| Author: | Kyle Mewburn |
| Series: | Dinosaur Rescue |
It can be tough being a boy with a big brain amongst a tribe of Neanderthals! The Nn-Grrrdy are coming to trade and Arg doesn’t want them to get any of his stuff — but in his attempt to hide it, he falls into a deep, dark cave. And scary things lie within …
| Author: | Coleman Polhemus |
A surprising adventure unfolds when a man buys himself an egg for breakfast. The egg starts to hatch and out pops something entirely unexpected!
Coleman Polhemus's retro-style artwork gives this quirky story-in-pictures instant appeal.
| Author: | Jennifer Holland |
| Series: | Unlikely Friendships for Kids |
Prepare to enter an even more adorable animal kingdom of interspecies friendships - because this time, it's for kids!
Jennifer Holland's bestselling book of unlikely animal friendships has been converted into three chapter books for young readers. Each features five amazing stories from the original, rewrit... read more
| Author: | Joke van Leeuwen |
Before he becomes a bush, Toda's father is a pastry chef.
He gets up at the crack of dawn to bake twenty different sorts of pastries and three kinds of cake. Until, one day, everything changes. Fighting breaks out in the south and Toda's father has to go there to defend his country. Luckily he has a manual called... read more
| Author: | Michael Morpurgo |
This is a tender, lyrical tale from the author's childhood in an idyllic English village, with environmental and conservational themes. In this involving tale, master storyteller Michael Morpurgo revisits the "landscape of his memories", telling of his boyhood in the idyllic village of Bradwell fifty years before. The village... read more
| Author: | Margaret Mahy |
| Series: | Early Reader |
Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. When the little boy tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow, she decides to make up a sto... read more
| Author: | Roald Dahl |
| Series: | My Roald Dahl |
Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
| Author: | Jennifer Holland |
| Series: | Unlikely Friendships for Kids |
Prepare to enter an even more adorable animal kingdom of interspecies friendships - because this time, it's for kids!
Jennifer Holland's bestselling book of unlikely animal friendships has been converted into three chapter books for young readers. Each features five amazing stories from the original, rewrit... read more
| Author: | Jennifer Holland |
| Series: | Unlikely Friendships for Kids |
Prepare to enter an even more adorable animal kingdom of interspecies friendships - because this time, it's for kids!
Jennifer Holland's bestselling book of unlikely animal friendships has been converted into three chapter books for young readers. Each features five amazing stories from the original, rewrit... read more
| Author: | Michael Rosen |
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? Michael Rosen - poet, broadcaster and former Children's Laureate, comes up with some of the answers to these key questions in his lively biography of the world's Number1 storytelle... read more
| Author: | Ian Beck |
Flame-haired Charity Delafield has grown up in a vast, isolated house - most of which she is forbidden to explore - by her strict, cold father. With only her kindly nurse, Rose, and her cat Mr Tompkins for company, she knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. What she does know is that she... read more
| Author: | Emma Fischel |
| Series: | Black Cats |
Finn doesn't want to move to the spooky old house in the first place. Soon the strange goings-on and mysterious noises are driving him crazy - and he's driving his family crazy about it. Then he sees the creature that's been hibernating in the wardrobe...It's a Gorgle. A bit like a moth, a bit like a hornet, and a lot like a ... read more
| Author: | J. M. Barrie |
A classic story picture book that will appeal to boys as well as girls, illustrated by an award winning Australian illustrator. This is the Centenary edition which makes it an attractive collectors item.
| Author: | F. E. Higgins |
| Series: | The Phenomenals |
A twisted adventure of intrigue, magic and superstition from the bestselling F. E. Higgins Don't go down to the tar pits, children -- for their shores are lined with the wretched wraiths of all the traitors and murderers who have drowned in its bubbling depths. In the shadows of this putrid place, an unlikely new alliance is ... read more
| Author: | Erica-Jane Waters |
| Series: | Petticoat Pirates |
Together, Marina, Aqua and Oceana are the Petticoat Pirates! Living aboard their ship in the Periwinkle Lagoon, they are surrounded by the magical high seas which hold all sorts of adventure. One day, three beautiful mermaids come to the lagoon to ask for help. A creature of the deep has come and set loose all the sea snails ... read more
| Author: | Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm |
This is a compendium of the Brothers Grimm's most beloved fairy tales, newly translated and accompanied by an array of vintage illustrations.
This book brings together twenty-seven of the most beloved of the famous Grimms' fairy tales, including all the classics, such as "Cinderella", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty" ... read more
| Author: | Simon Morton & Riria Hotere |
Te Papa stores more than 2 million pieces in trust for the nation. 100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa takes readers on a tour behind the scenes of the museum to discover more about 100 of these treasured items. Readers will learn the secrets of the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered, see new and unique spider species, be insp... read more
| Author: | Simon Morton & Riria Hotere |
Te Papa stores more than 2 million pieces in trust for the nation. 100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa takes readers on a tour behind the scenes of the museum to discover more about 100 of these treasured items. Readers will learn the secrets of the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered, see new and unique spider species, be insp... read more
