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The Ever Standing Tree Book Review Cover

The Ever-Standing Tree – Te Rākau Tū Tonu

Pani and Waima aren’t happy with Dad’s new idea. He has taken an axe to the tree behind their house, .....

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But then... Book Review Cover

But Then…

A boy and his grandfather arrive at the library desk with a book. The librarian is not happy.   “This .....

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Little Axel's Axolotl Book Review Cover

Little Axel’s Axolotl

Axel has an Axolotl. Never heard of an Axolotl? These are creatures that look half fish, half frog, with some .....

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Miro The Little Brown Kiwi Book Review Cover

Miro The Little Brown Kiwi

Deep inside a forest of towering trees and ferns, something is sleeping. Small ferns and leaf litter are scattered around .....

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Ruru Night Hunter Book Review Cover

Ruru Night Hunter

The sun has nearly set and people, animals and birds begin to settle down to sleep. Not all birds sleep .....

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The Lucky Little Pig Book Review Cover

The Lucky Little Pig

Pig is very happy living on her farm with mud puddles to roll in and apples to crunch on. One .....

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Ten Nosey Weka Book Review Cover

Ten Nosey Weka

A weka and his whānau are running through a field. There are ten in all before one decides to check .....

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Nanny Mihi's Harvest Book Review Cover

Nanny Mihi’s Harvest / Te Hauhake a Nanny Mihi

Nanny Mihi’s mokopuna (grandchildren) stay with her every school holidays. She lives near the sea and has a large vegetable .....

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Spotty the Zebra Book Review Cover

Spotty the Zebra

Spotty is a zebra. Everyone knows zebras have stripes not spots! Spotty really doesn’t like her spots, especially when other .....

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The Proud Puteketeke Book Review Cover

The Proud Pūteketeke

Mama Duck is busy counting her eggs when she realises she has an extra. It doesn’t look like her eggs .....

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Watson the Detective Dog Book Review Cover

Watson the Detective Dog

Watson loves to find things. His owner Jon throws ball after ball for his young dog to fetch, and time .....

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Nanny Rina's Amazing Nets Book Review Nets

Nanny Rina’s Amazing Nets

Haeta te Kapua is watching her Nanny Rina make a net. She has a special room where she likes to .....

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The Dizzy Waggle who lit up the dark Book Review Cover

The Dizzy Waggle who lit the dark

Have you ever seen a Dizzy Waggle? These are tiny fluffy creatures with big eyes, ears and a tail covered .....

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The Kai Stars of Matariki - Tupuānuku and Tupuārangi Book Review Cover

The Kai Stars of Matariki – Tupuānuku and Tupuārangi

Te Rerehua and her brother Sam love staying with their Grandma and Pōua in their little house next to a .....

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New Zealand's Endangered Dolphins Book Review Cover

New Zealand’s Endangered Dolphins

Have you heard of Pahu (Hector’s dolphin) or Popoto (Māui dolphin)? These are the rarest dolphins in New Zealand, and .....

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Because I'm Maori Book Review Cover

Because I’m Māori – He Māori Ahau

During 2021, Nicolla Hemi-Morehouse entertained many with her YouTube Channel – Miss Nicky Says, and now has over 2 million .....

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How to be a Cat Book Review Cover

How to be a Cat

Mama Cat is about to begin her kitten’s lessons on how to be a cat. When she invites Duck to .....

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The Dragon Hunters (1) Book Review Cover

The Dragon Hunters (1)

Brothers Paddy and Flynn live with their mum and dad in a cottage between an ancient forest and the sea. .....

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The Dragon Tamers Book Review Cover

The Dragon Tamers (2)

Brothers Paddy and Flynn are great mates, but living far from other children can sometimes get boring. Putting their heads .....

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Dragon Riders Book Review Cover

The Dragon Riders (3)

Paddy and Flynn’s secret has grown quite large and with it, his appetite. Named Elton John by the brothers, this .....

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Ring Ting Tui Book Review Cover

Ring Ting Tūī

One tūī is singing his heart out from a thin branch of a kowhai tree. He is happy with the .....

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The Dream Factory Book Review Cover

The Dream Factory

Far away in a small town, the people went to sleep, sure in the knowledge that something wonderful would visit .....

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Pipi Dance Book Review Cover

Pipi Dance

A mum and young son walk down through sand dunes and beach grass to the beach. Mumma holds a bucket .....

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Hatch and Match Book Review Cover

Hatch and Match

Nine chickens in a tree, soundly sleeping as the sun begins to rise. The rooster lets them all know it’s .....

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Whakarongo ki ō Tūpuna - Listen to your Ancestors Book Review Cover

Whakarongo ki ō Tūpuna – Listen to your Ancestors

A teacher stands with her students under a vast skyscape, clouds skudding across it. She urges them to look up .....

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My Dad's Runaway Bum Book Review Cover

My Dad’s Runaway Bum!

After a dinner of cabbage and peas, there is a rumble. There is a roar. But this is something that’s .....

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Ruby Loud Mouse and the Ruru Book Review Cover

Ruby Loud Mouse and the Ruru

Ruby the mouse was born small, even for a mouse. But she soon made up for it with her LOUD .....

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The Easter Bunny Hunt Book Review Cover

The Easter Bunny Hunt

Easter has arrived in Dog and Cat’s house. But where are the lovely, chocolate, Easter eggs? Dog is really worried .....

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Queen of the Cosmos Book Review Cover

The Queen of the Cosmos – Beatrice Hill Tinsley

New Zealand is famous for our scientists. There was Ernest Rutherford and William Pickering. There was also a stellar woman .....

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Rere Atu Taku Poi! Let My Poi Fly! Book Review Cover

Rere Atu Taku Poi – Let My Poi Fly

Rangi enjoys practising haka with the other boys in his class at school. They are preparing for their end of .....

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