As children climb into their beds at night, so do the tūī, the pīwakawaka, and the kererū. But as they all settle, other animals of Aoteroa are just waking up, ...
A Pūkeko detective has a mystery on his hands. “What do you call a Pūkeko with a mystery on his hands?” “Clue-keko.” Readers can follow Detective Pūkeko through the pages ...
A young mouse wakes full of day dreams of what he might be. Will he be an artist? If so, would his mum still scold him for painting on the ...
Written with love from his own childhood memories on a New Zealand farm, Ned Barraud has captured a rural kiwi summer perfectly on the page. For all who have experienced ...
Zeb the Zebra, Marmalade the Penguin and Barry the Lemur are standing in line. This line of animals is very, very, very long and the three friends just happen to ...
Charlie loves hanging out with his whānau, especially his dad. But something’s changed for Charlie lately, and the first person he wants to tell is his pāpā. Pāpā’s response is ...
Nissa can’t stop thinking about it. She may have been famous at home and school for a while, after surviving alone in the rugged bush of Fiordland (NZ), but all ...
Purrlock and Marlowe are not only best friends, they are partners in the Paw & Order Private Detective Agency. One day while Marlowe catches up on the news, Purrlock is ...
Niki Dawson didn’t mean to do it. She was playing with her friends at school when she landed in a bush. The school caretaker isn’t happy at one of his ...
Patrick or Patch as he now prefers, has a plan for the coming year. Prom is in the plan, and his creative side has him as head of the decoration ...
Haymitch Abernathy is in two minds as he wakes on his 16th birthday. As he wonders what might await him from his Ma and little brother Sid, he’s already planning duck any ...
A bus that has seen better travels, winds its way through a river gorge. Full of high school students and their teacher, it suddenly swerves and plummets over the side….. ...
Pusskin has always been told he is special. His mother even called him a Prince, telling him he was destined for leadership and great things. Pusskin however, is quite happy ...
Angus hates History. It’s so booooring. And pointless! Who cares what happened 100s or even 1000s of years ago? His History teacher has given them homework and Angus doesn’t know ...
Alyce has been named after her grandmother, but with a Y. She never thought it would be a problem until one day she is thrown into an adventure that defies ...
With no shops, cafes or other things people stop in towns for, Te Mata Hāpuku isn’t very exciting. One thing tourists do stop for is the possibility of finding agate ...
For three long years Samira Zidane and her mother have belonged to the French Resistance in Northern France. The German Empire took control four years before, ruling with an iron ...
The narrator of this picture book admits something on the 1st page. He’s a worrier. He even worries about his worrying because he knows his worries are not normal. There ...
Aotearoa is a land of around 20,000 species of insect. And most of them can only be found right here! Our insects live from the tip of the North Island ...
Reyha lives in a small village with her ailing mother. She has been taught to hunt by her father, so can keep them fed, but now her father is dead, ...
Josephine Eloise Thomas (Jet) and her family have moved to France to renovate an old chateau and look for any information they can find about Jet’s mum. Jet doesn’t remember ...
Josephine and Gabriel are the talk of their little town and all of France. Defeating art thieves and enabling the return of priceless artworks thought to be lost forever has ...
It’s the year of 2654. This year is no different, and any who wish to join the prestigious Starquest Academy must enter a competition of survival over 3 days and ...
Kimi is excited about his coming of age journey to the Stone Circle with all the other Kekeno. But when his mum is badly injured by a local shark, he ...
Anahera is a kiwi who was born in 1979. Her and her brother were found by forestry workers when they were clearing trees. They were both taken to the Ōtorohanga ...
Astrid and Jonas feel like they will never fit in anywhere. As twins, at least they have each other and the solid vow between them that – it’s them together, ...