Tanya can’t help the trouble that follows her around. She can’t explain it to anyone either. Who would believe in the strange creatures that appear everywhere she goes, let alone ...
Spaghetti Giraffe and his other ‘animal’ friends live under an oven in the kitchen of Mina Cucina. Marshmallo Pig, Macaroni Snail, Prune Hedgehogs, Blue Speckled Giraffe and Fluff Monkey, and ...
Artemis Fowl is a very wealthy child genius. He has discovered a world that lives alongside humankind. A world of Fairie, Trolls, Goblins and powerful magic. When he discovers the ...
Greg is back in another episode of his life. Lots is going on, including schemes to make money, tricks to get people to his yard sale and how to become ...
When a tiny mouse (only the size of a walnut!) is knocked over by a flying envelope, he is shocked but then pleasantly surprised. After all, it’s cold with snow ...
Sophia loves helping around her house even when she’s very young and then also helping others, alongside her beloved Abuelo. But when he is hurt one day at a local ...
Elves and Santa are frantic at the North Pole. Time is swiftly running out and ten billion presents need to be ready and wrapped for Christmas Eve. Green elves were ...
Everyone is getting ready for Christmas in NZ. Tinsel, pressies, ham and hangi pit – it’s all go. But then they hear the news. Santa has cancelled Christmas! WHAT!!?? Santa ...
Sunny the Meerkat is a little confused. His family are preparing their sandy burrow, decorating the cactus and making decorations out of desert creatures. But that’s not how Christmas looks ...
Chegwin Toffle’s parents sit him down to give him some startling news. They know it won’t be an easy thing to do. Not because the news is terrible, but because ...
Thomas wakes. It’s dark. He’s surrounded by a rumbling, scraping sound and he’s moving. Where am I? What’s happening? All he can remember is his name. Finally the moving stops and ...
This illustrated New Zealand Picture Book has multi readership properties. After an introduction about this gorgeous NZ native bird, the left side pages have rhyming text to tell the story, ...
Fresh from defeating the Maze and The Creators, Thomas allows himself to relax for the moment. They are safe. They are fed. They are alive! Or so they think. WICKED ...
Thomas and his friends have survived the latest challenges thrown at them by the organisation called WICKED (World in Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Dept). Thinking they are finally safe, Thomas is ...
Little Red Riding Hood’s mum isn’t worried when her daughter goes hunting for a wolf. After all, no one has seen one for a hundred years. Red finds it much ...
Rabbit doesn’t want to go to bed. He’s not tired and that’s that. He quickly figures out it’s Dark that signals bedtime, and if Dark doesn’t arrive he can stay ...
Deep in the Great Wood stands a magical tree. It’s called the Forever Tree. Anything made from its wood has magical properties. Three children, Zam Zephyr, Phoebe Limetree and Bathsheba Greengrass ...
Amy Taylor loves cars. Especially classic James Bond type cars, and her mum’s transit van. Why the van? Because ever since a terrible car accident, Amy has been in a wheelchair. ...
Julian is older now and attends a new school. He has a project for his Humanities class that requires him to write an essay about someone he knows. He calls ...
Artemis Fowl has younger brothers – twins in fact. One, like Artemis, is a genius. Myles likes nothing more than learning and spouts lyrical at anyone who will listen. That’s ...
They’re back in a brand new episode – No. 38! After 60 years, we meet the series’ first female heroine, Adrenaline. The daughter of a famous chief, Asterix and Obelix ...
Selina hates being laughed at when she is at school. She has inherited thick, curly, wavy BIG hair from her parent’s Samoan, Tuvaluan, Scottish, English, French and NZ backgrounds. Kids ...
Before the settlers, before Captain Cook, Abel Tasman, or any Pacific explorers reached NZ shores – Aotearoa was covered in lush forest and bush, with a plethora of creatures large ...
Tim Tipene shares tales of his childhood in this new collection of short stories. Although neglected, abused and always on alert in case ofviolence, Timothy tries to do his best ...
Phoebe is small with grey feathers. She feels invisible and would love to be colourful and noticed! A visit to Zelda’s popular forest beauty salon is the first step to ...
Everyone in the forest is yawning and ready to sleep. The mice, the hares, the deer and Mama Bear. But Little Bear isn’t having it. He’s wide awake and keen ...
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 ...
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 ...