Hine and the Tohunga Portal by Ataria Sharman
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Hine and the Tohunga Portal is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwittingly step through a portal into an ancient realm inhabited by the atua Māori (Māori deities), Kea bird tribes, patupaiarehe (fairy people), moa and giant eagles. This world is in turmoil as evil sorcerer ...Show more
Bumblebee Grumblebee by David Elliot
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's
In this delightful board book built on wordplay, toddlers will recognize each activity--getting dressed, playing, painting (including themselves), having a bath--and see how the animal makes the mischievous most of it.The bumblebee breaks its toy--bumblebee grumblebee!The cockatoo is getting dressed--co ...Show more
The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia (#2) by Eirlys Hunter
$23.00 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: The Mapmakers
In this follow-up to the internationally successful The Mapmakers' Race, the Santander children are drawn into a community’s rebellion against a despot and use their mapping skills to avert an environmental scam. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous ...Show more
Atua: Maori Gods and Heroes by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Gavin Bishop's stunning, once-in-a-generation compendium introduces readers to the pantheon of Māori gods, demigods and heroes, and explores Aotearoa's most exciting legends from the Creation to the Migration. Meet the gods, demigods and heroes of the Māori people of Aotearoa in this breathtaking, large ...Show more
Coastwatcher by David Hill
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's
No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winning author David Hill. 'It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs will ...Show more
Kia Kaha: A Storybook of Maori Who Changed the World by Stacey Morrison, Jeremy Sherlock
$45.00 NZD
Category: Children's
A powerful illustrated storybook for the tamariki and rangatahi of Aotearoa New Zealand celebrating Maoritanga! KIA KAHA is a collection of true stories about amazing Maori who have achieved incredible things. Each of them blazed a trail in their own way, and this pukapuka was written to show that with ...Show more
Why Is That Spider Dancing?: The Amazing Arachnids of Aotearoa by Dr. Simon Pollard
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Most of Aotearoa's amazing arachnids - which include spiders, ticks, mites and pseudoscorpions - are as unique to New Zealand as kiwi and tuatara. Some are so weird and wonderful that they could star in sci fi movies, but despite that we know very little about them. In this companion volume to Why is Th ...Show more
How Do I Feel? A Dictionary of Emotions for Children by REBEKAH LIPP
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions might feel in the body and how each emotion might be helpful. This emotions dictionary is all about helping children find the words for how they truly feel. Learning to recognise and label our emotions correctly is such an important skill f ...Show more
The Greatest Haka Festival on Earth (Mokopuna Matatini English Edition) by Pania Tahau-Hodges; Story Hemi-Morehouse
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's
It's national kapa haka competition time again, and this Maori performing arts festival is a big event! It needs planning, tactics and dedication - and that's just for the people watching! Nan's a hardcore kapa haka follower, and she shows her mokopuna all the tricks to get the best seats, find the cho ...Show more
Violet Black (#1 Black Spiral) by Eileen Merriman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Spiral
Set in the near future, this first book in a fast-paced trilogy will hook you in from the first page. Violet Black and Ethan Wright are both in a coma after contracting the lethal M-fever. They have never met. - I couldn't speak, but I was trying so hard to communicate and then . . . then . . . I push ...Show more
The Memory Thief by Leonie Agnew
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's
A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. Seth has been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens for as long as he can remember. By day he's frozen as a statue of a shepherd boy, but as soon as the ...Show more
Moose the Pilot by Kimberly Andrews
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's
Meet Moose, a bush pilot who lives in a treehouse. He's had a VERY busy day when he gets a radio call for one more job - a RESCUE mission! Moose, the dashing bush pilot from Puffin the Architect, is to the rescue! With a full plane and bad weather, too, but three youngsters need his help, and this is t ...Show more