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My New Zealand Colours: Learn colours with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$20.00 NZD
Category: Board Books - children | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn colours - from red to rainbow! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators and ...Show more
Pandemic: Spanish Flu, 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
$18.50 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: My New Zealand Story
It is 1918, and World War I is finally drawing to an end. In the small Canterbury settlement of Southill Downs, 11-year-old Freda Rose looks forward to the return of her brother, Bobby, from the Western Front. But Freda doesn't know that something else is on its way to New Zealand from battle-scarred Eu ...Show more
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu 1918 (My New Zealand Story) by Sally Stone
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - middle | Series: My New Zealand Story
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, 'Closed'. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful stor ...Show more
Sabotage! The Diary of Rowan Webb, Auckland, 1985 (My New Zealand Story) by Sharon Holt
$18.50 NZD
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: My New Zealand Story
The Rainbow Warrior was the flag ship of the Greenpeace movement, when it was sunk by agents of the French Foreign Intelligence, while anchored in Auckland harbour, on the 10th of July 1985. In this story thirteen-year-old Rowan Webb gets herself a French penpal and unwittingly becomes involved in an ev ...Show more
Sitting on the Fence: The Diary of Martin Daly, Christchurch, 1981 (My New Zealand Story) by Bill Nagelkerke
$17.00 NZD
$18.00 (5% off)
Category: New Zealand titles - children | Series: My New Zealand Story
It is 1981 and Martin senses big trouble brewing at home. The South African rugby team has been invited to tour New Zealand. Martin's sister, Sarah, is out to stop the tour in protest against South Africa's racist apartheid system. His rugby-mad dad is equally determined that the tour should go ahead. A ...Show more
The Mine's Afire! The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (My New Zealand Story) by Susan Battye
$17.99 NZD
Category: Toy | Series: My New Zealand Story
This fictional diary records the tragedy, heroism and bitter aftermath of the worst industrial disaster in New Zealand's history - the Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896. The son of a coalminer from Lancashire who is working in the Brunner mine, Tommy is a typical boy living in the West Coast mining communit ...Show more