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A Booming in the Night by Ben Brown
$16.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo is lonely so Pukeko sets out to find him a friend. But perhaps Kakapo doesn?t need Pukeko?s help at all ? the booming in the night seems to be attracting the right sort of company. A delightful story, beautifully written and illustrated by the author and illustrator team who produced Natural New ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
A Fish in the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
‘This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories — distorted by time and distance and a writer’s choice of words…’ Ben Brown writes of that quintessentially New Zealand way of living that may not change the world or eve ...Show more
Bailed to Fail by Brown Ben
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
In 2021, Lyttelton poet Ben Brown spent time with the young offenders housed in the country's Oranga Tamariki youth justice residences, sharing korero and kupu and tikanga. This putunga korero collects the words the rangatahi were inspired to write in their sessions with Ben, many of them putting their ...Show more
Between the Kindling and the Blaze: Reflections on the Concept of Mana by Ben Brown
$27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
A bold exploration of the concept of mana, undertaken in resonant poetry and short prose pieces. Completed on the Michael King Writers' Centre Maori Writer's Residency 2011. Book + Audio CD
Fifty-five Feathers by Ben Brown; Helen Taylor
$19.90 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
Pukeko is worried about her friend Gecko who seems to be suffering in the cold of winter, so she asks Wise Old Tree for some advice. 'Make him a cloak of fifty-five feathers,' she is told, and so Pukeko sets out to help her friend.
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Pukeko Counts to 10: Ka Tatau a Pūkeko ki te 10 by Ben Brown
$15.99 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
A beautiful bilingual counting board book for toddlers featuring the birds of Aotearoa, from poet Ben Brown and illustrator Helen Taylor.Let's go visiting with Pukeko, and count up the birds together in Maori and English!With durable card leaves at a suitable size for little hands, and gorgeous page des ...Show more
Pukeko Counts to Ten (Frieze) O/P by Ben Brown
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
The beautiful artwork from 55 Feathers is now available as a stunning frieze for the wall.Children will be able to read the story of how pukeko makes a cloak for her friend gecko and then count the creatures in the frieze.
The Great Orlando by Ben Brown
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
Sunday Jones is a boy with a loving mother who protected him from a miserable and cruel father. Then his mother dies, leaving Sunday's father to make his life a misery. For the end of year concert, Sunday decides he will be a magician, The Great Orlando. On the night he impresses the audience (except hi ...Show more
The Rainmakers by Ben Brown
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
Pukeko has always wanted a rainbow, so she chases one to a nearby mountain into her swamp, bringing everlasting rain to the mountain. When the kea who own the rainbow find out who has stolen their precious treasure, they set out to get it back.
The Song of the Ship Rat by Ben Brown
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: 5+
Unroll the maps to Far Away! We’ll sail before the sun … Join our weary ship rat as he reminisces of days gone by, his travels around the world and the sights he’s seen, written in lyrical, evocative language.
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