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Bumble-Ardy by Maurice Sendak
$30.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Reading Level: very good
From the creator of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE! BUMBLE-ARDY is a glorious picture book about a mischievous pig who has reached the age of nine without ever having had a birthday party. But all that changes when Bumble throws a party for himself and invites all his friends, leading to a wild masquerade th ...Show more
Hector Protector by Maurice Sendak
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Join Maurice Sendak in his mischievous retellings of Hector Protector and As I Went Over The Water. This hilarious little book is packed with the charm and humour of the great Maurice Sendak, creator of Where The Wild Things Are.
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
"A daring imagination has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale about Jennie, the Sealyham terrier, who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre."
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
$22.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
"The second in the trilogy which began with the best selling Where the Wild Things Are Sendak's hero Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake. So begins an intoxicating dream fantasy, described by the artist himself as 'a fantasy ten feet de ...Show more
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's classics | Series: Caldecott Collection
From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create. In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adve ...Show more
Kei Te Kihini O Te Po (In the Night Kitchen Maori Edition) by Maurice Sendak; Brian Morris (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
The book is reproduced as the original with its comic-strip-like illustrations by Maurice Sendak and the rhythmical, chanting te reo Maori telling the story of Mickey's dream of falling into cake mix and flying in a plane of bread dough to find milk for the cake batter.
King Grisly-Beard by Maurice Sendak
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A boy and girl walk into a theatre and proceed to act out the whole of Grimm's King Grisly-Beard for the reader. And they are indubitably good. When a princess refuses to marry any of the princes her father has lined up, he marries her to a poor musician who takes her to his hovel home and makes her wor ...Show more
Mummy? Pop-up Book by Maurice Sendak
$30.00 NZD
Category: Picture books | Reading Level: From 3 To 5
When baby cannot find mummy he goes looking for her. Along the way, this troublesome tyke meets some ghoulish monsters so scary they literally burst off the page - but they're the ones who are in for a shock! Watch out for the frightening fiends, check behind all closed doors and find if brave baby will ...Show more
My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak
$33.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
My Brother's Book is Maurice Sendak's last complete work and one that he considered the most important. A moving homage to his brother, Jack, in which Sendak's poignant verse is paired with exquisite artwork. Fifty years after the Caldecott Award-winning Where the Wild Things Are was published, comes Ma ...Show more
Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak
$21.00 NZD
Category: Anthologies and Treasuries | Series: Caldecott Collection
This 4-volume boxed set contains an alphabet book, a book of rhymes about each month, a counting book, and a cautionary tale all written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Includes the titles "Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, " and "Pierre."(Titles available separately in l ...Show more
Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
$27.99 NZD
Category: Picture books | Reading Level: very good
While Ida is busy playing her wonder horn faceless goblins come in through the bedroom window and kidnap her baby sister. So Ida puts on her mother's yellow rain cloak and sets off on a mystical journey into outside over there, to rescue her sister and save her from having to become a nasty goblin's bri ...Show more
Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue by Maurice Sendak
$13.00 NZD
Category: No Category
"A story with a moral air about Pierre, who learned to care". Young Pierre, whose favorite line is "I don't care!" changes his mind after meeting a hungry lion. Three-color illustrations.