Fires! by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
This collection of ten riveting, true stories recounts the most dramatic blazes in human history. As you read these stories, stop to imagine the blinding flames, the choking smoke and the waves of heat that brought humans face-to-face with one of the world's mightiest natural forces.
Mao's Last Dancer (Young Readers' Edition) by Li Cunxin
26.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
The phenomenal international bestsellerBefore you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that ...Show more
What a Joke! Collection by PHILLIP ADAMS
25.00 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Bursting with snorts and giggles and hoots of laughter. This book contains every joke from What a Joke!, What a Giggle! Ages 8+. (SA: Year 3 - Year 5).
Escapes by Laura Scandiffio
17.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: From 10
Imprint. Ten of the most exhilarating escape stories from around the world and across the ages. Perilous prison breaks, desperate retreats from hostile countries, and royal slips from besieged castles. Ages 11+.
Tunnels by Diane Swanson
17.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: From 10
Ten gripping tunnel stories from around the world. Stories of surviving a mining disaster, uncovering ancient treasure, smuggling people to freedom and building tunnels deep beneath the sea. Ages 11+.
Doe / n. a deer : Animal Families by PENGUIN
24.00 NZD
25.00 (4% off)
Category: Children Non Fiction
Did you know that a baby echidna is called a puggle? Or that 'reynard' is the name for a male fox? And do you know which animal can be a jack or a shredder, depending on its sex? Inside this book you'll find the entertaining (and sometimes bizarre) names for the males, females and offspring of more t ...Show more
Animal Heroes by Anthony Hill
19.95 NZD
25.00 (20% off)
Category: Children Non Fiction
Here are twenty-one fascinating stories about the forgotten heroes of war: animals who have served beside Australian forces. These are all animals that dazzle with their courage and loyalty - or sometimes just by being lovable. Whether it's a rooster guarding his battalion during the First World War or ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles by Alan Marshall
22.99 NZD
24.00 (4% off)
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
Alan Marshall's classic account of his childhood spent on crutches after contracting polio at the age of six is funny, tough, moving, profoundly Australian, yet completely universal - and inspirational in the best sense.
The Gallipoli Story by Patrick Carlyon
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Children Non Fiction | Reading Level: From 12 To 99
A gripping account of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of the First World War, and the experiences of the young Australian's soldiers who went there. Ages 11+
Marie Curie by Kathleen Krull
11.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but twoain physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
Sigmund Freud by Kathleen Krull
11.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Giants of Science
Kathleen Krull proves Sigmund Freud deserves a place in her much-lauded series, because he essentially created a brand-new branch of medicine: psychoanalysis.
The True Story of Peter Rabbit by Jane Johnson
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Young Noel loves the visits from family friend Beatrix Potter. She always brings something wonderfulafrom toys and gifts to real mice and rabbits that the children can play with. But then Miss Potter goes away, and Noel falls ill. He lies in bed all summer, too sick to do anything. Until a fat envelope ...Show more