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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: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
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: Children
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: Children
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: Children | 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: Children
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: Children | 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 Bantam and the Soldier by Jennifer Beck
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children | 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
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children
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
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
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.
Torty and the Soldier: A Story of a True WWI Survivor (HB) by Jennifer Beck
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children
Whetu the Little Blue Duck Trilingual (English/Maori/Pinyin) by Jennifer Beck
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
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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