Hickory Dickory Dock by Kelly Caswell
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
In this entertaining retelling of the traditional nursery song, the mouse is only one of many animals to climb the clock. Who slides up at three o'clock, and who will bounce up at ten? Look through the holes in each page to see which animal is next, and make up some of your own. You're sure to enjoy thi ...Show more
Eric Carle's Dragons, Dragons & other creatures that never were by Eric Carle
36.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Fiery dragons, playful centaurs, the mysterious garusa, the web-footed bunyip--these and other mythological creatures abound in Eric Carle's Dragons Dragons. In this companion volume to Eric Carle's Animals Animals, he celebrates mythology and legends from around the world, and breathes life into the cr ...Show more
Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
'For a long while Beowulf leaned on the blood-stained sword; his heart was pounding. A man with the strength of thirty! Slayer of Grendel and slayer of the sea-wolf! A hero without equal in this middle-world!' The story of Beowulf was written down as an epic poem in Anglo-Saxon England. It recounts the ...Show more
Incy Wincy Spider by Karen Erasmus
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
We all know that the rain washed the Incy Wincy spider down the water spout. But where else did he try to shelter before the sun came out? In this fun and lively story, Incy tries to find a place to rest but keeps getting into strife! When he crawls under the house, he comes face to face with a hungry c ...Show more
Proud by Various, Various Authors
23.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
A stirring, bold and moving anthology of stories and poetry by top LGBTQ+ YA authors and new talent, giving their unique responses to the broad theme of pride. Each story has an illustration by an artist identifying as part of the LGBTQ+ community. A boy’s coming out is overshadowed by gay penguins, a m ...Show more
Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum by Julia Donaldson
15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
CRAZY MAYONNAISY MUM is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action rhymes, noisy rhymes and more thoughtful pieces too. A real joy. Noisy Garden If tigerlilies and dandelions growled, And cowslips mooed, and dogroses howled, And snapdragons roared and catmi ...Show more
Out of Wonder: Celebrating Poets and Poetry by Marjory Wentworth; Kwame Alexander
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
"A culturally rich collection of poetic tributes that extends the legacies of poets from around the globe. . . . A magnificent exploration of the poetic imagination." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along ...Show more
Funky Chickens by Benjamin Zephaniah
19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
A wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for children and young people touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.
SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This by Nikita Gill
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
It's time to reclaim poetry. Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, SLAM! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene. Empowering, inspiring and often hilarious, SLAMs are a platform for well-known ...Show more
The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit and Other Stories by Sylvia Plath
15.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
This is a timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfe ...Show more
The Book of Tapping and Clapping by John M. Feierabend
24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
For generations, the songs and rhymes of American folk culture have delighted little ones and connected adult and child. These treasures were once passed on from parent or grandparent to child, but are now in danger of being lost and forgotten with changes in technology and family structure. This series ...Show more
The Book of Complete Nonsense (Vintage Classics)
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Come bathe in stew, and dine on meals of eels or worms or jellied gnats, See shoes and ships and sealing wax and fuzzy bears and owls and cats, Depart for the Land where the Bong Tree grows or the Land of Bumbley Boo Find sky in your pie and teatrays in the sky and a place where mice say moo. But be war ...Show more