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Alex in Rome by Tessa Duder
16.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Alex is in Rome, for the Olympic Games. First published 1992.
Alex in Winter (Alex - Volume 2 ) by Tessa Duder
16.95 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
The second unforgettable novel in the multi-award-winning Alex series. Tragedy has entered Alex?s life, and during the long winter she tries to cope with grief and uncertainty about her future. But this time the battle is within herself ? and something only Alex can win. First published 1990.
Book of Pacific Lullabies by Duder, Tessa
29.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Multi-cultural children's sleepy-byes from Pacific region.
Down to the Sea Again: True stories for young New Zealanders by Tessa Duder (ed)
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Tessa Duder has edited two very successful collections of marine stories for adults, Salt Beneath the Skin and Seduced by the Sea, and has now produced a similar high quality collection of non-fiction for younger children, who also have a bit of saltwater in their veins.In this anthology of stories abou ...Show more
First Map: How James Cook Charted Aotearoa New Zealand by Tessa Duder and David Elliot
49.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
The story of how James Cook charted Aotearoa New Zealand, lavishly produced and richly illustrated. Since it was published by the Admiralty in 1816, James Cook's chart of New Zealand has long been regarded as one of the most extraordinary achievements in the history of cartography. First Map: How James ...Show more
In Search of Elisa Marchetti: A Writer's Search for Her Italian Family by Tessa Duder
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A chance meeting with a young Italian from Livorno set the scene for a journey of discovery from New Zealand to Livorno, a modern coastal port in Tuscany.
Is She Still Alive? by Tessa Duder
34.99 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Scintillating tales for women of a certain age. The wonderful, wise and witty women Tessa Duder has created will strike a chord with their tales of loves and dreams they have lived and lost, their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all, their enduring spirit and often unexpected strength. Is she s ...Show more
Jellybean by Tessa Duder
16.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
Jellybean tells the story of a lonely girl, Geraldine, nicknamed Jellybean, whose unconventional single mother is uncomfortably different from all her schoolmates' mothers - a professional musician who plays in the orchestra and a jazz band. So when a stranger comes into their life and Jellybean finds t ...Show more
Margaret Mahy - A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Margaret Mahy needs no introduction to anyone reading or working in the area of children?s literature over the past forty years.Twice winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, and twice short listed for the Hans Christian Anderson Award, amongst numerous other awards and achievements, she is universally ...Show more
Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life by Tessa Duder
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networ ...Show more