Cork on the Ocean by Mark Sommerset
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Set sail on an ocean of adventure as Cork surfs the high seas. After riding a sea horse, evading a shark and befriending an exhausted butterfly, Cork meets a wise old whale who shares the secret of staying afloat. Sparingly illustrated and awash with colourful rhyme, Cork on the Ocean is an uplifting ta ...Show more
The Lighthouse Keeper's Cat by Ronda Armitage
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: The Lighthouse Keeper
Hamish, the lighthouse keeper's cat, has been neglecting his duties and the mice are running wild all over the lighthouse. With the lighthouse inspector due any day now, Mr and Mrs Grinling decide to put Hamish on a diet until he catches the mice . . . So Hamish sets off to find someone who will appreci ...Show more
Toot: The World's Tiniest Whale (PB) by Joy Ramirez
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Join Toot - the world's tiniest whale - on his biggest adventure yet! Author Joy Ramirez and Illustrator Mike Chapman had captured perfectly Toots adventure after he leaps from his fishbowl and heads out to find the sea. Like any adventure it never goes smoothly but with the help of friends Toot finds ...Show more
Air Born (Generation Icarus #1) by J. L. Pawley
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Young Adult Fiction | Series: Generation Icarus
Air Born is the first book in a new international YA series - Generation Icarus. Seventeen-year-old Tyler Owen is smart, handsome, and destined to be a fighter pilot. He's mapped out his life and knows exactly where he's headed. That is, until his first solo sky-dive, when he undergoes a terrifying tra ...Show more
The Boy and the Dolphin by Robyn Kahukiwa
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
When a boy helps free a dolphin tangled in a discarded fishing net, they develop an unexpected friendship. "Once there was a boy who lived by the sea. He loved the sea and he swam in it every day he could ... which was most days. He was a very good swimmer. One day, the boy was swimming as usual when he ...Show more
Skink Gully by Des Hunt
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Central Otago's searing summer has been long and brutal. And yet somehow the sheep and smaller creatures on Stonefields Station have survived. That's until Garth Fischer arrives, along with his gun and plans to change things in a big way ...ways that are good for Garth Fischer, but nothing else. Then th ...Show more
Me and My Quirks by Hannah Hamilton
20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
A young children’s picture book about autism, inclusion and acceptance children’s picture book about autism. When my three-year-old, non-verbal son was diagnosed autistic, I decided to put pen to paper to come up with a way of helping him be better understood by his peers and those who cross paths with ...Show more
Goddess Muscle by Karlo Mila
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This long-awaited poetry collection from award-winning Pasifika poet Karlo Mila spans work written over a decade. The poems are both personal and political. They trace the effect of defining issues such as racism, poverty, violence, climate change and power on Pasifika peoples, Aotearoa and beyond. They ...Show more
Here For a Good Time - Organised thoughts from a disorganised mind by Chris Parker
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Comedian Chris Parker brings his brilliant comic wit to the page. Star of stand-up, winner of Celebrity Treasure Island and lockdown Instagram sensation, Chris Parker shares a series of short stories, essays and musings. Chris has made a name for himself as an outspoken, witty and charming personality w ...Show more
He rite a Miti ki a Papa: Maori Edition Lionel Is Just Like Dad by Éric Veillé
15.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language
A funny and warm father/son story in te reo Maori in which an irresistible lion cub proudly tries to be just like Papa. Miti can do everything Papa does: Papa combs his hair. So does Miti. Papa scratches his arm. So does Miti. Papa sings very, very loud. So does Miti. But when Miti throws all the toys i ...Show more
Laughing at the Dark by Barbara Else
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
'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
Falling Into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Senior Fiction
It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, fourteen-year-old twins, get home from school - until they find their mother, Maia, has disappeared and a swirling vortex has opened up in her room. They are sucked into this portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Maori Underworld, a shadowy place of in ...Show more