Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep by Catherine Rayner
18.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
A dreamy, wondrous bedtime story about a wakeful lion who is desperate to get some sleep from Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Catherine Rayner.Arlo the lion is exhausted. He just can't drop off, no matter what he tries. It's either too hot, or too cold; too loud or too quiet. But then he meets Owl. She can ...Show more
The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale by Margaret Mahy
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!
Hope the Whale by Laura Chamberlain
20.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
Follow Hope the blue whale on her epic journey across the oceans, in this uplifting tale, inspired by the story of the real Hope the whale - one of the Natural History Museum's most loved exhibits. Told through the eyes of one little boy, this enchanting story reimagines Hope's life. As every year he l ...Show more
Song of the River by Joy Cowley
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
In this resonant story, Cam the mountain boy follows the river from its trickling source in the mountain snow all the way to the coast. The river leads him through forest, farms, and towns to the salty wind of the sea. Dramatic landscape illustrations evoke a North American landscape and are packed wit ...Show more
The Day the Plants Fought Back by Belinda O'Keefe; Richard Hoit
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Two boisterous boys who made lots of noise, found it dreadfully hard to be good;always charging and barging, fighting and biting, and not acting quite as they should.Patrick and Wayne drove their parents insane, but they could be good if they tried.Still, they’d roar and they’d claw, they’d scoot and th ...Show more
A Hippo Lives in Havelock by Brett Avison; Scott Tulloch
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A Hippo Lives in Havelock is a quintessential Kiwi story. Havelock could be any town in New Zealand and the sense of wonder at a hippo coming to reside in the town could be felt by any little Kiwi kid in their own patch of New Zealand. Scott Tulloch's detailed illustrations depict things us Kiwis are fa ...Show more
Marmaduke Duck on the Wide Blue Seas by Juliette MacIver
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Marmaduke Duck
"Marmaduke Duck was a duck with pluck. He was bold, he was brave, he was Dare Devil Duck!" But when Marmaduke Duck trades sweet shop life for adventure on the wide blue seas, he gets more than he bargained for! The third book in the Marmaduke Duck series is a delightful dose of rollicking rhyme and ship ...Show more
Fledgling's First Flight by Dr Janice Belgrave
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A fledgling is a baby bird who is just learning to fly. The fledgling is a native New Zealand red-billed gull, and he finds himself in all kinds of trouble when his first flight lands him in a harakeke (flax) bush. How will he escape from this leafy pen? This is based on a true event, and will warm y ...Show more