Dilly can’t believe it! She is going to be sailing across the ocean from New York back home to England in a luxury ocean liner named the Masquerade. Her auntie ...
A boy stops to look up at an old elephant in the park. This elephant has a slide over her back, and she looks a little unhappy. “Are you okay?” ...
Sunnybrook loves its football team, The Tigers. The players are treated like royalty, the coaches like gods, but Hadley isn’t really interested by the whole love fest. Newish to town, ...
Snake and Lizard first meet as they seek quiet, sunny spots. They are usually alone when they do this, but when one gets in the way of the other an ...
Kim is used to it by now, but it still annoys him and those around him. His little sister is two years younger at age ten, but everyone knows that ...
Johannes loves to run. He is faster than a rocket, a laser, even the speed of light. He also loves being free, the thought of one of those leash things ...
Marta and her mother are alone, missing their father and husband, and with no idea if he has survived the war. At least Marta’s mum has work as a maid ...
Jordan just wants to leave. He’s in his last year of school, and his worries and fears and way of life for the last seven years can finally be left ...
Have you ever wondered about the famous characters in the fairy tales you heard as a young child? Did you ever wonder how Little Red Riding and her grandmother were ...
Being sent away from her home and brother in England is the last thing Lizzie wants. Sure, she’s going to live with her very wealthy American grandmother in the USA, ...
Max thinks horror movies are stupid. Why would you pay to go to something that frightens you? Not that he would be scared. It’s make-believe. Just a movie. He vows ...
A grand sandcastle stands upon the beach. A crab sits upon a sand throne inside, looking out across his beach domain. Another beach animal slides in low and quiet, but ...
Sarah Matahari Lorelai Piggins is one of 15. Her mother is a great mum, but her siblings not so much. Her 13 sisters are all evilly inclined, and her brother ...
When Frankie’s Mama’s vase breaks, so it seems does her family. Dad left with his belongings and Nan came to stay, tidying the broken pieces away. Frankie knew it was ...
Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant – A grumpy lady in a New Zealand town was a terrible grump. She complained about everything, which gave the local children in her ...
Tawaki is a Fiordland Crested Penguin making his way down to the ocean. His distinctive yellow feathers across both sides of his head give him his name, as Tawaki means ...
Blue and Herschell are great mates, even if they are very different. Herschell is confident and crazy for a console game called Quillhog. Blue is quiet and organised as his ...
Maddison is excited about the coming A&P (agricultural & pastoral) Show coming to Wanaka. She knows there is much more to look at than cows and sheep, and she herself ...
It’s the last thing Maddie expects when she drops her border collie named Ruby off at Doggy Daycare on the way to school. Popping in to see the owner’s new ...
Anne Frank didn’t always live in the annex above her father’s business, hiding away with her family and others from the Nazi’s relentless pursuit of anyone Jewish. When she was ...
Callie is still angry at her dad for moving them both to Northern Ireland from London. She feels she has left everyone she knows and loved behind in the city she ...
Middle schooler Tara has one year left before high school. At least that was the plan, until her principal called her and two other students to her office. As high ...
At Dogtown, Mouse is to his mouse buddies what Chance used to be to the dogs locked in their cages, (in Book 1). Just like Chance used to sort squabbles ...
Silver is just as surprised as her mother to learn that her dad has accepted a three month artist position in Costa Rica. It seems a world away from their ...
It’s time for bed. A young child gets ready for bed, with his parents help. This begins with a look out of the window at the darkening sky, after returning ...
A multi generational tale of a family, across continents, through love stories within love stories. There are quests, mysteries, broken hearts and singing ones. There are fathers lost and fathers ...
A gift of a special seed begins a journey of both a family and a young sapling through generations. Standing by the sea in front of a holiday bach, the ...
This full colour hardback is a wild and wacky, perfectly silly and always entertaining, collection of Joy Cowley’s rhymes, poems and very short stories. Upside down toads, witchy traffic jams, ...
Friends Kai, Harry and Charley are on their way to a martial arts contest at Folksville County Fair. They’ve only just settled into their seats on the train, when a ...