Avocado Asks - What Am I? by Momoko Abe
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Avocado is feeling just fine in the fruit and veg aisle at the supermarket - until a young customer asks a difficult question: "Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable?" Avocado doesn't know the answer either - and the question won't seem to go away! A brilliantly funny book about identity and being conf ...Show more
The Power of One (HB) by Trudy Ludwig
37.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
When one child reaches out in friendship to a classmate who seems lonely, she begins a chain reaction of kindness that ripples throughout her school and her community. One kind act begets another, small good deeds make way for bigger ones, and eventually the whole neighborhood comes together to build so ...Show more
The Boy and the Gorilla by Jackie Azúa Kramer, Jackie Azua Kramer
30.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
This profoundly moving tale about a grieving boy and an imaginary gorilla makes real the power of talking about loss. On the day of his mother's funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see: a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy h ...Show more
You Can Persevere: Quit or Keep Going? (Making Good Choices) by Connie Colwell Miller
25.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Making Good Choices
Observe. Question. Hypothesize. Predict. Test. Record. When the science fair turns out to be more work than expected, would you quit or persevere? In this illustrated choose-your-own-ending picture book, Dahabo must decide whether to keep working on her science fair project or quit. Readers make cho ...Show more
Boost Your Brain (Grow Your Mind) by Alice Harman
24.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Grow Your Mind
Help children, aged 7 plus, boost their brains! This book is packed with fun and varied ways for children to improve concentration, positivity, confidence and mental wellbeing in a way that works for them. Grow your Mind is a series of books that explore how we develop a 'Growth Mindset' - when childre ...Show more
Anger is Like Armour (A Big Hug Book) by Shona Innes
18.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: A Big Hug Book
Anger is a strong and powerful thing. It brings us lots of energy, and it can tell us when something is not right or when we have a problem. Anger is something that can protect and take care of us. Anger is a bit like armour. This series deals with emotive issues that children face in direct and gent ...Show more
The Battle: Starting School Can be Scary Sometimes! by Ashling Kwok
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Edward is anxious to start knight-school. He puts on his armour, and prepares for battle. It's sure to be terrifying with all those ogres and dragons about. But at school, Edward is befriended by an ogre who offers him some of her lunch. Edward soon realizes that maybe things aren't as bad as they first ...Show more
An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A to Z (The School of Life) by The School of Life
35.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration. Emotions are like animals: No two are quite the same. Some are quiet; some are fierce; And all are hard to tame. Children experience all sorts of emotions: sometimes going through several very diff ...Show more
I Have to Start at School Today by Simon Philip
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A riotously funny, but ultimately reassuring look at one child's far-fetched imaginings about starting school, from the writer of award-winning You Must Bring a Hat and Be More Bernard.I have to start at school today."You'll have such fun!" my parents say.I know they think I'll be okay,But what if thing ...Show more
Brand New Band: A story about inclusiveness by Penny Harris
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues | Series: Ginnie and Pinney Learn and Grow
Pinney is excited about putting on a concert with his friends. But when Lulu Kangaroo is excluded from joining in and the concert isn't going well, Pinney realises that Lulu might have something to offer after all.Will Lulu forgive her friends and save the concert? What will Pinney give up if she does? ...Show more
Talking is not my Thing by Rose Robbins
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Age range 3 to 9The autistic sister in this sibling pair is non verbal, but she finds plenty of ways to communicate and have fun with her brother. Although she can't talk, this little girl understands everything, and has plenty to say, and lots of ideas. Through body language, drawing pictures, making ...Show more
When The Wind Blew by Jacqui Maguire
27.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Throughout our lifetime we will all experience change and challenge. Common events that impact children include: marriage separation and family breakdowns, relocation, transitions to a new school, and the arrival of new siblings. The current navigation of Covid-19 also highlighting the impact of unimag ...Show more