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The Children Who Smelled a Rat (The Gaskitt Stories) by Allan Ahlberg
17.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Early chapter book readers will chuckle their way through Allan Ahlberg's latest madcap tale about the resilient Gaskitts, in which Gus and Gloria take center stage. In this thrilling and amusing Gaskitts story, Mrs. Gaskitt finds a very peculiar package, Mr. Gaskitt loses a baby in a shopping cart, Ho ...Show more
The Cinderella Show (Mini HB) by Allan Ahlberg
25.00 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: Children Fiction
A delightful snapshot of the fondest of Christmas moments - the school play! Ages 3+.
The Goldilocks Variations by Allan Ahlberg
29.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
Everyone knows what happened when Goldilocks met the three bears. But when she encounters a whopping 33 bears, a strange-talking Blim, or even three little pigs on her search for porridge, the stories end a bit differently.
The Improbable Cat by Allan Ahlberg
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A seemingly harmless kitten limps into the Burrell family's garden, but as it grows bigger and bigger, the family are sucked into its service. Eventually David, the only person who is not in thrall to this huge black cat, breaks the spell, forcing its dramatic exit and fitting demise.
The Improbable Cat by Allan Ahlberg
12.95 NZD
14.95 (13% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 9 To 99
The story begins when a seemingly harmless kitten limps into the Burrell family's garden. The kitten gets bigger and bigger and soon the family, apart from the narrator David, are in thrall to the creature. They slowly descend into squalor and slothas they are sucked into the service of the enormous bla ...Show more
The Jolly Christmas Postman by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg (illustrator)
36.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: The Jolly Postman | Reading Level: 4-7
It's Christmas Eve and the Jolly Postman is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there's a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called 'Beware' for Red Riding Hood from Mr. Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalized Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, ...Show more
The Jolly Pocket Postman by Allan Ahlberg
37.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Janet Ahlberg & Allan Ahlberg | Reading Level: 5+
The third adventure for the Jolly Postman, complete with envelopes and letters big and very small! Once more the Jolly Postman rides - and flies - and shrinks! This brilliant book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is the third adventure for the Jolly Postman, originally published in 1995 and now back in prin ...Show more
The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
35.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Hip hip hooray, "The Jolly Postman" is 20 years old! Still as exciting to children as the day it first published, this international award winner and its two successors have sold more than 6 million copies around the world. This gorgeous anniversary edition has a free letter set keepsake containing 10 s ...Show more
The Little Cat Baby by Allan Ahlberg
19.95 NZD
22.95 (13% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Allan Ahlberg and Fritz Wegner have created exceptional books together for the last twenty years. The Little Cat Baby, their latest work, is a warm and charming fantasy, exquisitely illustrated in line and wash.
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
18.99 NZD
Category: Picture Books
The creators of THE RUNAWAY DINNER and PREVIOUSLY team up to imagine the comical world that comes to life when a lonely pencil starts to draw. "One day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat . . . and began to draw." Welcome back Banjo, the boy from THE RUNAWAY DINN ...Show more
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 5-8
From the acclaimed duo behind The Runaway Dinner and Previously comes a playful, witty story about the power of imagination. Welcome back Banjo, the boy from The Runaway Dinner! Once a pencil draws him, there's no telling what will come next - a dog, a cat, a chase (of course), and a paintbrush to colou ...Show more
The Runaway Dinner by Allan Ahlberg
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Talk about fast food. A hilarious, high-speed tale from the inimitable Allan Ahlberg. Catch it if you can... What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory sausage named Melvin, it's a plight that can only result in a b ...Show more