Rat is happy in his hidey-hole with his treasures. Who could want more than a red velvet slipper to snuggle down into at night, a yellow marble that catches the setting ...
Marv loves football. He and his mate Jimmy are constantly shooting goals on the pitch, off the pitch and on their gaming screens too. Life is simple. Life is good. ...
Roll up! Roll up! See the Fortuna circus family with your own eyes. Ringmaster extraordinaire and ruler of his domain, Arturo Fortuna ensures a feast for the tongue, the eyes ...
Dan is 13 and it’s the summer before his first year in high school. Middle School hasn’t been kind to him, making him shy and keen to be even more ...
Abel can’t believe he’s finally in the City of Angels. He has landed a part in the relaunch of a hugely popular show on the Omni Channel – called Sunset ...
A small wooden, candlelit shed is the only place Astrid has ever known. Locked inside by her mother, she is home-schooled, fed well and supplied with books, a laptop and ...
Grace is shocked by the prank pulled on her in a Wellington railway station. Asked to look after a suitcase for a minute by a stranger, something begins to move ...
Gaston wakes up one morning in his barn home and decides to go on a journey. His friends aren’t sure about his sudden decision and are worried for him. But ...
Te Rerehua and her brother Sam love staying with their Grandma and Pōua in their little house next to a big lake named Te Roto o Wairewa. Some people call ...
Max and his family are off to the snow for a skiing holiday. He has brought his friend Hugo along for the fun, and Abby Purcell (his past nemesis) and ...
Rosa, Tilly, Oskar, Milo and Alessia stand in the portal to the great magician, Merlin’s world. But somehow it doesn’t feel right. There are tourists everywhere, not knights and fair ...
A handful of small boats sit abandoned in the floodwaters…. Not far away are small pockets of land above the water that were once a zoo. Buildings long since left ...
Petra – An organiser. Called bossy by her stepbrother Nolan and by pretty much anyone else who ever meets her. She likes to be on top of things, so when ...
Have you heard of Pahu (Hector’s dolphin) or Popoto (Māui dolphin)? These are the rarest dolphins in New Zealand, and the Māui dolphin is the rarest in the world! There ...
When Olive is called to the school office while in class, her heart begins to race. Has something terrible happened? Her mother is waiting for her, and tells Olive she ...
Rebecca is shy. Really shy. She’s not sure why, and she wishes she was more like the kids at school. They can make friends easily, play together in the school ...
Hannah and Sophie are close after growing up together. They are not only best friends, they are cousins. But they live different lives. Sophie lives in a grand house and goes ...
Poto is worried. She and her younger sister have been out flying and after returning to their whānau nest, discover it empty. Poto is supposed to be looking after her ...
Basti is happy in her life as the Apprentice Witnesser in her small town. Her guardian and main miracle witnesser is a tall, beautiful black woman named Lodyma Darsey. She ...
It began with a bear trap. In terrible pain, teenager Andrew can hardly take another step when he discovers a cabin in the middle of the woods. Is there anyone ...
Terence and Frank are Turtles. Terence and Frank are rivals and everything is a competition – even falling off a cliff…. They’ve always been rivals. Shiniest shell? Fastest or slowest ...
During 2021, Nicolla Hemi-Morehouse entertained many with her YouTube Channel – Miss Nicky Says, and now has over 2 million views. Her passion of sharing te reo Māori with children, ...
Finn O’Rourke is much happier on a screen with a packet of chips at his side than being in the outdoors. So a school hiking trip in the French Alps ...
Mitchell’s mum says he was itching the moment he was born. Covered in eczema, tiny Mitchell scratched and scratched, even with covers on his hands and feet. But he never ...
Mama Cat is about to begin her kitten’s lessons on how to be a cat. When she invites Duck to join them he replies as expected… Meow! The first lesson ...
Brothers Paddy and Flynn live with their mum and dad in a cottage between an ancient forest and the sea. They have a much loved chocolate coloured dog called Coco. ...
Brothers Paddy and Flynn are great mates, but living far from other children can sometimes get boring. Putting their heads together they come upon an idea – something they shouldn’t ...