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 ...
Omar lived in a peaceful town in the Afghanistan countryside with his mum, dad and sister. Life was good. He loved cricket and despite hissmall stature, was an excellent all-round ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This book should be read by all New Zealanders to help understand our history from as far back as 1769. This graphic novel explains this simply in three parts: 1: Before ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sam, his 7 yr old sister Freya, and his older brother Ethan have been called to a family meeting by their parents. Sam and Ethan think “divorce!” and Freya begins ...
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 wondering ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...