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Aunt Concertina & Her Niece Evalina
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| NZ$ 35.00 each |
| Hardback |
| Author: Paula Green (Illustrated by Michael Hight) |
| Published by: Random House New Zealand Ltd |
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Aunt Concertina & Her Niece Evalina is a wondrous book - a feast of words by well-known poet Paula Green accompanied by a visual feast of stunning paintings.
Aunt Concertina is an avid junk shop shopper who takes her unwilling niece along with her and, to Evalina's great delight, they find a magic kite which takes them on adventures throughout the world. They go to Mt Everest, the Nile, a volcano, Greenland, the Sahara, Venezeula, Tokyo, the Amazon and finally back home. It's a whirlwind of exploration. On every page there is so much to find in every exquisitely detailed illustration, and the language is rich in the kind of detail that children will love.
Storylines Notable Picture Book 2010.
First published 2009.
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Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story
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| NZ$ 20.00 each |
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| Author: Kate De Goldi and Jacqui Colley |
| Published by: trapeze |
| In Stock: 1 |
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At Lorenza (Lolly) Leopold's school every March the club's epidemic breaks out "like a giant nit plague... everyone's infected. Not me. I must be inoculated".
With the Barbie Club, Lego Club, Kitten Club and Harry Potter Club all having their own weird rules, what would a cynical girl do in protest at their silliness but form the Grass Growing Spectators' Club (membership 3).
An eclectic cast of characters - a seriously cool teacher, Ms Love (a trumpet-playing bogan with a tuatara tattoo), and obese family cat, Laughing Stock, and Lolly's friends Noryb and Eleda (backward spelling is a club rule) - feature in this wryly observed and visually slick picture book for readers aged 6 to 12.
De Goldi is an acclaimed author, critic and scholar of children's literature, and the marriage of her zingy text and Jacqui Colley's funky, colourful art establishes Clubs as a unique genre in New Zealand publishing.
Pure brilliance.
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Down the Back of the Chair
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| Author: Margaret Mahy Illustrated by Polly Dunbar |
| Published by: Walker Books |
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When Dad loses his car keys, toddler Mary suspects that they have ended up down the back of the chair, so Dad begins to search. But, what an odd assortments of objects are living down the back of the chair!
This lively, eccentric verse story is a visual explosion of fun and imagination, featuring dragons, pirates, treasure, lions, elephants and many more. But, what will a troubled father win from down the back of the chair, and will it be enought to save the family from rack and ruin?
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