How to be a Good Parent by Jaqueline Mitchell
22.00 NZD
Category: Humour
To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done. The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten. If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied. These are just a few of the words of wisdom on offer in How to be ...Show more
Is It Bedtime Yet? by Emily Writes
35.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: near fine
A collection of writings on being a parent in Aotearoa - from hilarious to heart-breaking. The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them are ...Show more
Common Prayer Gift Edition by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
25.00 NZD
Category: Humour
This is an illustrated collection of prayers. It contains 28 meditations/prayers, plus an introduction on prayer. The prayers have an element of social comment for a secular audience.
Prayer Tree - Gift Edition by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
22.00 NZD
Category: Humour
A person kneels to contemplate a tree and to reflect upon the troubles and joys of life. The person imagines mornings and evenings in a great forest of prayers, swarming and teeming with life. The person is learning how to pray. Michael Leunig.
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
28.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French
28.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia. Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. ...Show more
Jock's Country by David Henshaw
50.00 NZD
Category: Humour
A long-time resident of Tamahere in Waikato, David communicated with farmers for more than 40 years through his cartoons - his main character, Jock, is recognised as a national identity. His cartoons appeared in the New Zealand Farmer for 34 years and on the Jock calendar for the past 17 years. The cart ...Show more
Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers - A Little Book of Wisdom and Whimsy from the New York Public Library by New York Public Library Staff; Barry Blitt (Illustrator)
35.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Have you've ever wondered if you can keep an octopus in a private home? Do you spend your time thinking about how much Napoleon's brain weighed? If so, Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers is the book for you. The New York Public Library has been fielding questions like these ever since it was found ...Show more
On Hampstead Heath by Marika Cobbold
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'No one writes about life quite like Marika Cobbold; no one combines light and dark, humorous and profound, joyous and sorrowful quite so expertly' Guardian Thorn Marsh was raised in a house of whispers, of meaningful glances and half- finished sentences. Now she's a journalist with a passion for tr ...Show more
Really Important Stuff My Dog Has Taught Me by COPELAND, CYNTHIA
30.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Playful spaniels completely covered with snow There s no such thing as bad weather. Two happy dogs sleeping, one on top of the other Sometimes you need a pillow. Sometimes you are the pillow." The bulldog who s headfirst in her bowl Every meal is THE BEST MEAL EVER. Cynthia L. Copeland has a gift for di ...Show more
Minimal New York City - Graphic, Gritty, and Witty by Michael Arndt
40.00 NZD
Category: Humour
Make your way from the Flatiron to Flatbush as an award-winning designer expertly captures New York City with minimalist art and unexpected wit. Minimal New York City playfully captures the essence of New York with clever pairs of sharp illustrations and cheeky commentary about the city. Historic conte ...Show more
The Essential Leunig by Michael Leunig
60.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: General Adult
Four hundred definitive cartoons spanning five decadesFrom the vast repertoire created by Michael Leunig since 1965 comes this inspired selection of his most universal and timeless pieces. Such is his prophetic insight that many of them are more relevant today – and funnier and more ironic – than when t ...Show more