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Bearymore by Don Freeman
$14.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Picture Puffin books
A circus bear has trouble hibernating and dreaming up a new act at the same time.
Carwash by Lesley Howarth
$15.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S. | Reading Level: 12+
Set in a country village, the novel follows a group of young teenagers through a summer. The story is told mainly through the eyes of Luke as he starts a carwash business to earn money for life's essentials. Additional commentary is provided by Bix, who spends most of her time up a tree.
Do Your ABCs, Little Brown Bear by Jonathan London
$17.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
In this story that's ideal for kids and dads to read together, a bear cub and his papa frolic through the alphabet on their way home. Even the youngest readers will enjoy spotting other animals and objects in the artwork to correspond with each letter. Full color.
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
$14.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S.
Fifteen year old Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin in his own Brooklyn neighbourhood, but is not so sure he fits in at the academy he attends until he meets Ellie. Their relationship begins to blossom, then, suddenly, Jeremiah is killed, for not stopping when the police called him back.
Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen/Jerry Pinkney
$17.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale is beautifully adapted by Caldecott Honor illustrator Jerry Pinkney. Plucking a Danish girl from America's 19th century melting pot, this adaptation sheds new light on the invisibility of the poor among the prosperous--a circumstance as familiar in Andersen's day a ...Show more
Luke Lancelot and the Treasure of the Kings by Giles Andreae
$12.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S.
Luke, Arthur and their sister Gwinnie are magically transported back to Camelot in the hope of finding their father, and returning Pendragon's Belt, with its powers of everlasting life, to its rightful place with the ancient Treasure of the Kings. The children set off on Luke's magnificent flying horse, ...Show more
Millions of Cats (PB) by Wanda Gág
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Picture Puffin books
An American classic with a refrain that millions of kids love to chant: Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats. Wanda G g's enchanting tale of the very old man who went off in search of the prettiest cat in the world for his wife and returned instead with mi ...Show more
Niccolini's Song by Chuck Wilcoxen
$18.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Picture Puffin Books (Paperback)
Niccolini is no ordinary night watchman in the train yard. He sings the anxious locomotives to sleep every night with a traindreaming song about "gentle hills, steady tailwinds, and feathers for freight." Soon parents start to bring their crying babies and sleepless children to the rail yard, hoping to ...Show more
**OP**You Don't Know Me by David Klass
$16.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Teenage Books S. | Reading Level: 12+
In many ways John just looks to be an entirely ordinary teenager. But how well can anyone really know him? Because, if you knew John, you would be able to answer the following questions: If home is where the heart is, where does John live? If school is a place for learning, where does John go each day ...Show more
Rascally Cake (out of print) by Jeanne Willis
$13.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Picture Puffin Story Books | Reading Level: 5+
Rufus O'Parsley wouldn't eat supper unless it was ghastly. Wormcast butties, tubes of glue, pans of slugs in slimy stew. He decides to bake an extra specially revolting cake, but then the cake starts trying to eat him. This book won the 1995 FCBG Children's book award for Best Picture Book.
The Giant's Tooth by Gillian Rubinstein
$12.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Young Puffin Story Books S. | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
One day, during their summer holidays, Tania and Troy find a giant tooth on the beach. Beside it, scrawled in the sand, is a mysterious message. This is a magical adventure - the sort of adventure that can happen only to children and only once in a lifetime.
The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
$14.95 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Books | Reading Level: very good
On holiday, Susan is spirited away down a disused mineshaft by Odo and his Deathguard. Her dangerous adventures provide exciting fantasy for older readers. Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award 1982 Paperback (A Format)