Staying at Sam's by Jenny Hessell
$5.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Sam's friend has come to stay for the weekend and the demonstrative behaviour in Sam's house seems different from the quiet of his own home. The differences of life style and atmosphere are sensitively described.
The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played the Violin being an explanation of why the streets are not full of happy dancing people by David McKee
$6.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Veronica is famous for making people cry - by playing her violin. She starts off by making her neighbours wail, but soon they are weeping for joy. Now she needs a new challenge, and so heads off to the jungle to discover a different kind of music.
The Mystery of the Blue Arrows by Chuck McKee
$8.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
The Lost Toys by Irina Hale
$6.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Picture Puffins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It's Halloween by Jack Prelutsky
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Mulberry Read-Alones | Reading Level: very good
Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews.
The Story of a New Zealand Truck Driver (Handmade Histories) by Mary Kelleher
$10.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Handmade Histories | Reading Level: very good
Travel along the button road with Bert Williams and learn more about his life as a truck driver from the people who knew him. Bert was a real person and his story is told in wool, cotton and linen, buttons, beads and pebbles, cardboard, Dinky miniature toy trucks and Meccano. Bert was known by many diff ...Show more
The Woven Flax Kete by Angie Belcher
$6.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
RawiriâÃÂÃÂs class is visiting the Whirinaki Forest and his grandmother has given him a tatty old kete to collect treasures in. But what treasures does she actually meanB By the end of his trip Rawiri has learnt that not all treasures can be carried in a kete. Te Reo version also available. ...Show more
Olwen Twelve Pockets by Fiona McKay
$6.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Olwen loved pockets. In each of her twelve pockets she kept something useful. But in the biggest pocket of them all she kept something really special....
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business by Werner Holzwarth
$6.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
Near-sighted Mole climbs out of his tunnel only to have a large poo drop on his head. Needless to say, Mole is not pleased with this in the least, and so he begins a journey to find the offending animal. Is he looking for revenge?