Toitoi #08 (Winter 2017) by Edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With 100 pages of original stories, poetry and artwork, Toitoi gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience. Toitoi can be read at home or at school and is a valuable classroom resource.
Bite Me by FleaBite
17.00 NZD
Category: Songs & Music
Bite Me is the fabulous new CD from fleaBITE. Surreal, crazy and fun fun fun. Bite Me is bursting with 11 juicy new songs to sink your fangs into. fleaBITE have won the Best Children's Music Album Award twice for Circus of Fleas and The Jungle Is Jumping and the Best Children's Music Video Aw ...Show more
Toitoi Jillion - By New Zealand's Young Writers and Artists (selections from Toitoi issues 1-12) by Toitoi
45.00 NZD
Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions
“One thing I wish people understood about me is that I have a story to tell”— Elaf Abduljawad, age 11 The Jillion is a collection of incredible work from Toitoi Issues 1-12. Written and illustrated by New Zealand’s young writers and artists ages 5-13, the Jillion is a celebration of their curiosity, co ...Show more
Waiting for Birds by Rob King
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Waiting For Birds is a collection that traverses nearly half a century and three countries. With a compassionate and humorous eye, Rob King takes himself and the reader from a childhood in Yorkshire - listening to the radiogram, making jam, or watching a neighbour fishing for hens, through the challeng ...Show more
Wild Dogs Under My Skirt by Tusiata Avia
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
This vivacious collection of poetry charts the author's experience with the sometimes painful intersection of New Zealand and Samoan cultures in her life. Alive with the energy and rhythm of performance poetry and oral traditions, these poems reshape common understanding of New Zealand culture.
I Am a Human Being by Jackson Nieuwland
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The debut collection from one of Aotearoa’s most exciting emerging poets. Take part in a new transformation with every new page as the speaker becomes by turns an egg, multiple trees, a town crier, a needle in a haystack, and a cone of blue light in this incisive and pathos-filled exploration of what it ...Show more
Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English by Edited by: Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In this pioneering anthology, two leading Māori poets and scholars collect together many Māori poetic voices in English and let flow a wellspring of poetry. From revered established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Kōrero offer a broad picture of Māori poetry in English. The ...Show more
On We Go by Catherine Bagnall; L Jane Sayle
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
The book is developed from moments of intense connection with environments, landscapes and seasons, and the authors' shared understanding that simple but inspiring moments are a source of strength, a solution to the hysteria of contemporary life. The authors say: 'To be outdoors, that is the first thing ...Show more
Āria by Jessica Hinerangi
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Where is my tongue? On display, a trophy of war. Where is my tikanga? Kept in the basement. Where is my mana? Locked in the museum. And where are my whanau? Scattered like dandelion seeds, from the grating city, to the harnessed horizon. Drawing moko kauae on Barbies. Reading Ranginui Walker in rahui. S ...Show more
Big Fat Brown Bitch by Tusiata Avia
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of atoms. She is playing an audio book of The Power of Positive Thinking at hers ...Show more
View from the South by Owen Marshall
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A stunning collection of poems from one of New Zealand's most respected writers.David Eggleton wrote of Marshall's poetry in the New Zealand Listenerthat, 'Above all, the poems are redolent of the South Island - all wild winds and dry hills, sleepy summer afternoons, the shimmer of light on lakes, snow ...Show more
Toitoi #13 (Spring 2018) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi: A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Toitoi, A Journal for Young Writers and Artists, celebrates the ideas, imaginations and creative spirit of our young writers and artists. We believe that their work has purpose and deserves a wide audience. We publish material with an original and authentic voice that other young people can connect to ...Show more