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Kuwi the Kiwi Treasury Book Review Cover

Kuwi the Kiwi Treasury

From the cutout tree trunk on the cover to the adorable end papers, Kuwi the Kiwi Treasury will become an .....

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Mum's Busy Work Book Review Cover

Mum’s Busy Work

A young child wakes, wondering what day it is. Learning it’s Monday and a daycare day, she stomps her feet. .....

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How Many Times Book Review Cover

How Many Times? Me Hia Rawa Ngā Wā

A busy mum asks her children to help her and Koro in the kitchen, but they are engrossed on screens. .....

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Because you are You Book Review Cover

Because You Are You

A young mouse wakes full of day dreams of what he might be. Will he be an artist? If so, .....

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Anahera Book Review Cover

Anahera – The Mighty Kiwi Mama

Anahera is a kiwi who was born in 1979. Her and her brother were found by forestry workers when they .....

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A Kids Book About Divorce Book Review Cover

A Kids Book About Divorce

Divorce. It’s a difficult topic. Hard to talk about or even just to begin to talk about. It means changes, .....

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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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Some Families Change Book Review Cover

Some Families Change

Families are made up in many different ways. There are mums, dads and children. There are children with just a .....

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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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Lucy and the Dark Book Review Cover

Lucy and the Dark

Lucy likes to go to sleep with the soft glow of a nightlight. Her mum begins to suggest she might .....

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Shoe Trouble Book Review Cover

Shoe Trouble

Eleanor is on the school bus home when she realises she has left her shoes behind. At least she thinks she .....

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Toku Whanau Rerehua My Beautiful Family Book Review Cover

Tōku Whānau Rerehua/My Beautiful Family

Huia is worried. They are doing something special in her classroom the next day and Huia isn’t sure she wants .....

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Duck Goes Meow Book Review Cover

Duck Goes Meow

A game that all parents love to play with their young ones is what sounds animals make. We all know .....

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Mama's Chickens Book Review Cover

Mama’s Chickens

Mama is not happy about the idea of adopting some chickens. They poo everywhere, and she doesn’t even like eggs. .....

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Out in the Moana Book Review Cover

Out in the Moana

Out in the Moana is loosely based around the American Classic Over in the Meadow. This stunning Kiwi version is .....

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Ihaka and the Unexpected Visitor Book Review Cover

Īhaka and the Unexpected Visitor

When Īhaka answers the loud knocking on the front door, the last person he expects is the Māori god of .....

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There's a King in the Cupboard Book Review Cover

There’s a King in the Cupboard

A young girl called Sarah has just moved into a new house with her mum and dad. It’s a very .....

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Messy-o-saurus Book Review Cover

Messy-o-saurus

There is something going on in a little girl’s house. Her mum is finding lots of mess. There is paint .....

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Get Ready Mama Book Review Cover

Get Ready, Mama

A little girl wakes her Mama for school. She has to coax Mama out of bed, into her clothes and .....

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This is My Dad Book Review Cover

This is My Dad

When Leo’s teacher announces a new topic at school, his tummy flips. Tell us about your Dad! Leo doesn’t know .....

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The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bartholomew Crisp Book Review Cover

The Incredibly Busy Mind of Bowen Bartholomew Crisp

Bowen Bartholomew Crisp is a thinker. He’s not a fast thinker however, needing time to consider a question and all .....

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Let's Go, Little Roo Book Review Cover

Let’s Go, Little Roo

Little Roo doesn’t want to go out with his Mum today. He’d rather stay home with his toy friends than .....

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Who's your real mum book review cover

Who’s Your Real Mum?

Nicholas has come to play at Elvi’s home. She has two mum’s and Nicholas asks which of her mums is .....

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