Sapling Green has a secret, and she hides it in her pockets. She doesn’t feel like she fits in at school – especially around noisy, bright and boisterous kids like ...
A young girl knows that others have different shaped eyes to hers. Her friends at school have wide round eyes with long lashes, where hers are almond shaped with “…kisses ...
It’s Friday! Rashad is looking forward to the party he and his friends are going to that night, tossing jibes about which girls they like from school and hope will ...
Aduago (Addy) is wary when in new spaces. In fact, she’s wary all the time. Now, far from home inside an aeroplane flying west, she sketches the enclosed space in ...
A boy waves and says ‘Hello’ to a fish. When it ignores him the boy thinks, “How rude!” Down the road, the same thing happens with a lion, and this ...
Unlike her brothers, Tom (10) and Richard (15), 12 year old Orla Perry is looking forward to their holiday on the Cornish Coast in a borrowed cottage. Upon arrival, Richard ...
It’s 1939 and Kristina and her twin brother Leopold have just completed their basic pilot training only 3 months shy of their 19th birthday. The Polish Airforce send Kristina her ...
Starting school is a big deal. Everything is new and exciting, and for some a little scary too. It would be great to have some idea as to what is ...
Keith is feeling a little left out. Sure he keeps busy with his inventions and experiments, such as: Do toenails keep growing after they have been cut? … but big ...
Murph Cooper (aka Kid Normal) and the rest of the Super Zeroes have been busy saving the day, preventing robberies and other crimes. However even now after officially being made ...
Four boys are hanging out, watching Fred’s fish called Zed. Fred begins to tell the story of when Zed was fed bread. ‘Oh No!’ The vet said, ‘No more bread ...
Another Comic Club is in session, with Li’l Petey taking the class. He has nearly two dozen baby frogs all keen to learn how to draw comics, but two of ...
The wonderful Christmas Classic, The Twelve days of Christmas was adapted for New Zealand children 40 years ago. To celebrate, this Collector’s Edition hardback has hit the shelves with perfect ...
There are over 10,000 types of birds around the world, but this beautifully illustrated book focuses on 34 birds found in the backyards of Aotearoa. Some are usually found in ...
There are many animals of Aotearoa that travel for thousands of miles every year. Birds, turtles, eels, butterflies and more spend great stretches of time over, on and in oceans, ...
Wee Aaron Slater has grown up in a garden full of sweet fragrances, summer breezes, music, laughter and love. As soon as he was able he began to draw, at ...
Ivy – is the daughter of a power couple. Her mum has just won the Carlton Citizen of the Year and the presentation ceremony is at 6pm. Ivy is super ...
Tonight is a big deal for Eleonore, or Leo which she prefers to be called. It’s her 111th birthday and it’s the night for her Hunt for the Waxing Moon. ...
Kester Jaynes misses his old life, even if he can barely remember what it was like before the virus. He hasn’t seen his dad for six years, as he has ...
Caleb is sick and tired of the never ending farm work and day after day drudgery on their family farm. His younger twin brothers are supposed to help, but do ...
Rachel is finally away from the family farm. At only 12 she had longed for more than the daily drudgery of cooking and cleaning and helping out on the farm ...
Noah has been on the island for three years. Brought with his twin Tobias, brother Caleb and sister Rachael from their family farm in the middle-of-nowhere New Zealand, they all ...
Worm by nickname and worm by nature – wanting to be out of sight, watching, and listening – Robbie Tarnauer has been labelled shy by his mother. Apparently when he ...
Once there was a goat called Answelica. She lived in a monastery with many monks who feared her temper, horns and teeth. One of these monks named Brother Edik, finds ...
A free house for a year. A new start in a new city. No more avoiding all of those who knew how she spiralled into oblivion on her bedroom floor ...
Sasha hasn’t spoken. Not since he’s been at the hospital. No one knows why, not even Sasha, but he does know he needs certain things. He needs them so badly ...
Something is not right in the small town of Roaring Creek. Vera Martinez has lived there all her life and she has no desire to stay there any longer than ...
Carl and his dad have different ideas on the word ‘Rich’. Dad believes they are rich on experiences of life, time, the way they are looking after the world by ...
Yadriel just wants to be accepted by his family for who he is. His mum was incredibly supportive, quickly understanding him when he came out as a trans gay boy. ...