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Margaret Mahy
Author
Publisher
M.K. McElderry
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Years nothing is the same again.
Author
Language
English
Description
The kitten has climbed the Christmas tree! Climbed so high and climbed so far to cling with her claws to the Christmas star. So begins the magically illustrated story of the - Christmas Tree Tangle - in which the kitten, the cat, the dog, the goat and even the pigs get stuck in the branches of the town Christmas tree. This is a delightful tale to read along with Children at the festive season.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A hilarious, lively picture book. Mister Whistler always has a song in his head and a dance in his legs. But when he has to catch the train, he is so distracted he loses his ticket—and has to dance his way out of his clothes to find it. The author, Margaret Mahy, received the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006.
Author
Language
English
Description
Norvin is a very good actor, but rather plain.
Norvin looks very like a shark, and more than anything, he loves to shoot through the water like a silver arrow. But his cunning plan to clear the water at Caramel Cove badly misfires.
Margaret Mahy (1936-2012) worked as a librarian in her native New Zealand before becoming a full-time writer in 1980. Beloved by generations of readers, she wrote over 150 books for children and young adults, and in...
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Curious George rides a bike: The man in the yellow hat gives Curious George a brand new bicycle. What adventures are ahead for this little monkey and his new bike?
The great white man-eating shark : a cautionary tale: Norvin, a boy who closely resembles a shark, uses his talents to scare away all the swimmers at Caramel Cove, except for one female shark in love.
Flossie & the fox: Flossie meets up with a clever fox who has been making trouble around...
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Giggle, giggle, quack: Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, but Duck has changed the care instructions for the animals. The most wonderful egg in the world: Several animals have very beautiful features, but whoever lays the most wonderful egg will be crowned princess. Wings : a tale of two chickens: Winnie unknowingly goes for a balloon ride with a sly fox. Can Winnie's sensible friend Harriet rescue Winnie before she...
Author
Series
Kingfisher treasury volume 20
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A collection of traditional and modern tales by such authors as Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Ransome, and Charles Perrault.
Author
Language
English
Description
A delightful cookbook-cum-memoir that explores, decade by decade and era by era, what New Zealanders eat and how that food defined a country. "The preparation of food, the smells and tastes and textures, have accompanied me throughout the journeys of my life. In fact, looking back the food memories have become the marker posts-defining boundaries in the years, demarcating the challenges and the changes. In times of joy, food has enhanced the celebration;...