When Duncan opens his crayons to draw one day, he finds a pile of letters. They are from the crayons, and they are all very cross. Yellow and Orange are ...
Do you want to know more te reo? This is a great book for young and old, to introduce normal everyday things in English and Māori. Your face, body, animals, ...
It wasn’t planned. It completely freaks her out. When Ethel Leatherman orders some Chinese herbal medicine for her excruciating acne from the internet, and then falls asleep on a faulty ...
Two teens – both in hospital for treatment for their Cystic Fibrosis, and both diagnosed terminal. Stella has been visiting this hospital since she was six. She sees it as ...
The Noughts – Fair skinned, manual workers, housemaids, oppressed. Meet Callum, a teen determined to do better than other Noughts. His father is supporting him, his mother and older brother ...
Little Hector wants to play with his friends in their cove, but there is danger everywhere! The fishing boats have large nets they can be caught in. The ball they ...
Maggie and Jordan are returning to their small town with their families, keen to pick up their lives after being evacuated many months before. This mass evacuation was due to ...
Have you ever heard that fairies are born from a baby’s first laugh? Monsters however, come from a last dying sigh of regret. Imp is a monster – formed by ...
Arthur and Rose are twins, and used to be very close. Now they are older, something has changed. No longer in the same classrooms and with different interests, they have ...
Twins, Rose and Arthur can’t wait to get back to The Land of Roar, and the perfect opportunity arises a few months after their last adventure. (The Land of Roar ...
Frenemies Jimmy Cook and Alice Toole have just realised that they have birthday parties planned, and invitations sent out to their entire class – on the same day! So begins ...
When you look at a horse, what do you see? Colour or lines, or solid, chunky form? Strength, beauty or creatures from a dream? Horses have been depicted in art ...
With her beloved father at her side, a little girl loves life – exploring, experiencing and exclaiming at the wonder of the world around her. But when he is gone, ...
Aroha loves to skip and spin and play with her friends. But every now and then, she feels flat and her confidence shrinks away. She feels alone and believes a ...
Spalding has always had his parents and home all to himself, so when his mum and dad bring home a new baby brother he is shocked. No way! Spalding is ...
Five dragons have been raised from eggs, underneath a mountain and away from danger. They have been taught how to fight, their history, and their destiny. They are the five ...
Squish Rabbit is just a little rabbit, but being so little makes his fears BIG! He is scared of chickens and storms and especially the dark. When he finds himself ...
Polly and Buster have been best friends forever. But lately their parents have told them that they are too old to be playing with each other. Monsters don’t play with ...
Fantastic illustrations fill this series, as always with Donovan Bixley’s work. There’s tons of action, likeable characters and the beginnings of other storylines are threaded through these stories about the ...
When a stranger arrives in the Crafty Trout Tavern, looking for Captain Catnip, no-one suspects any trouble. But trouble arrives with a capital T, and Captain Catnip is up to ...
Not many kiwis know about our very own dinosaur hunter, Joan Wiffen. As a wife and mother, and with no formal education, Joan fell in love with the study of ...
Bobby is a bright yellow canary, looked after by a young soldier called Jack. Jack is part of a team of tunnel diggers in World War I. Bobby’s job is ...
Beekle lives in a fantastical land with all the other magical imaginary friends, all waiting for their special someone to need them. Beekle waited and waited, watching other creatures fly ...
Biff is a dog who LOVES Ballet. He sits with his owner (a little girl) to watch ballet on TV, gazes at her little tutu hanging high above him, and ...
Nanna’s button tin holds a wealth of stories. While a little girl searches for a button for her teddy who is missing one button eye, her Nanna tells her where ...
Emika Chen has survived the Warcross Games, but is devastated by the truth about Warcross designer and owner Hideo Tanaka. They have become close, but what he’s planned for his ...
Vita and her mum are visiting New York to convince her beloved Grandfather to return to the UK with them. After losing his wife who was his entire world, he ...
