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A Present From the Past order quantity
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NZ$ 17.00 each
Paperback
Author: Jennifer Beck Illustrated by Lindy Fisher
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A young girl is reluctantly waiting at the airport for a distant aunt to arrive. But she discovers that the aunt is carrying a special gift from the past.
The story of an archival treasure that has been passed down through generations and has now been brought across the world to be gifted to a young New Zealand girl.

This is a sophisticated picture book based on real events.
During the first World War, soldiers and nurses were given a very special Christmas present from the Princess Mary - a precious box containing sweets or tobacco as the royal family's thanks for the hardship they were undertaking.


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Art Auction Mystery order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author: Anna Nilsen
In Stock: 1
Sixteen famous paintings from collections around the world have been stolen and replaced with clever forgeries. Now these fake paintings, along with sixteen others, are going up for auction. After an anonymous tip, the reader has to come to the rescue! By comparing the paintings to the originals, the reader has all the clues to figure out which paintings are real and which are fakes.
Including work by the world’s most famous artists, this book is part mystery, part puzzle, part art reference book, and all-over fun!

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Asterix and the Class Act H/B order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Albert Uderzo
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Following the world-wide success of Asterix and the Actress, everyone's favourite character returns. Vintage Asterix!

14 new stories including tales of:
  • The day Asterix and Obelix were born (in the middle of a village fish fight)
  • How Obelix goes back to school
  • Fashion in Ancient Gaul
  • How Dogmatix helps the village cockerel win a duel
  • And how he is adopted as a Roman mascot.
  • Asterix as you've never seen him before
  • Obelix's adventures under the mistletoe
  • The bid for the very first Gaulish Olympics
The birth of an idea- the story of the creation of Asterix; and much, much more.

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Belonging (Hardback) order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Jeannie Baker
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As in the author's previous picture book, Window, this book is observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture showing a year's developments. This is Window in reverse, though, with the land being reclaimed from built-up concrete to a gradual greening, shown through the artist's characteristic collage illustrations.




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Billy : A Lolly Leopold Story order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Hardback
Author: Kate De Goldi (illus Jacqui Colley)
In Stock: 1
Billy Button, one of Lolly's classmates from Room 7, can't keep his mouth shut or his temper under control. It makes preparation for the annual Pet and Produce Day a nightmare. Not only that: Room 7 is full of over-achievers, teacher's pets and anarchists - and worse, Billy has to wrestle with the community judges' arcane and rigid rules. Billy's imagination and his Pet and Produce Day projects run riot, and so do the events of P & P Day - just the way Ms Love likes things to go: 'not with a whimper, but a bang!' This emotionally engaging story, as told by Lolly Leopold, explodes onto the page with wit, colour and that magical ingredient that is common to De Goldi and Colley collaborations: originality.
Billy will charm and surprise the thousands of readers who love Clubs.

 
Blue Moon Mountain order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
Paperback
Author: Geraldine McCaughrean
In Stock: 3

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Boy, the Bear, The Baron,The Bard order quantity
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NZ$ 33.00 each
Author: Gregory Rogers
In Stock: 2
brilliant and captivating wordless picture book for ages 6 + about an ordinary boy on an extraordinary time-travel adventure to Shakespeare's London, by the winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal.

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Captain Abdul's Little Treasure order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Colin McNaughton
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Mrs Abdul and the girls are off pirating for a week. And guess who's been left holding the baby? None other than the hairiest, scariest bunch of pirates ever to sail the seven seas. Captain Abdul and his fearsome crew must turn their hooks to babysitting, and soon The Golden Behind - a ship to strike fear into the brave - is nothing more than a floating nursery! Ooh-arrgh!

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Castles order quantity
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NZ$ 37.00 each
Hardback
Author: Colin Thompson
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In this fantastical world there are castles in space, floating castles, castles in the sky and castles made of glass. Each one hides a royal family and there are all the usual mazes, puzzles tricks and messages waiting to be discovered.

Colin Thompson's wonderfully detailed artwork reaches new heights of ingenuity and invention in this brilliant new book.

 
Cheyenne Medicine Hat order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Christy's Dream order quantity
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NZ$ 17.00 each
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Author: Caroline Binch
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Christy longs for a horse of his own. He wants one so badly it makes his insides ache. Lots of other boys on the estate have their own horses so now he's saved up enough money, no-one can stop him making his dream come true. Except his ma. What will she say when he brings his new horse home? Christy's passionate determination to fulfil his dream, set against the realism of a Dublin tower block estate, is perfectly evoked by Caroline Binch's richly detailed illustrations.

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Cinderella order quantity
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NZ$ 17.00 each
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Author: Lynn & David Roberts
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Meet a fashion-conscious fairy godmother with a difference in this stylish reworking of the classic fairy tale by a new brother-and-sister creative duo. Cinderella moves into the era of flapper girls and the Charleston in a new edition of this famous tale of rags to riches. Too blind to see what he is doing, Cinderella's father marries unwisely and brings home a heartless wife, her argumentative daughters and nasty little dog, who make life miserable for Cinderella until she triumphs in the marriage stakes. Fashion illustrator David Roberts brings all these characters to life in his meticulously researched drawings. Lynn Roberts has crafted a humorous story straight from the art deco period that perfectly complements her brother's illustration.

 
Different Like Coco order quantity
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NZ$ 29.95 each
Hardback
Author: Elizabeth Matthews
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Dotty Inventions order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Roger Mcgough
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Dust order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author: Colin Thompson
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In 2005, television news around the world reported the terrible starvation that was killing thousands of people in Niger. As a result, Colin Thompson has called together thirteen talented and internationally famous illustrators to create a book to raise money to try to help.

In a perfect world, this book would not exist. But we do not live in a perfect world. At any given moment of any given day, there are people dying from natural disasters over which we have no control. Beyond natural disasters we add disasters of our making, but even if we all learn to live in peace, there will still be millions of people who need help.

The illustrators who have contributed to this startling book have all done so for free. All royalties earned will be donated to the Save the Children organisation in Australia.

Illustrations by Colin Thompson, Tohby Riddle, Gaye Chapman, Richard Yot, Kim Gamble, Judy Horacek, Tom Byrne, Terry Denton, Emma ... more

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Elephant O.K order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
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Author: Fiona Graham
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Eric order quantity
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NZ$ 12.00 each
Hardback
Author: Shaun Tan
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An intriguing illustrated story about a tiny exchange student.
Eric is eternally curious and effortlessly charming - a house guest whose approach to the world will capture your heart.
This is a beautiful mini gift edition of one of the most loved stories from the multi-award-winning, internationally lauded masterpiece Tales from Outer Suburbia, by Australian author/artist Shaun Tan.

Originally published as part of Tales from Outer Suburbia 2008; this edition 2010.

 
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NZ$ 36.00 each
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Author: Alma Flor Ada
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Fly : How a Perfect Day Can Turn into a Nightmare order quantity
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NZ$ 18.00 each
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Author: Gusti (tr Karen Coeman)
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It was a beautiful morning, and the fly had everything he needed to go swimming: a bag, a ball, a towel and some sunscreen.
The water was not too hot, not to cold, just the way he liked it.
But little did he know, he was in for a big surprise. A delightfully funny, unexpected picture book, in the vein of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, and The Little Mole who knew it was none of his business.
First published in Mexico 2005; this translation 2006.

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Fly, Kite, Fly : A Story of Leonardo and a Bird Catcher order quantity
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NZ$ 27.00 each
Hardback
Author: John Winch
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Giacomo's quest to impress his father and catch an evasive bird is foiled at every attempt because an old man is freeing every bird he catches. Ages 5+.


 
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