The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona and Peter Opie (eds)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children | Reading Level: very good
A detailed reference book to the histories of more than 500 rhymes and songs, with their parallels, first appearances, origins, and variations. The Opies are unrivalled as authorities on the folklore of childhood.
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
$8.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: very good
One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames ...Show more
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame wrote this story in 1969 for her niece Pamela. This year we reissue this excellent story for children in a beautiful illustrated flexibind gift edition, with ribbon marker. Mona Minim is a house ant about to make her first journey out of the nest. But her excitement at smelling new things, e ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Featuring tales ranging from fantasy to romance, this book includes: the legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; and the spectre bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial.
The Lost World (Puffin Classic) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
To prove himself to the woman he wants to marry, journalist Ed Malone asks for a mission with 'adventure and danger in it'. And although his editor only sends him to interview touchy Professor Challenger, Ed gets more of both than he bargained for. Challenger leads him to a hidden plateau in the South A ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories (Puffin Classics) by Washington Irving
$6.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Bks. | Reading Level: very good
The Lost World is an adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1912.
Anyone But Ivy Pocket (#1 HB) by Caleb Krisp
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Ivy Pocket | Reading Level: very good
Ivy Pocket is a twelve-year-old maid of no importance, with a very lofty opinion of herself. Dumped in Paris by the Countess Carbunkle, who would rather run away to South America than continue in Ivy's companionship, our young heroine (of sorts) finds herself with no money and no home to go to ...until ...Show more
The Other Mother by Matthew Green
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The one he loves most, is the one he knows least Thirteen-year-old Michael Parsons is dealing with a lot. His father's sudden death; his mother's new husband, Glen, who he loathes; his two younger siblings, who he looks after more and more now his mother works extra shifts. And then one day, Michael wak ...Show more
Grace and Fury (#1) by Tracy Banghart
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Grace and Fury | Reading Level: near fine
A must-read fantasy that "breathes new life into the feminist story of oppression and resistance" (Publishers Weekly). Perfect for fans of The Belles, Caraval, and The Handmaid's Tale. Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace--someone to stand by the Heir to the throne as a shi ...Show more