|
|
Pete dreams of being an All Black but life isn't easy - other boys in the rugby team are bigger and stronger, the new principal is trying to take Maori culture away from school, and his annoying daughter wants to be Pete's friend. Stuff that. She's a straight up weirdo! The schoo...l bully wants to smash his face in every chance he gets, and on top of that, his best mate isn't being himself lately. What's going on with him?
A book where young characters begin to question their world in Aotearoa. Was land stolen off Maori years ago? If so, what does that mean now? Why was there a war between Maori and Europeans on the banks of the Waikato river? How different are New Zealand Maori from New Zealand Europeans today, and how different did their cultures used to be?
When it seems like everything is against Pete, he has to stand up and fight for what he believes in, and he learns that help can come from the most surprising places.
Read more
|
|
|
It's nearly Christmas time and a boat is riding the waves towards the top of Aotearoa New Zealand. On board are Maori and Europeans, as well as excitable horses and impatient cows.
Step back into the early 1800s and find out how the first Christmas was celebrated in Aotearoa N...ew Zealand.
Read more
|
|
|
Can friendship survive lies, a famous rock band, obsessive fans, and your own family? Sonia found her best friend online and can't wait to meet her. Tressa has carefully faked a boring life. With her rock star father, a media frenzy, a film obsessed brother and a bunch of star-st...ruck fans.... Faking normal just got a whole lot harder!
Read more
|
|
|
Join Riley Hathaway on the most amazing adventures with her Dad, underwater cameraman Steve, to find the largest, most scary and amazing creatures in New Zealand's vast oceans.
Young Ocean Explorers - Love Our Ocean, the book inspired by the popular TV series, features spectac...ular imagery by award-winning photographer, Richard Robinson. It opens up a whole new world, bringing us face to face with the beauty and strangeness of the underwater realm in a quality never seen before.
Riley's adventures bring the natural world closer through amazing facts, stories and interviews with some of New Zealand's top marine experts. Illustrations by popular singer-songwriter, Jamie McDell, add a quirky sense of fun.
Inspiring a generation of kids to put their faces under the ocean's magical surface, experiencing it and wanting to look after it for future generations - this is a book to read again and again.
Read more
|
|
|
Old Russian Jack is a delightful - almost true - story about a famous swagman and the greedy animals who take a big interest in his luggage.
|
|
|
The Six-Foot Rats is being published by the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS), a non-profit organization based in Christchurch. NZAVS campaigns to end animal testing in NZ. The Six-Foot Rats presents the important yet sensitive issue of animal testing to children, in a... light, fun and engaging manner.
Read more
|
|
|
This Senior Chef* cook book is packed full of recipes, cooking tips, nutrition and budgeting advice. Research shows that regular cooking at home improves health and prolongs life! Easy Recipes for One or Two includes recipes from our classes plus more. They are delicious, no-fuss... and full of ingredients that look after your health. If you are 60+ or work with people in this age group, this is a great resource focused on basic cooking skills and gaining health.
Read more
|
|
|
Cooking for Optimists is the result of a decade of thinking, writing and cooking from author Nicole Stock. The book celebrates cooking - all of its meditative, frustrating, rewarding, soul-destroying complexities. There isn't any hyperactive fist pumping about the magic of some s...lightly tweaked pasta recipe, but there is genuine, inspiring enthusiasm for the perfection of the crunch of pastry, or the wobble of a just-set ganache tart.
If there was a theme to this book, "unpretentiousness deliciousness" would be it. Recipes have been compiled not by trend, nor by how they might photograph, but by taste. As a passionate home cook, she is considerate of oven space and timing, realistic with the pressures of jobs and kids and general busyness, but also instils a sense of wonder and giddy gluttony that sweeps you along and makes you, too, eager to cook.
Read more
|
|
|
Everyone wants to live a joyful life. A life where you have the freedom to do what you want, where you are surrounded by people you can trust and you have the energy you need to get things done. Taking control where you can and taking daily action to live well.
There are six f...oundations that we need to address to live this way. Six simple things that we need to address to have an amazing magnificent life.
This book will take you through the six things you need, to get the six things you want.
What every human needs to know!
Read more
|
|
|
Tane Mahuta created the many wonders of nature that surround us today, but humanlife eludes him. As he sculpts the form of a woman from the scared red earth of Papatuanuku, Tane Mahuta can't begin to imagine what he is about to discover and all the beauty it beholds. Woven and Il...lustrated by Xoe Hall. In Full te reo Maori.
Read more
|
