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Bits of String too Short to Use: A memoir of collecting, writing and the highs and lows of life by Jennifer Beck
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
The author looks at her life as a series of ‘bits’, memorable episodes which, when joined together form a pattern both fascinating and thought-provoking. From early life in an unusual rural community, she describes growing up in a large family with money troubles, limited educational opportunities, a lo ...Show more
Gypsy Day on the Farm (A Great Kiwi Read) by Jennifer Beck
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Moving house can be chaotic at the best of times but during Gypsy Week many farming families in New Zealand transport a herd of cows as well. For scores of farmers and sharemilkers around the country, June 1st has become known as Gypsy Day - when farms change ownership and families move entire house ...Show more
Ko Tōku Māmā te Kuini o te Rori by Jennifer Beck, Kawata Teepa (Translated by)
22.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
This book is the te reo Māori edition of My Mum is the Queen of the Road. Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen ...Show more
My Mum is Queen of the Road by Jennifer Beck
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Reading Level: near fine
Ari and Isabella play with trucks and diggers, making roads in a sandpit. Ari tells Isabella that his mother is a roadworker who works the Stop/Go sign and is called Queen of the Road. Isabella tries to work out why she is a queen – does she wear diamonds? Does she sit on a throne? Does she have a corgi ...Show more
Remember that November by Jennifer Beck
20.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
It’s almost Guy Fawkes Night, and at the school speech competition Andy talks about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. The children cheer excitedly, thinking Andy will win the contest. But then, Aroha gets up, wearing a white feather in her hair, and tells the story of another fifth of November - the in ...Show more
Sam Goes Wild by Jennifer Beck
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Great Kiwi Read
Sam has been ill and his appetite has disappeared. Uncle Nick comes up with a plan to get Sam's appetite back. He suggests his young nephew visit him in Hokitika, on the west coast of the South Island, but he doesn't let on that Sam's holiday will coincide with the famous Wildfoods Festival. Tourists fr ...Show more
The ANZAC Violin by Jennifer Beck
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
More than 20 years after publication of the classic NZ story, The Bantam and the Soldier, Jennifer Beck and Robyn Belton have joined forces again to produce another heartwarming story from the First World War. This time it's the true story of Otago's Alexander Aitken and the violin that travelled with h ...Show more
The Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: Bantam and the Soldier | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. It is wartime in Europe. A young soldier from 'a country on the other side of the world' rescues and brings back to health a little bantam, and in the midst of the fighting and devastation an unusual friendship is formed. Every morning the bant ...Show more
The Christmas Caravan by Jennifer Beck
18.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Simon and his mum live in a caravan. When Simon sees a competition in the newspaper for the best-decorated Christmas house, he is keen to enter it. His mother says she can't afford expensive lights and decorations, so Simon decides to decorate their caravan his own way. Ages 3+.
Torty and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Meet Torty! She's one tough little tortoise with a beat-up shell and some missing toes. Torty survived a great war that raged in Europe 100 years ago. Torty was rescued back then by a young Kiwi soldier. She is a World War One survivor.
Whetu the Little Blue Duck (HB) by Jennifer Beck
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The charming story of Whetu the endangered Blue Duck who saves a young woman lost in the bush who then in turn saves Whetu's habitat.
Whetu the Little Blue Duck Trilingual (English/Maori/Pinyin) by Jennifer Beck
19.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Despite facing many dangers, Whetū has survived. He even helps a stranger lost in the mountains. But when his habitat is threatened, who will help save him? This edition is published in English, Māori and Pinyin in partnership with the organisers of New Zealand Chinese Language Week, which this year is ...Show more
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