Category: Children - Reference
A spectacular illustrated picture book exploring New Zealand's unique landscapes and its incredible wildlife by the award-winning author of Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story. Long before waka touched Aotearoa's shores, the land of the long white cloud was home to an array of creatures uniquely adapted to ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Series: Explore and Discover
At the Beach is a delightful introduction to the natural history of the New Zealand seashore. The stage is set with beautiful, factually correct illustrations (including detailed cross-sections) of three familiar habitats - the sandy beach, rockpools and mudflats. Many of the plants and animals that pla ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their diffe ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Series: Explore & Discover
In the Garden introduces young children to common creatures they can find in a New Zealand garden. It is the only guide available for young children and families that shows creatures in their natural habitats. The book describes their relationship with other living things, and includes many interesting ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
This beautiful large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with the gorgeous images from Historium. This is a stunning celebration of the history of the world.A collection of full colour, immaculately detailed images from unparalleled new talent, Richard Wilkinson.Posters offer an exploration ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Series: So You Think You Know About... Dinosaurs?
Ben Garrod's So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs? is fun, funny and informative. This highly collectible, pocket size series is the most up-to-date in 66 million years, featuring Tyrannosaurus Rex, Diplodocus, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus and Spinosaurus. Did you know that not all dinosaurs ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
The incredible story of Tupaia, Tahitian priest navigator, who sailed on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook on his first voyage to Aotearoa. Follow Tupaia as he grows up in Ra'iatea, becoming a high-ranking 'arioi and master navigator. Join him as he meets up with Cook in Tahiti and sails as part of ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
Over a thousand years ago, the wind, sea currents and stars brought people to the islands that became known as Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. Navigate your way through this sumptuously illustrated story of New Zealand. Explore the defining moments of our history, captured by celebrated chil ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
The Super-Intelligent, High-tech Robot Book sits alongside the new blockbuster Science Museum Robots exhibition, and because it is being written by the Science Museum it contains all the very latest robot information communicated in an accessible humorous way. Opening in February 2017, the exhibition wi ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference | Series: Glow in the Dark
Lightning Rainbows Auroras Discover Earth's most amazing natural phenomena in this adventure around the globe, including a glow-in-the-dark poster. ? Follow two intrepid explorers as they witness the Northern Lights, marvel in wonder at glow worm caves, go hunting for double rainbows, and dodge volcan ...Show more
Category: Children - Reference
History as you've never seen it before, walk through the past and find out what happened whenStep into What Happened When in the World, a unique historical atlas for kids and discover the global events that shaped our world. Watch the key moments in our history unravel on the page in front of you throug ...Show more
