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Flit the Fantail and the Christmas Crash Book Review Cover

Flit the Fantail and the Christmas Crash

One summer evening as the dark approaches, Flit flies higher than ever before. He’s flipping and fluttering before tumbling from .....

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A Screw Loose Book Review Cover

A Screw Loose

When called to a family announcement, Finn just hopes it will be over and done with soon. He has gaming .....

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Kiwis and Koalas Bridge to Anywhere Book Review Cover

Kiwis and Koalas Bridge to Anywhere

Lily is excited about seeing her cousins Tama and Olivia arrive from Australia. Watching a plane arrive, she hopes that .....

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Samples from the Lab Book Review Cover

Samples From The Lab

K.R.A.P – The Karacter Recognition and Promotion Society, wish to correct a wrong doing – namely, the suspicion of unethical .....

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What's in a Name Book Review Cover

What’s In A Name? He Aha To Te Ingoa?

Priyanka and her classmates are in their final year before they attend a new school. A special end of year .....

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The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery the Mysterious Bird of Mystery Book Review Cover

The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery the Mysterious Bird of Mystery

Gramps has moved into the Twilight Retirement Home, and his grandson visits him after school every Wednesday. They’ll have a .....

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Elephant Park Book Review Cover

Elephant Park

A boy stops to look up at an old elephant in the park. This elephant has a slide over her .....

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Snake & Lizard 2024 Edition Book Review Cover

Snake and Lizard

Snake and Lizard first meet as they seek quiet, sunny spots. They are usually alone when they do this, but .....

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The Mess of our Lives Book Review Cover

The Mess Of Our Lives

Jordan just wants to leave. He’s in his last year of school, and his worries and fears and way of .....

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There's a crab in my castle Book Review Cover

There’s a Crab in my Castle! He Pāpaka kei taku Pā!

A grand sandcastle stands upon the beach. A crab sits upon a sand throne inside, looking out across his beach .....

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The Gavin Bishop Treasury Book Review Cover

The Gavin Bishop Treasury

Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant – A grumpy lady in a New Zealand town was a terrible grump. She .....

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Penguins Don't Send Postcards Book Review Cover

Penguins Don’t Send Post Cards

Tawaki is a Fiordland Crested Penguin making his way down to the ocean. His distinctive yellow feathers across both sides .....

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Maddison McQueen and the Cupcake Mystery Book Review Cover

Maddison McQueen and the Cupcake Mystery – The Red Collie Mysteries (1)

Maddison is excited about the coming A&P (agricultural & pastoral) Show coming to Wanaka. She knows there is much more .....

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Maddison McQueen and the Disappearing Dogs Book Review Cover

Maddison McQueen and the Disappearing Dogs – The Red Collie Mysteries (2)

It’s the last thing Maddie expects when she drops her border collie named Ruby off at Doggy Daycare on the .....

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Beddy-Bye Time in the Kowhai Tree Book Review

Beddy-Bye Time in the Kowhai Tree

It’s time for bed. A young child gets ready for bed, with his parents help. This begins with a look .....

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The Pohutakawa Tree Book Review Cover

The Pōhutukawa Tree

A gift of a special seed begins a journey of both a family and a young sapling through generations. Standing .....

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A Lot of Silly Book Review Cover

A Lot of Silly – A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense

This full colour hardback is a wild and wacky, perfectly silly and always entertaining, collection of Joy Cowley’s rhymes, poems .....

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Saving Wananga Book Review Cover

Saving Wānanga

Kea are cheeky birds, but Wānanga is cheekier than most. Only he would be brave enough among his feathered friends .....

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Tasting with your feet Book Review Cover

Tasting with your feet

Tasting with your feet? We can’t taste with our feet but some animals can! Humans seem the cleverest of the .....

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Through the Gap Book Review Cover

Through The Gap

Barnaby likes his new home, and he can already see that the tree near his bedroom window has potential for .....

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Kia Ora Baby Book Review Cover

Kia Ora Baby

There’s a baby on the way! A small child knows that there is a baby in mummy’s tummy, but isn’t .....

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Jason Mason and the Dastardly Master of Disguise Book Review Cover

Jason Mason (3) and Dastardly Master of Disguise

Jason Mason is on a new top secret mission. This time it’s in the City of Love – Paris, France. .....

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Kiwi Bees have Tiny Knees Book Review Cover

Kiwi Bees Have Tiny Knees – Native Bees of Aotearoa New Zealand

Did you know that New Zealand has it’s own special native bees? Smaller than a bumblebee. Smaller than a honey .....

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The Butterfly Fluttered By

Open this beautifully illustrated book to meet the cast of the story. You will see a plethora of creatures that .....

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Awatea's Treasure Book Review Cover

Awatea’s Treasure

Awa loves spending time on his grandparent’s farm, far from home and close to the sea. He helps bring the .....

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Awatea and the Kawa Gang Book Review Cover

Awatea and the Kawa Gang

Awa is back staying with his grandparents on the East Coast of New Zealand. After spending time with them before, .....

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Awatea's Secret Book Review Cover

Awatea’s Secret

Back in their own home, brothers Awatea and Tai miss having adventures at Mangokuri with their grandparents, and their parrot .....

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The Witch of Maketu Book Review Cover

The Witch of Maketu

The Witch of Maketu is cranky. She has a pen of lambs outside which she intends to eat. But whether .....

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Lisa Carrington Chases a Champion Book Review Cover

Lisa Carrington Chases a Champion

Lisa loves Sundays! These are the days of Surf Club and time spent on the waves at the beach on .....

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The Ever Standing Tree Book Review Cover

The Ever-Standing Tree – Te Rākau Tū Tonu

Pani and Waima aren’t happy with Dad’s new idea. He has taken an axe to the tree behind their house, .....

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