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Hello? Is Anybody There? by Jostein Gaarder
14.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
In the hours before his brother is born, eight year old Joe has an unusual visitor, Mika, who falls out of a spaceship and lands upside down in an apple tree in Joe's garden. Hens, dinosaurs, an astronaut and a white rabbit all play their part in this magical story in which the encounter between Earth-b ...Show more
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
21.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Sophie finds two questions in her mailbox:
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The international bestseller about life, the universe and everything. When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter ...Show more
The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder (tr Elizabeth Rokkan; illus Rosemary Wells)
25.99 NZD
27.99 (7% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Christmas Fiction
Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. There she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her ...Show more
The Christmas Mystery - Abridged Illustrated Edition by Jostein Gaarder
49.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calendar, and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home 50 years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem.
The Frog Castle by Jostein Gaarder
11.89 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This is the story of the magical adventures of a small boy who helps a frog turn back into a prince and is rewarded with a visit to the Frog Castle. As with all Gaarder stories, there is a subtext, this time the gentle exploration of a child learning to come to terms with his grandfather\\\'s death.
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
35.00 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A modern fairytale with a philosophical twist At fifteen, Georg comes upon a letter written to him by his dying father, to be read when he is old enough. Their two voices make a fascinating dialogue as Georg gets to know the father he can barely remember and is challenged by him to answer some profou ...Show more
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
25.99 NZD
26.95 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
A modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. At fifteen, Georg comes upon a letter written to him by his dying father, to be read when he is old enough. Their two voices make a fascinating dialogue as Georg gets to know the father he can barely remember and is challenged by him to answer some profoun ...Show more
The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder
34.95 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The theme of a father finding a long-lost daughter runs through this novel which is told by Petter, a precocious child and fantasist. Petter's magical interior world contains Metre Man, a midget with a green felt cap and a bamboo cane; Metre Man runs his life and urges him to do things.
The Ringmaster's Daughter (tr James Anderson) by Jostein Gaarder
25.99 NZD
29.99 (13% off)
Category: General Fiction
Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away in a torrent some sixteen years earlier.The theme of a father finding a long-lost child runs t ...Show more