Bug Week by Airini Beautrais
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a ...Show more
The Moon and Farmer McPhee (PB) by Margaret Mahy
$19.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning
The cows and sheep think Farmer McPhee should stop frowning and start frisking. But Farmer McPhee just wants to get some sleep! Then one moonlit night, something changes...A collaboration between our best loved writer for children, Margaret Mahy, and the wonderfully quirky illustrator, David Elliot, thi ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis - Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: BWB Texts
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
Great Railway Journeys in Australia and New Zealand 2/e by David Bowden
$38.90 NZD
Category: NZ Travel
35 trips that highlight some of the most interesting, scenic and rewarding railway journeys in Australia and New Zealand. They include the renowned long-distance journeys, such as The Indian Pacific in Australia that takes travellers on a three-day trip from Perth to Sydney or the The Northern Explorer ...Show more
Let It Go: Emotions are Energy in Motion by REBEKAH LIPP
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults
Let It Go encourages children to explore what emotions feel like in their body and finda unique way to release them. Join Aroha and her friends as they navigate their waythrough four emotions: sadness, anger, shame and fear. The Latin derivative for the word emotion, ‘emotere,' literally means energy ...Show more
Colours for Kiwi Babies by Matthew Williamson, Fraser Williamson
$15.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning | Series: For Kiwi Babies
From the rich red of the pohutukawa to the cool blue of the little blue penguin, pictures from vibrant Aotearoa are the perfect introduction to colours for Kiwi babies. This simple and eye-catching book, with essential words in English and Maori, will delight our littlest learners.
The Cat from Muzzle by Sally Sutton
$21.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books, Early Learning
Dwayne is a rumble-tumble tabby cat who knows where he belongs - up on the farm at Muzzle Station. So, when he's taken to live far away in the town of Kaikoura, what's a cat to do? Shake the dust off his paws and start walking, of course! The trouble is, home is a very long way away . . . With a bouncy ...Show more
Sprigs by Brannavan Gnanalingam
$35.00 NZD
Category: Modern
It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks aft ...Show more
Te Kaihanga Mapere (The Marble Maker Te Reo Maori) by Sacha Cotter; Kawata Teepa (Translator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo
A child dreams of inventing a new marble and having the recipe appear in the Book of Marbles. In a chaotic lab, with a sheep as an assistant and using ingredients as diverse as 'teeth bling from a retired rapper', 'three pints of swooshy night air' and 'a snippet from a sheep's fringe', the child light ...Show more
Te Pohū (The Bomb Te Reo Māori Edition) by Sacha Cotter; Kawata Teepa (Translator)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo
This story is the te reo Maori edition of The Bomb. In this story about being true to oneself, a boy searches for the secret to doing the perfect bomb into the water. With training from Nan, an expert and former champion, and by listening to his own voice, he finds his unique style and pulls off a wonde ...Show more
Maui Street (Māui Street) (BWB Texts) by Morgan Godfery
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Everyone lives a messy, unusual life. There is no normal. The sooner our politics understands this, the better off we will all be.' Morgan Godfery is one of New Zealands most energising young thinkers. In just a few years he has become a leading voice in the countrýs social and political life. Starting ...Show more
Te-Ika-a-Maui/The Fish of Maui by Peter Gossage
$21.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo
Peter Gossage's famous Maori myth about discovering Aotearoa's North Island is now a bilingual Maori-English edition, featuring Merimeri Penfold's translation.Kahore nga tuakana o Maui i hiahia kia haere ia i to ratou taha ki te hi, he hae no ratou. Heoi ano, ka mau i a Maui atamai te ika whakamiharo ka ...Show more