Toitoi #14 (Summer 2019) by Edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction
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
The Adventures of Tupaia by Courtney Sina Meredith; Mat Tait
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The incredible story of Tupaia, Tahitian priest navigator, who sailed on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook on his first voyage to Aotearoa. Follow Tupaia as he grows up in Ra'iatea, becoming a high-ranking 'arioi and master navigator. Join him as he meets up with Cook in Tahiti and sails as part of ...Show more
Toitoi #19 (Autumn 2020) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With over 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. ...Show more
Toitoi #20 (Winter 2020) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ Middle Fiction
Toitoi is a quarterly journal of writing and art by New Zealand children, ages 5-13. With over 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. ...Show more
The Jillion 2: By New Zealand's Young Writers and Artists (selections from Toitoi issues 13-24) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
45.00 NZD
Category: Treasury Collections & Special Editions | Series: The Jillion
The Jillion 2 has landed! An inspirational 300-page hardcover collection of some of the most amazing writing and art from Toitoi 13-24 – it even has ribbons so that everyone in the family can mark their favourite pages! The fantastic cover illustration is by Jasper Macknight-Wilson, age 11. As with it ...Show more
Magnolia 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Shanghai, Aotearoa, Malaysia, London-all are places poet Nina Powles calls home and not-home; from each she can be homesick for another. A gorgeous bittersweet longing and hunger runs through the poems in this new collection from one of our most exciting poetic voices. In Magnolia Powles explores her ex ...Show more
A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-taha by Witi Ihimaera (Editor); Michelle Elvy (Editor)
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: 1st
Sixty-eight writers and eight artists gather at a hui in a magnificent cave-like dwelling or meeting house. In the middle is a table, the tepu korero, from which the rangatira speak; they converse with honoured guests, and their rangatira-korero embody the tahuhu, the over-arching horizontal ridge pole ...Show more
Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
Where do I stand? Usually in the little square of sunlight by the back door. In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writi ...Show more
Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A first book of poetry from acclaimed Māori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. Shrink-wrapped, vacuum-packed, disassembled, sold for parts,butt of jokes, scapegoats, too this for that, too that for this,gravy trains, too angry, special treatment, let it go . . . ‘Always italicise foreign wor ...Show more
T is for Tuatara by Jo van Dam & Deborah Hinde
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
T is for Tuatara Amazing animals from A to Z is an alphabet book unlike any other. From the author of the popular Doggy Ditties from A to Z, inspiration for this new set of delightful silly ditties comes from weird and wonderful creatures from all over the globe. Beginning with aardvark and ending in z ...Show more
The Artist by Ruby Solly
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so bright that sound becomes sight . . . And so from the black the world is sung into being, not for us, but for itself, but for the song. In a Southern land, where the veil of time and space has worn thin, tw ...Show more