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The Christmas Tree Tangle by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Goodness gracious, what do I see?The kitten has climbed the Christmas tree!Climbed so high and climbed so farTo cling with her claws to the Christmas star.Help! A cute little kitten has managed to scale to the very top of the town's Christmas tree. The cat climbs up to rescue her, followed by the dog, t ...Show more
The Dark Blue 100 Ride Bus Ticket by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Carlo and his mother, Jessica, accept a free bus ticket from a strange old woman in the supermarket they are really only being polite. Secretly they think she must be slightly batty, with her talk about hundred free bus rides to the supermarket at the end of the world. And yet, right outside their ...Show more
The Downhill Crocodile Whizz by Margaret Mahy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Stories about odd people and peculiar creatures who have fantastic adventures. In the title story, a speeding crocodile on roller skates attracts a large and happy following, and becomes a kindly baby snatcher.
The Great Piratical Rumbustification by Margaret Mahy
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
HUMOROUS STORIES (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in for quite a surprise... From the rumbustious author and artist team of Margaret Mahy, winner of th ...Show more
The Great Piratical Rumbustification by Margaret Mahy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in for quite a surprise...From the rumbustious author and artist team of Margaret Mahy, winner of the Carnegie medal, and Quentin Blake, the f ...Show more
The Great White Man-Eating Shark: A Cautionary Tale by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Norvin is a boy who looks like a shark. When he straps a homemade dorsal fin to his back, all the other swimmers rush to the beach. He loves having the water to himself - until a real man-eating shark comes along!
The Great White Man-Eating Shark (Early Reader) by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | 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. Norvin is a very good actor, but rather plain. In fact, he looks very like a shark, and more than anything, ...Show more
The Green Bath (HB) by Margaret Mahy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Bath-time turns into a fantastical adventure in the hands of two of children's literature's best. Margaret Mahy and Steven Kellog, two the world's most beloved picture book creators, are reunited for this galloping, free-spirited romp. It begins with Sammy, whose obnoxious neighbors get to go to the bea ...Show more
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary Supplement Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it ...Show more
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
$10.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Reading Level: good
A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. 'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary Supplement Eight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought ...Show more
The Magician of Hoad by Margaret Mahy
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ fiction | Reading Level: good
Forced from his home, 12-year-old Heriot's unwilling steps lead to Diamond, first city of the Hoadara. Serving the King as his magician, and strangely bound to Dysart, the mad prince, Heriot is isolated within the walls of Diamond until he finds Cayley, a wild, ambiguous rat-of-the-city. These two lonel ...Show more
The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate by Margaret Mahy
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Reading Level: very good
Sam has an ordinary life - but his mother used to be a pirate! One day at breakfast, they decide to go to sea and an amazing adventure begins. A brand new picture book edition of this timeless favourite.