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Big Fish, Little Fish by Melanie Drewery
$17.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
Jeremy wants to win the local fishing competition. He has his heart set on the first prize of a spinning sure-catch reel and a snap-resistant rod. He has plans to go out on his friend's dad's speed boat, but then his grandad offers to take him out in his old rowboat - and his mum accepts on his behalf!A ...Show more
Fishing Fame by Melanie Drewery
$16.50 NZD
Category: NZ fiction
Max really wants to catch a fish big enough so that his name can go on the Fishing Fame Board. He and his cousin Dan steal one of their uncle's paddle boats, which are not for fishing! Max and Dan get stuck at Shark Point, and a gigantic shark gets caught in their lines, pulling their paddle boat along ...Show more
Matariki by Melanie Drewery
$21.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
'Tonight we have to go to bed really early,' said Mum. 'Tomorrow morning we are going to have a surprise.' But what event would be so special to get you up in the middle of a cold New Zealand winter? Matariki is rising and the New Year is on its way.
Nanny Mihi and the Bellbird by Melanie Drewery
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Nanny Mihi | Reading Level: near fine
Staying with Nanny Mihi in the school holidays, her mokopuna (grandchildren) get up to whistle a tune to the birds. One male bellbird learns the tune but come spring he is nowhere to be heard. What has happened? A delightful tale in a new illustrative style for popular childrens character Nanny Mihi. ...Show more
Nanny Mihi and the Rainbow by Melanie Drewery
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Nanny Mihi
Nanny Mihi's mokopuna come to stay during the school holidays. Each day, she sends them out to collect objects of a different colour. They scour the local beach collecting shells, flowers, seaweed and beach detritus left by humans, all the time asking, `why?'. By the week's end they have a collection of ...Show more
Nanny Mihi's Medicine / Nga Rongoa a Nanny Mihi by Melanie Drewery
$25.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
Nanny Mihi's grandchildren excitedly visit her every school holidays. Only this time they arrive with colds ... Nanny takes the kids around her forest and garden, showing them plants that can make them feel better. They find kawakawa and make tea, manuka to put in the bath and clear their stuffy noses, ...Show more
Tahi: One Lucky Kiwi by Melanie Drewery
$20.00 NZD
Category: Childrens picture NZ
This is the true story of the remarkable team effort to save a kiwi that lost its leg. The fictional narrator of the story is a schoolboy who is doing a project on kiwi. This is very much a multi-layered story with the tale of the kiwi running alongside the story of the boy and his attempts to impress h ...Show more
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