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30 Weird and Wonderful New Zealand Stories by Barbara Else
25.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: 8-10
Following in the footsteps of 30 New Zealand Stories for Children and Another 30 New Zealand Stories for Children, comes this anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories written for New Zealand children. Aim at 8-10 year olds. This is a collection of tales about space aliens, talking animals, monst ...Show more
Another 30 New Zealand Stories for Children by Barbara Else
7.99 NZD
25.99 (69% off)
Category: Children Fiction
This sequel to 30 New Zealand Stories For Children contains stories that are funny and sad, magical and touching, but always beautifully written by top New Zealand children's writers. Barabara Else has written two books for children, including Tricky Situations, a collection of her own stories for child ...Show more
Claws and Jaws: 30 NZ Animal Stories by Barbara Else
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Following on from the success of 30 Weird and Wonderful Stories for NZ Children, comes this collection of stories about animals. Writers include Jane Buxton, Margaret Mahy, Jack Lasenby and David Hill. As with 30 Weird and Wonderful Stories for NZ Children, Philip Webb is the illustrator and his lively ...Show more
Dare and Double Dare: 30 New Zealand Sporty Stories by Barbara Else
25.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Another fabulous anthology of 30 stories for children - once again chosen by Barbara Else and illustrated by Philip Webb. This time the theme is sport and the stories range from funny to serious, exciting, and back to funny. Each story in some way is about triumph, enjoyment, bravery or failure. Some of ...Show more
Eating Peacocks by Barbara Else
29.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Delia's body lay flat as a piece of paper, blank, as if everything on it had scurried off over the side. Delia Whittborne finds herself in a hospital bed but can't recall how she got there, or even who she is. As her memory slowly returns, she realises it's just not her recent past and love-life she nee ...Show more
Gingerbread Husbands by ELSE, Barbara
26.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Sophie Redlove has a crumbling Gothic mansion to restore, three children to manage, a distraught friend - as well as possums in the laundry at midnight. She loves her absent husband Russell - but there's an importunate older man who's after her, a slightly sycophanic younger one, an angel and a Viking o ...Show more
Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women by Barbara Else
45.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
GO GIRL is a collection of true stories about New Zealand women who have done extraordinary things. They strove for their goals. They weren't afraid to step up or speak out. They blazed a trail for others to follow. This book was written to show that YOU can join them! Just some of the amazing women wh ...Show more
Great Mates: 30 New Zealand Stories for Children by Barbara Else
9.99 NZD
29.99 (66% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Friends - everyone's got them, even if they don't always get along with them all the time! Friendship is a universal theme for Kiwi kids and this year's collection of 30 stories covers a range of situations: being the new kid at school, competition between friends, learning to get along with people who ...Show more
Harsu & the Werestoat by Barbara Else
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Harsu has five droplets of god blood and a treasured cloak to remember his father by. Now his father is gone, he lives with his mother, his only friend an old onager donkey. And something is not right with Harsu's mother. She has started kidnapping children, and sometimes her skin grows a soft down, lit ...Show more
Hideous & Hilarious : 30 New Zealand Historical Stories by Edited by Barbara Else Illustrated by Philip Webb
24.99 NZD
25.99 (3% off)
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Following on from the success of 'Mischief and Mayhem', 'Claws & Jaws', and 'Weird & Wonderful' comes this collection of stories based around history. Writers include old favourites such as David Hill, Pauline Cartwright, Sandy Mackay and James Norcliffe as well as some exciting newcomers. As wi ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity, a voice and laughter. A funny, elegant, moving memoir by one of New Zealand's best-known authors, a woman who finally rebelled against being a handmaiden. By the time Barbara Else was ...Show more
Like Wallpaper: New Zealand short stories for teenagers by Barbara Else (Editor)
18.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Twenty stories; 20 ways to understand  and even relive  those times of exuberance, turmoil and exploration. The settings are homes and flats, schools and roads, beaches, rivers, towns  and the issues include friendship, pressure, families, sexuality and death. Authors range from veterans Jane West ...Show more