Funny Bones
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
If you think you've heard every funny story there is then think again ... Funny Bones is a super-huge collection of rib-tickling stories, cartoons, comics, jokes and much, much more that's bound to get even the most serious kid laughing. With over 100 funny stories, hilarious poems and side-splitting dr ...Show more
Toitoi #25 (Spring 2021) by edited by Charlotte Gibbs
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Junior Fiction | Series: Toitoi
Toitoi celebrates the creative spirit of young New Zealanders. 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 and be inspired by and that reflects the cultures and experiences of life in ...Show more
Laugh Your Head Off by Andy Griffiths
13.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A Choco-pops robot + a practical joke that goes wrong + a talking rock + organic rodent pies + a face that's stuck + a plan for revenge + an out-of-control imaginary fairy + a nit epidemic + five kids and one chimp in space = one hilarious book.
Toitoi #28 (Winter 2022) 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
Astonishingly Good Stories by R.A. Spratt
24.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
A lovestruck merpig, a peppermint-stick Parthenon, a vegetarian spider and so much more! From R.A. Spratt, bestselling author of Friday Barnes and Shockingly Good Stories, comes this collection of twenty terrific tales perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Paul Jennings. Featuring Greek myt ...Show more
How to get Fired by Evana Belich
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Stories about the unifying subject of work - how to get it, avoid it or lose it. Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. He ...Show more
King Lear (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare Ser.
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. King Lear is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. Th ...Show more
Barry Crump - Collected Stories by Barry Crump
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction
Barry Crump was one of New Zealand's most popular authors ever, selling over 1 million copies of his 24 books between the publishing of A Good Keen Man in 1960 through to his death in 1996. Though the reputation he gained in the wake of his turbulent personal life sometimes overshadows his literary care ...Show more
Stories on the Four Winds: Nga hau e Wha by Brian Bargh; Robyn Bargh
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: 1st
This collection brings together twenty short stories from eighteen of New Zealand's accomplished writers. They explore the dark and dangerous milieu of our comfortable existence. There is humour, tenderness, surprise, anger, sorrow and abject desperation in these stories from the four winds.
Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
30.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story collection Scattered Showers, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high schoo ...Show more
Color outside the Lines: Stories about Love by Sangu Mandana
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
"When people ask me what this anthology is about, I'm often tempted to give them the complicated answer- it's about race, and about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter, and it's about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flowe ...Show more
James and the Giant Peach: A Play by Roald Dahl (adapted by Richard George)
21.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories/Plays
Join James as he escapes from his horrible aunts and sets off inside the peach on his wonderful adventures. This dramatization of Roald Dahl's hugely popular book can be staged in school, acted out at home or simply read together by a group of friends. With suggestions for staging, props and lighting. ...Show more