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This fantastic 36 page book tells the tale of Moko the dolphin. These are true events that took place on the East Coast of New Zealand. This book is packed with fascinating facts that will help your child learn about this highly intelligent marine mammal.

Heka and Reka (both weka) catch a double-decker to Tuapeka! The two weka friends catch Possum Pete’s double-decker bus on the road to Tuapeka … and along the way they pick up Hedgy Hog, Dodgy Dog and Whistling Frog. But when a strange little man in a caravan invites them to share his barbecue – they soon realise they are to BE the barbecue, and skedaddle … all the way to Tuapeka.

Tongariro is forced to battle three strong mountains, Taranaki, Tauhara and Putauaki, to keep his wife, Pihanga, safe from them. This is the story of how he successfully banishes them to the positions where they stand today. You can make the mountains using the outlines in the back of this book, and fight your own battle of the mountains!

Greedy Duck sticks his head where he shouldn't and gets stuck. Will a rat be able to solve Duck's problem? A shortened version retold in a board book.

Little Bug Blue has a wish. Little Bug Red has an appetite. Together they discover that getting what you always wanted is sometimes just the beginning.

A dinosaur follow-the-leader story! Follow Ruth Paul's colourful dinosaurs as they HOP, STOMP and ROAR their way through the pages of this beautifully illustrated book. On the outward journey the largest dinosaur leads, until they can go no further ...then on the way back, it's baby dinosaur who gets to lead the way!

The collaborative storybook was created by Telecom customers in association with award-winning Kiwi children's author Kyle Mewburn, illustrator Donovan Bixley and Scholastic New Zealand.
Bo the sheep dreams of being an acrobat, even though he’s afraid of heights. He also lives in a dreary country where circuses were forbidden. His friends offer to take him away to a land where circuses are allowed, but he decides to stay and start a circus in disguise, where extraordinary things happen in the most ordinary of places!

By the author of "A Kiwi Night Before Christmas", this charming New Zealand version of the much loved traditional story "Over in the Meadow" is brought to life by the vivid illustrations of Jenny Cooper.

Hill and Hole are best friends. Hill loves being a hill, but sometimes he wishes he could be a hole and feel the earth breathing beneath him. Hole loves being a hole but just once would love to see the sun rising. So they ask mole if he can help. Pretty soon Hill is a hole and Hole is a hill. But things aren't always what they seem and what at first seemed wonderful and new turns out not to be so great after all. Can Hill and Hole ever find an answer to their dilemma? First published September 2010.

Long ago when the world was new the kiwi lived in the treetops with the other birds and played and sung all day long. But when a plague of insects threatens to destroy the forest mighty Tane calls upon the birds to save the precious trees. Who of all the birds will answer Tane’s plea and what sacrifices will need to be made?

Who sank the boat? Was it the cow or the donkey or the sheep with her knitting? Surely it wasn't the tiny little mouse? This wonderfully illustrated book is designed for sharing aloud and will make children giggle as they guess which animal spoilt a day's rowing by sinking the boat.

Rewa's mum is worried about him, he seems unhappy, so she sends him to see a tohunga. Rewa is unhappy, and he has lots of wishes - but most of all, he wants to be a bird. The tohunga grants him his wish, and gives Rewa warning about being a bird for too long and forgetting how to be a human. Rewa flits as a piwakawaka, swoops as a kereru and dances through the air as a tui. Even the tohunga cannot bring him back to earth as Rewa flies higher and higher and...Rewa forgets how to be a human!A lovely story with a twist at the end, whe... read more

The story of a school camp, lost children and Molly the Morepork. Told in rhyme.

Old MacDonald has retired. Luckily, Young MacDonald has lots of modern machinery to help him on the family farm. Meet his tractor going broom-broom. And his digger, and quad bike, and tractor, and dump truck and hay baler and harvester. Young MacDonald is very busy indeed. But not too busy to arrange a wonderful family surprise. A delightful Kiwi twist on an old favourite, that perfectly captures rural New Zealand, and will appeal to children who love big trucks, diggers, tractors and things that go.

Olley visits The Treaty House at Waitangi and gets a huge surprise when the house itself begins to answer his untold questions, such as who its occupants have been and what happened when the Treaty was signed. Olley is given a visual journey of the history of one of New Zealand's most famous houses.

An adventure in relationship, Cork and the Bottle is the second tale in the Cork Voyages trilogy. Having met on a sandy beach at the end of Cork on the Ocean, the cork and the bottle head back out to sea together into a world of dancing jellyfish, surly sea lions, beautiful swallows and a mystical two-headed sea serpent. Told in rhythmic rhyme, with the same lovely colours and illustrative style as Cork on the Ocean, Cork and the Bottle is a whole new ocean-bound adventure that explores love, loss, friendship, loyalty and the joy o... read more

From blisters to blocked noses, Koro seems to have an unappetising remedy for everything. But could his enthusiasm for rongoa - Maori medicine - turn out to be contagious?

The story about Shrek

A reassuring tale about things that go bump in the night! It's night time and Phoebe needs to go to the toilet. As she ventures down the hall she thinks she is being followed by monsters. But is she?

It's night time and Phoebe needs to go to the toilet. As she ventures down the hall she thinks she is being followed by monsters. But is she?