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123 in English and Maori (Hairy Maclary and Friends) by Lynley Dodd
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books | Series: 1st
A boisterous bilingual board book that introduces littlies to counting with the help of Hairy Maclary and his friends! A gorgeous board book with pictures of Hairy Maclary, Scarface Claw and other favourite characters created by Lynley Dodd to help children learn to count from 1-10 in Maori and English ...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
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Colours in English and Maori (Hairy Maclary and Friends) by Lynley Dodd
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ Board & Cloth Books | Series: 1st
A boisterous bilingual board book that introduces littlies to colours with the help of Hairy Maclary and his friends! A gorgeous board book with pictures of Hairy Maclary, Scarface Claw and other favourite characters created by Lynley Dodd to teach children their colours in Maori and English. This speci ...Show more
Familiars and Foes by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Adult Fiction | Series: 1st
An old crush. A long-lost family member. A magical Labrador and a whole load of ghosts… At least Adeline can’t say life is boring! Adeline yearns for family, but for years, the closest she’s gotten is her assistance dog, Coco. When a frightening encounter with a ghost brings an old friend back into her ...Show more
Introducing He Whakaputanga (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley and Jared Davidson
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It wa ...Show more
Introducing Te Tiriti o Waitangi (BWB Texts) by Claudia Orange and Jared Davidson
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. In 1840, over 500 Maori leaders put their names to a significant new document: Te Tiriti o Waitangi or the Treaty of Waitangi. Through their signatures, ...Show more
Matariki: Te Whetu o te Tau by Rangi Matamua
35.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: 1st
Te Reo Māori edition. In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantations on hilltops at dawn, balls, exhibitions, dinners and a vast number of events. The Matariki tradition has been re-established, and its regeneration coincides with a growing interes ...Show more
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...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.
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohorā (The Whale Rider in te reo Maori) by Witi Ihimaera; Timoti Karetu i whakamaori
26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori Language | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more