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The Best Christmas Present in the World by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$17.95 NZD
$19.99 (10% off)
Category: Christmas Books
The Best Christmas Present in the World is a haunting and memorable Christmas story from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo. Echoes of Christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier's experience hauntingly ...Show more
The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo
$14.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: very good
ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. "All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will. I won't ever forget you." Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are insepar ...Show more
The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$9.99 NZD
$14.50 (31% off)
Category: Fiction - junior | Reading Level: 7-9
In a tiny village high in the mountains, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved and kept safe by the whole village, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear in the circus. A gentle and deeply moving story with great charm b ...Show more
The Fox And The Ghost King (HB) by Michael Morpurgo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. "Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just about, is a football fan... And we all have an impossible dream." In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football - all ...Show more
The Kingfisher Book of Classic Boy Stories by Michael Morpurgo
$24.95 NZD
Category: Short stories - children | Reading Level: very good
The best-loved young heroes in literature! The Kingfisher Book of Classic Boy Stories celebrates favourite boy characters in one brilliant book. Now available in paperback for the first time, this collection will appeal to a new generation of readers. The carefully chosen extracts offer the perfect intr ...Show more
The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$16.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
Robbie McLeod is on the run from the English Redcoats in the Highlands. On his travels he finds a wolf cub, near a sign proclaiming the killing of the last wolf in Scotland. Robbie adopts the orphaned cub and a friendship grows between them. But can they find a new freer life in America?
The Marble Crusher by Michael Morpurgo
$12.95 NZD
$17.99 (28% off)
Category: Fiction - junior | Reading Level: From 9 to 99
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The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo
$12.95 NZD
$15.99 (19% off)
Category: Fiction - junior | Reading Level: 9+
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle
Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Laura's twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems there's little hope, that is until the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks and everything changes.
This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E.
$18.99 NZD
Category: Picture books
At sunrise, young Michael spots a whale on the shores of the Thames and thinks he must be dreaming. But the creature is real and it has a message for him one that only an open-minded child can deliver to the rest of the world. The whale warns that the earths days are numbered and that humans must put ri ...Show more
Toro! Toro! by Michael Morpurgo
$13.00 NZD
$14.00 (7% off)
Category: Fiction - YA | Reading Level: very good
Toro! Toro! is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little black calf and they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls - the corrida and death. Later, when he learns of the ho ...Show more
Twist of Gold by Michael Morpurgo, M.B.E.
$14.95 NZD
$17.99 (16% off)
Category: Fiction - middle
A mother and her two surviving children, Sean and Annie, can no longer hold out against the terrible famine in Ireland. Near to death, the mother sends the children out to America, to track down their father who has gone in search of the fertile land of Grass Valley in California. They take with them a ...Show more