Flying Lessons and Other Stories by Ellen Oh
37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology written by the best children's authors celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. In a partnership with We Need Diverse Books, industry giants Kwame Alexander, Soman Chainani, Matt de ...Show more
Toitoi #15 (Autumn 2019) 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
Travelling Light by Tove Jansson
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray w ...Show more
From Under the Overcoat by Sue Orr
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
A collection of vivid, accessible stories, which are modern in setting or sensitivity, entertaining and New Zealand in focus - and this collection can be read purely for the immense pleasure they offer. However, the stories can also be read for the way they explore elements from earlier stories from Mao ...Show more
The Great War - Stories Inspired by Objects from the First World War
30.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
This is a moving anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War, illustrated by Jim Kay. The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a soldier's writing case to the nose of a Zeppelin bomb ...Show more
Ten Nasty Little Toads by Steve Cole
23.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Zephyr Book Of...
A full-colour gift book of ten darkly-comic and hilarious cautionary tales by Astrosaurs author Steve Cole, illustrated by Tim Archbold. In these delightfully humorous tales of a decidedly blackish hue, ten follysome toads can never change their beastly habits despite the efforts of goodly witch Madame ...Show more
Toitoi #10 (Summer 2018) 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.
Scared to Death by Anthony Horowitz
19.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
This chilling collection of ten nightmarish and fiendishly funny short stories is a perfect read for fearless children. From a train journey straight to hell, out of control robots with a murderous streak and even a television show where death is the penalty - these terrifying tales display the dazzling ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
13.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked. Miraculously, all on board survive. Plotting, mistaken identities, bewitching love and drunkenness follow as the travellers explore the strange place of spirits and monsters on which t ...Show more
The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
21.00 NZD
Category: Adult Fiction
Thirteen of Roald Dahl's most unexpected tales. Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about a landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? From the sensitivity o ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Cases by Alex Woolf
25.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
A perfect gift for young fans of mystery and detective books.
The Wrong Grave by Kelly Link
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything in this collection of short stories deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning 'The Faery Handbag', in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her ha ...Show more