The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamín Franklin
16.99 NZD
Category: Children's Books
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a memoir written by one of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin. The book is a detailed account of Franklin's life, from his childhood in Boston to his career as a printer, inventor, and diplomat.Franklin's autobiography is divided into f ...Show more
Hopeless Heroes: Problems with Pythagoras by Stella Tarakson; Nick Roberts (Illustrator)
20.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Hopeless Heroes Ser.
Book 4 in the Hopeless Heroes series that takes readers on fun adventures back to Ancient Greece! Tim Baker's got problems: he's failing math, banished from Ancient Greece, and confused about what to call Mum's new boyfriend. What makes a good father anyway? Is it strength, courage and- "Strength!" -li ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Mophead
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more
Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh
30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Mophead
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh. At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries to fit in. Until ...Show more
Children's Book of First Aid Skills by Giles Sophie; Anna Award
25.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Star Rewards - Life Skills for Kids Ser.
Designed to enable children to understand the basics of how to look after themselves and others, using scenarios to illustrate what needs to be done, and how to do it safely.
ReMaking History - The Gallery of Ancient Scientists by William Gurstelle
32.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
William Gurstelle begins his remarkable journey through history with this volume, Early Makers. Each chapter examines a remarkable individual or group of people from the past whose insights and inventions helped create the world we live in. What sets this series apart from other history books - includin ...Show more
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
15.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
The story of Max, who is so naughty the night he wears his wolf suit that he's sent to bed without any supper. In the night a whole land of forests and seas appears in Max's bedroom, and he sails away to the land where the wild things are.
The Return of the Buffaloes - A Plains Indian Story about Famine and Renewal of the Earth by Paul Goble
25.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
Dispatched to learn what has become of the buffalo herds that sustain their people, two Great Plains Native American scouts encounter a mysterious spirit woman who helps them out of their predicament
The Pythagoras Solution by Larry J. Galvin
15.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
The Masons have just returned from New York and are elated about being able to solve their first mystery, The Number Sheet Puzzle. Eager to try their detective skills elsewhere, they turn their attention to a seventeen-year-old murder/mystery involving the deaths of a philanthropist and his killer and t ...Show more
Proof - An Illustrated Fable by Harpeth Rivers
4.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
This multi-generational story is meant to be read aloud. The drawings and dialogue suggest an intuitive proof for the Theorem of Pythagoras.
In the Realms of Gold by Christopher Thomas
20.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books
What do an ancient Greek philosopher, a nineteenth century sea captain and a twentieth century architect have in common? That's what twelve-year-old Alice Lee and her twin brother Dexter want to find out. Together, they have spent their lives following their archaeologist parents from one university to ...Show more
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3) by Madeleine L'Engle
30.00 NZD
Category: Children's Books | Series: Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet
In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not ...Show more