.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults | Series: Tales of Aotearoa
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of HOW Maui slowed the journey of the sun through the sky each day! The traditional tale but with Donovan's unique twist and trademark humour. The pictures are bright and bring their own level of humour to the book. Darryn Joseph ensures that the story is accurate and c ...Show more
#Tumeke! by Michael Petherick
$30.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
Plans for the Newtoun community’s Waitangi Day celebrations are well under way. The Tape Orchestra’s practising like mad. Monty and Mr Steve Vibrant are designing a poster. Rishi’s trying to land Lil Yacht Shifty … and Ms Ropata’s juggling it all because everyone wants in. There’ll be curry and cake, ka ...Show more
The Gobbledegook Book: A Joy Cowley Anthology by Joy Cowley
$39.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
Joy Cowley's favourite stories, poems and nonsense rhymes collected in a hardback gift volume for the family to treasure. It selects the best of Cowley's poems and stories to read aloud, including much-loved classics such as Greedy Cat and Nicketty-Nacketty Noo Noo Noo. Fully re-illustrated with humour ...Show more
Wildlife of Aotearoa by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
A spectacular illustrated picture book exploring New Zealand's unique landscapes and its incredible wildlife by the award-winning author of Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story. Long before waka touched Aotearoa's shores, the land of the long white cloud was home to an array of creatures uniquely adapted to ...Show more
Moonlight the Unicorn's High Tea Hiccup (Miniwings #6) by Sally Sutton
$14.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults | Series: Miniwings
Sshh... NOT for parents! You can keep a SECRET, right? Clara and I have a herd of tiny, talking, oopsie-whoopsie, flying horses-and they're REAL! It's true. Those naughty Miniwings get us into so much TROUBLE, especially that RAZZLY-DAZZLY UNICORN, Moonlight!
Te Kirihimete i Whakakorea (Santa's Worst Christmas Te Reo Maori Edition) by Pania Tahau-Hodges, Bryony Walker
$20.00 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
This book is the te reo Māori edition of Santa's Worst Christmas. There are just a few days to go before Christmas, and everyone’s busy putting up decorations, preparing food and getting ready for the big day. Then comes the shock news – Santa’s cancelled Christmas. Santa had so many disasters last year ...Show more
Dozer the Fire Cat by Robyn Prokop
$18.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults
In February 2019, a tiny spark in a Pigeon Valley paddock became the largest fire in New Zealand since 1955. Up to 150 volunteer firefighters fought the blaze. Around 3,500 people were evacuated, including the whole town of Wakefield. Dozer the cat was evacuated from Wakefield too, but went missing the ...Show more
Three Kiwi Tales - More fabulous fix-it stories from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt
$24.99 NZD
Category: 2020 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults | Reading Level: near fine
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their differ ...Show more
