Wonky Donkey's Big Surprise by Craig Smith
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Wonky Donkey
The hee-haw hilarious Wonky Donkey family continues to grow, and in this adventure Wonky has a wonderful surprise for Dinky Donkey. Wee Dinky woke one weekend with wonder in her eyes. Today her daddy Wonky promised such a big surprise. Wonky Donkey wakes up Dinky Donkey to let her know a surprise is ...Show more
The Midnight Adventures of Ruru and Kiwi by Clare Scott; Amy Haarhoff
Category: NZ Picture Books
The delightful rhyming story of Ruru and Kiwi, who host a midnight forest party for their friends. Ruru and Kiwi went into the bush, wrapped snug in night's velvety black. They took some runny manuka honey tied up in a flax-woven sack. Drawing on a cast of nocturnal New Zealand creatures, with award ...Show more
I've Broken My Bum! by Dawn McMillan
Category: NZ Picture Books
What should you do when you fall off your bike and your bum breaks into pieces? Collect them up, take them home and glue them together, of course! But then what happens when the pieces get stuck to the tray on which you're making the repairs? Join the popular character from I Need a New Bum! as he disco ...Show more
Puffin the Architect by Kimberly Andrews
Category: NZ Picture Books
Puffin is an architect who always exceeds her clients' expectations. That is, until she takes on the toughest clients ever - her own pufflings! Puffin takes her tricky new clients on an inspirational tour of her builds. Together they visit all kinds of cleverly designed spaces -Otter's floating home, P ...Show more
Kuwi's Huhu Hunt by Kat Quin
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Kuwi the Kiwi
Kuwi the Kiwi decides to take Chick on his first huhu hunt. They could make huhu hangi, huhu hummus and huhu BBQ...Kuwi is an endangered brown kiwi and a new mum with a very fussy chick. Will she ever find Chick any huhu to eat? A superb book from a well known author and illustrator A simple celebration ...Show more
Te Pīkari Pipi (Pipi Dance) (Māori Edition) by Angie Belcher
Category: NZ Picture Books
Angie Belcher's story is inspired by kai gathering on beaches on either side of Okurei Point near Bay of Plenty township, Maketū. Lily Uivel's illustrations perfectly capture the story's strong sense of discovery and family fun. Translated by Pānia Papa.
The Littlest Lifeguard by Vanessa Hartley-Owen
Category: NZ Picture Books
The littlest lifeguard wants to help, but it only ends in chaos!Just when it seems they will never be part of the team, they discover being the littlest one means you can help in a different way.
You Don't Know How Lucky You Are! Me I Mohio Koe Ki to Waimarietanga! by Belinda O'Keefe; Ross Kinnaird (Illustrator); Te Ama-Rere-Tai Rangihuna (Translator)
Category: NZ Picture Books
When Izzy moans about unloading the dishwasher, Great-uncle Arthur says, 'You don't know how lucky you are!' He's always done something worse - like hand-washing stacks of dishes, or dodging arrows in a battle. As the stories get wilder - taking three days to finish a meal of tough old food, for example ...Show more
Weka's Waiata (Trilingual Ed) by Nikki Slade Robinson
Category: NZ Picture Books
An enchanting story about five young weka who go searching for a different musical sound to create a waiata to welcome their grandparents when they visit.
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Mangō: Sharks and Rays of Aotearoa by Ned Barraud; Andrew Stewart
Category: NZ Picture Books
The oceans surrounding Aotearoa New Zealand are home to over a hundred astonishing and strange species of sharks and rays. This fact-filled book takes you down into the fascinating underwater lives of these expert hunters, illustrates their evolution and explores their place in our culture. And it expla ...Show more
The Adventures of Hutu and Kawa by Avis Acres
Category: NZ Picture Books
Follow the Pohutukawa babies as they set out on canoe adventure and make many forest friends along the way in this gem of a story from 1955. In an old pohutukawa tree between the forest and the sea live two tiny Pohutukawa Babies, Hutu and Kawa. With the help of Grandpa Kiwi, Hutu and Kawa build a canoe ...Show more