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Kiwi Moon by Gavin Bishop
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Gavin Bishop?s poignant picturebook can be explored on many levels. A small white kiwi draws us in, the heavy tread of humans keeps us reading and then we gain a moon?s eye view of the sweep of history. Spanning the personal and the political, and appealing strongly to children and adults, Kiwi Moon is ...Show more
Koro by Gavin Bishop
$18.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo Maori
Koro is a warm and universal board book in te reo Māori about a day with grandad. Koro is a warm and universal board book in te reo Maori about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple Maori text. The child and their koro explore the d ...Show more
Matariki by Gavin Bishop
$16.00 NZD
Category: Board Books - children
This bilingual board book for young children shares the meaning behind each star in the Matariki cluster, created by award-winning author Gavin Bishop. An essential bilingual board book explaining the meaning of each Matariki star, with beautiful artwork by award-winning author Gavin Bishop. When the Ma ...Show more
Maui and the Goddess of Fire by Gavin Bishop
$15.95 NZD
$19.99 (20% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Maori folktale illustrated and written for children. Māui was always playing tricks on people. One night he played a particularly mischievous trick when he was sent to the house of the feared goddess of fire.
Nga Poaka e Toru by Gavin Bishop
$15.95 NZD
$19.50 (18% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
Maori Edition of "Three Little Pigs"
Patu: The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction: | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin BishopDiscover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bisho ...Show more
Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood (HB) by Gavin Bishop
$35.00 NZD
$36.00 (2% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children
This is a memoir of Gavin Bishop's idyllic childhood days, growing up in Kingston beside gorgeous Lake Wakatipu. It's a gentle tale of a boyhood spent haring around outside, building huts, eating griddle scones, catching eels, watching the train, eating roast mutton, going to school on a horse, arguing ...Show more
Pops by Gavin Bishop
$18.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
A day with grandad showing in simple, beautiful images the bond between grandfather and child: a small hand in a big one, big gumboots and little, some food, stories and a snooze to finish Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown t ...Show more
Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths by Gavin Bishop
$20.00 NZD
Category: Picture books - NZ
Written and illustrated by well-known children's writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop, Taming the Sun contains four stories - two well-known legends (Maui and the Sun and, Maui and the Big Fish) and two less well-known legends (Rona and the Moon and, Kahu the Taniwha). Aimed at children with reading ages ...Show more
The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Reading Level: 5+
"This is the dog, that worried the cat, that killed the rat, that ate the malt, that lay in the house that Jack built." A fresh and fascinating retelling, gloriously illustrated by Canterbury's Gavin Bishop, of a traditional rhyme set in New Zealand at the turn of the 19th century. First published 199 ...Show more
The Road to Ratenburg by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - junior | Reading Level: very good
A charming ratty fable about family, by a much-loved writer and illustrator pair. A family of rats is forced to leave their home, so sets out to find the fabled city of Ratenburg. Along the way they outwit vicious dogs, tricky rat traps and sharp-beaked hawks, and make some very dangerous crossings. The ...Show more