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. ...
Nissa loves the NZ bush and considering she isn’t quite 13, has spent a lot of time in it. Her dad and brother love to hunt deer, both proud of ...
Batpig – Space Farce Gary Yorkshire loves great-tasting sandwiches, mud baths, video games and hanging out with his friends, Brooklyn the Bat and Carl the Fish. One day after playing ...
The Class that Wouldn’t End Maths class is no fun for Gary Pig or Carl Fishington. Only their friend Brooklyn Bat seems to relish the thought of a whole hour ...
Lily and Lucy live with their Grandad. At only six and nine and three quarters old, they are very worried when they discover their fun, loving, clever inventor Grandad, missing! ...
Larry wasn’t left behind on purpose, but somehow he’d been dropped at the zoo. The giraffe keeper picked him up and put him in his own special place just inside ...
Manu is in awe when his Poppa shows him a medal. He wants to know what it is, and why he has it? Especially when Poppa tells him a King ...
What do you get when you cross Kiwiana with a Pirate – this book, The Rhyming Pirate! This Pirate loves playing with words, making everything rhyme if he can. He’s ...
ATUA: Māori Gods and Heroes, begins with nothing. Then comes darkness, a pale smudge of light and then Ranginui e tū nei (a great sky father) unfurls. Below him Papatūānuku ...
The Sun is just waking up, its rays of light stretching across the sky. A lone Pīhoihoi balances on a thistle flower marveling at the sky’s colours. What Colour is ...