Thea the Tūī loves to sing from her nest in a pohutakawa tree. Brite the Dizzy Waggle loves to listen to her, and hangs out under Thea’s tree most days. ...
The Dizzy Waggles are playing a game. They are picking up balls and throwing them through a hanging loop made of sticks. It’s lots of fun for everyone except for ...
A wolf wakes from his slumber. This isn’t just any wolf. This is THE Big Bad Wolf of Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs fame. It is ...
Families are made up in many different ways. There are mums, dads and children. There are children with just a mum, or a dad, or even grandparents. Sometimes a parent ...
Nesbit is pleased to be accepted by a group of kids at his new high school. They are different from anyone he’s known and even into witchery. In fact, when ...
Do you believe in ghosts? Natalie has been asked this question before and is in the ‘definitely not’ camp of thinking. She does however, love anything scary, and she and ...
Billy and his friends Anna, Jimmy and Andy have worked out a plan to be able to spend as much time in Waterfall Woods as they like in the upcoming ...
Ruatapu the Ravenous has the Astromancer Te Kо̄kо̄rangi and her three priests locked in a pit as the nine stars of Matariki begin to appear. There will be no one ...
Rat is happy in his hidey-hole with his treasures. Who could want more than a red velvet slipper to snuggle down into at night, a yellow marble that catches the ...
Marv loves football. He and his mate Jimmy are constantly shooting goals on the pitch, off the pitch and on their gaming screens too. Life is simple. Life is good. ...
Roll up! Roll up! See the Fortuna circus family with your own eyes. Ringmaster extraordinaire and ruler of his domain, Arturo Fortuna ensures a feast for the tongue, the eyes ...
Dan is 13 and it’s the summer before his first year in high school. Middle School hasn’t been kind to him, making him shy and keen to be even more ...
Abel can’t believe he’s finally in the City of Angels. He has landed a part in the relaunch of a hugely popular show on the Omni Channel – called Sunset ...
Sylvia isn’t sure why she agreed to come to this tiny town in Northern England. It’s an hour or so away from her city life in Newcastle with her best ...
A small wooden, candlelit shed is the only place Astrid has ever known. Locked inside by her mother, she is home-schooled, fed well and supplied with books, a laptop and ...
Grace is shocked by the prank pulled on her in a Wellington railway station. Asked to look after a suitcase for a minute by a stranger, something begins to move ...
Gaston wakes up one morning in his barn home and decides to go on a journey. His friends aren’t sure about his sudden decision and are worried for him. But ...
Te Rerehua and her brother Sam love staying with their Grandma and Pōua in their little house next to a big lake named Te Roto o Wairewa. Some people call ...
Max and his family are off to the snow for a skiing holiday. He has brought his friend Hugo along for the fun, and Abby Purcell (his past nemesis) and ...
Rosa, Tilly, Oskar, Milo and Alessia stand in the portal to the great magician, Merlin’s world. But somehow it doesn’t feel right. There are tourists everywhere, not knights and fair ...
A handful of small boats sit abandoned in the floodwaters…. Not far away are small pockets of land above the water that were once a zoo. Buildings long since left ...
Petra – An organiser. Called bossy by her stepbrother Nolan and by pretty much anyone else who ever meets her. She likes to be on top of things, so when ...
Have you heard of Pahu (Hector’s dolphin) or Popoto (Māui dolphin)? These are the rarest dolphins in New Zealand, and the Māui dolphin is the rarest in the world! There ...
When Olive is called to the school office while in class, her heart begins to race. Has something terrible happened? Her mother is waiting for her, and tells Olive she ...
Bear is up and ready for a great day. The sun is shining when he strolls out of his cave. He’s looking forward to a forest party later that night with ...
Rebecca is shy. Really shy. She’s not sure why, and she wishes she was more like the kids at school. They can make friends easily, play together in the school ...
Hannah and Sophie are close after growing up together. They are not only best friends, they are cousins. But they live different lives. Sophie lives in a grand house and ...
Jude is the only guy among his siblings, but he’s okay with that. He is close to all his sisters including his twin, Prue. His best friend Ari is a ...
Poto is worried. She and her younger sister have been out flying and after returning to their whānau nest, discover it empty. Poto is supposed to be looking after her ...
Basti is happy in her life as the Apprentice Witnesser in her small town. Her guardian and main miracle witnesser is a tall, beautiful black woman named Lodyma Darsey. She ...