My Dog Bigsy (Board Book) by Alison Lester
$18.00 NZD
Category: Board Books
From Australia's favourite picture-book creator, Alison Lester, comes this energetic story about a little dog who causes a big commotion.Meet my dog Bigsy. He's only small, but everyone knows he's the boss. Each morning he visits the animals on the farm. Squawk, neigh, quack, moo, baa, oink, cluck, purr ...Show more
Motherstone (#3 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good-very good
For Susan and Nick the adventure at last seems at an end. They are leaving he magical land of O, the scene of The Halfmen of O and The Priests of Ferris. But even as they prepare to step back to earth, strange and evil forces reach out to ensnare them. For Susan - and for the Motherstone - there is one ...Show more
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
$24.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Madeline | Reading Level: Children's - Toddlers, Age 2-4
The first of the Madeline children's book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, published in 1939. The classic continues to enjoy a large readership to this day.
Lizard's Tale by Weng Wai Chan
$21.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner-but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself i ...Show more
Little Women (Puffin Designer Classic) by Louisa May Alcott
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
A beautiful hardback cloth cover edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - a novel loved by adults and children alike. Come laugh and cry with the March family. Meg - the sweet-tempered one. Jo - the smart one. Beth - the shy one. Amy - the sassy one. Together they're the March sisters. Their fathe ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic
'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life. Pip is more troubled by his visits to strange old Miss Havisham - her decaying wedding dress and t ...Show more
The Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Reading Level: very good
'Mush on!' Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he'd have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because of that Buck is kidnapped and dragged away from his sunny home to become a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing North. With strength, imagina ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Anne
My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called 'carrots' by Gilbert Blythe. My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves. My regrets: Dying my hair green. Smashing a slate over Gilbert Blythe's head. My dream: To tame my tem ...Show more
Anne of Avonlea (#2 Vintage Classics) by L. M. Montgomery
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Anne Shirley
You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever. I do try to be a little more gro ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Vintage Classics) by Mark Twain
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic
'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them' Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
$17.00 NZD
Category: Classic
'There comes a time in every boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure' Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations. For wherever there is mischief or adventure, Tom is at the heart of it. During one hot summer, Tom wit ...Show more
The Moon and Farmer McPhee (PB) by Margaret Mahy
$21.00 NZD
Category: Margaret Mahy
The cows and sheep think Farmer McPhee should stop frowning and start frisking. But Farmer McPhee just wants to get some sleep! Then one moonlit night, something changes...A collaboration between our best loved writer for children, Margaret Mahy, and the wonderfully quirky illustrator, David Elliot, thi ...Show more