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My Mum is Queen of the Road by Jennifer Beck
Category: NZ Picture Books | Reading Level: near fine
Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen – does she wear diamonds? Does she sit on a throne? Does she have a corgi ...Show more
Remember that November by Jennifer Beck
Category: NZ Picture Books
It’s almost Guy Fawkes Night, and at the school speech competition Andy talks about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. The children cheer excitedly, thinking Andy will win the contest. But then, Aroha gets up, wearing a white feather in her hair, and tells the story of another fifth of November - the in ...Show more
The ANZAC Violin by Jennifer Beck
Category: NZ Picture Books
More than 20 years after publication of the classic NZ story, The Bantam and the Soldier, Jennifer Beck and Robyn Belton have joined forces again to produce another heartwarming story from the First World War. This time it's the true story of Otago's Alexander Aitken and the violin that travelled with h ...Show more
The Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
Category: Picture Books | Series: Bantam and the Soldier | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bant ...Show more
Whetu the Little Blue Duck Trilingual (English/Maori/Pinyin) by Jennifer Beck
Category: NZ Picture Books
Despite facing many dangers, Whetū has survived. He even helps a stranger lost in the mountains. But when his habitat is threatened, who will help save him? This edition is published in English, Māori and Pinyin in partnership with the organisers of New Zealand Chinese Language Week, which this year is ...Show more
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