Books in the Kiwi Corkers Great New Zealand Yarns series
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The story of the Little red hen is retold with a New Zealand twist. Little blue duck decides to make a pavlova, but tui, kiwi and weta are no help at all, leaving her to do all the work.
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A rhyming Kiwi retelling of the traditional story of Goldilocks and the three bears. However in this version "Goldie" is a little kiwi girl who eats the fish and chip dinner of three penguins. Suggested level: junior, primary.
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In this humourous Kiwi version of The Ugly Duckling, the young kiwi that hatches doesn't understand why he looks different, and why, when he want to gallivant around at night, all the pukekos want to sleep!
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A retelling of the classic There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly with a unique and fun Kiwi angle.
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Miserly old Jerry from the Kai Corner Dairy is the New Zealand equivalent of Scrooge. Children will love spotting the odd kiwi icon in Webb's humorous illustrations.
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Kiwi kids will love this homegrown version of The Three Little Pigs, where the wolf is substituted for a weasel and the houses are made from ferns, paua shells and hangi stones!
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The story of The tortoise and the hare is retold with a New Zealand twist where a slow native tuatara and a quick little skink are pitted against each other to prove that slow and steady wins the race.
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"A rhyming Kiwi retelling of the traditional story of The Princess and the Frog. In this case the princess is a rugby-mad kiwi girl called Kiri, and the frog is in fact an All Black trapped in a frog's body"--Publisher information. Suggested level: junior, primary.
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When Little Red has to get on her bike to take some bikkies to her Nana who is crook, the cunning kuri gets there first! But he's no match for team Little Red ...
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The story of Dickens' A Christmas carol' retold with a New Zealand twist.
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