Did you know you have something in common with Southern Right Whales? They have two plates of bristles that hang from their top jaw. This is what they sieve gallons ...
Maui is sick of listening to his older brothers boasting about their fishing exploits. They say they will catch the biggest, the fastest, the meanest or the longest, but Maui ...
From a baby in nappies, Ignatious Peck loved to build. With dirt, food, and even his dirty nappies, he built towers, structures and famous monuments, and his proud parents encouraged ...
When Sophia and Clara are given 6 small plastic unicorns by their Nana, they think they are sweet little toys, but little do they know, they are naughty, cheeky, and ...
Selina Kyle is trying to keep her and her ill sister fed and safe from nosy neighbours (who might report them to social workers,) and the degradation of the rough ...
Little Ghost is looking forward to scaring someone, but when she tries, nothing comes out. Where is her BOO? She searches the forest, the farm and the paddocks where she ...
Becca is missing. Some say she ran away with her troublesome boyfriend. Some say she is lost in the Briar Glen Woods. After all, wasn’t there another strange disappearance many ...
Written for his new born son, Oliver Jeffers’ Here We Are explores our planet from the stars and space that surround it, to the oceans, animals, people – inside and ...
The roles are reversed as a little girl is dropped off at her beloved Grandmas’ house by her mum and dad. She then shows the reader all the things that ...
Jenny lives in a nice house with lovely parents and her big brother. She has a good friend at school and a lovely pet dog at home. But as she ...
Walking in your victims shoes, hopping heads heroism, virtual reality football, mind jumping mums, and a creature called Blush. Just some of the stories in this second collection of mind-jumping ...
Jellyfish floats about, drifting and dreaming and happily humming her way through the ocean. A huge swordfish suddenly slashes through the water, threatening Jellyfish with his sharp sword. Frightened, Jellyfish ...
Six teens are pulled together by their leader Kaz Brekker to perform the most dangerous, outrageous, death-defying theft. Are they stealing money? Gold or Jewels? No. It’s something much more ...
A young girl is lonely and a little sad too. Her dad is busy with his work and her mum is on the phone. Neither have time for her and ...
Journey continues in this wordless picture book – the young girl and her friend soon find another coloured crayon. It belongs to a captured king, who also leaves them a ...
Nothing has changed at home, even after all her time in the magical land a young girl found through a door in her room. Her dad is still busy, hardly ...
Grandude has four grandchildren staying over one rainy day, and they’re all bored. He shows them a few postcards of faraway places and times, and produces a compass. Before they ...
Tressa and Sonnie have been friends for years, but have never met. With Tressa in Ireland and Sonnie in Wellington, New Zealand, the’yre on opposite sides of the world. Despite ...
A little girl invites a small boy to journey with her into the world of imagination. A world where words can take them to castles, and clouds of song. Floating ...
There once was a young girl called Gladys. She wasn’t like most other New Zealand girls. She preferred to fix engines than master needlepoint and other pursuits expected of young ...
A wee, tiny, mouse is fed up of being a wee, tiny mouse. He gets ignored, stood on and forgotten. How can he change things? A strong, noisy, bossy, lion ...
Ella’s elderly neighbour looks sad and unhappy. Ella’s mum explains that Mrs Gooseberry lost her husband and is missing him. She has also lost his love. Ella watches Mrs Gooseberry ...
A young man called Tupaia was born in Ra’iatea. As he grew he’d learned the way of the stars and the sea, the wind and the birds. He was fated ...
Thomas Duncan is so proud of his older brother Jim. He is a soldier training in Egypt with thousands of others, to enable them to join the First World War. ...
Although wordless, this sophisticated picture book portrays so many feelings of anyone leaving loved ones behind and setting out for a new life and land where they can all begin ...
Beatrice Bottomwell did everything well – never putting on odd socks, forgetting her homework or to make her bed. But one day, it finally happens – a mistake… well nearly. ...
Ziba is crammed on the deck of a boat with dozens of others. As the small craft protests against the weight of its human cargo, Ziba closes her eyes to ...
Christopher, his mum and brother Anton have arrived at the end of nowhere, 12,000 miles from home. This is their last stop, all hopes for a new life pinned on ...
Wee Harold, with a purple crayon in hand, sets off on an adventure in his imagination. Whatever he needs or is reminded of, he draws with his crayon. Apple trees, ...