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These two short, easy to read, adventure stories featuring a kuia and tohunga grandmother called Nana and her two shapeshifting grand children Pipi and Pou are the latest in this series.

They are the next stage up from bilingual Maori/English picture books with Maori terms and vocabulary sprinkled throughout and a comprehensive glossary in the back of each book.<...


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All children know what being grumpy is so there is an immediate connection with this superbly written and illustrated picture book.

The old gnome has good reason to be grumpy. His neighbour’s the ducks have driven him out of his mind with their endless quacking but they have a story to tell that is going to make him grumpier. The humans who now occupy the farm that ...


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This true story is moving and inspiring as 7 year old Emilie Bruce gives her account of the 138 day walk along the Te Araroa walkway from Cape Reinga in the North Island to Bluff in the South Island.

Te Araroa means the long pathway and it is 300km and is only for the fit and the keen. Emilie is both and she luckily has a mother who can take her all the way.

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This easy to read novel is part 2 of a series that looks at the type of world that may exist after global warming and climate change have taken place here in New Zealand. My review is at this site – https://bobsbooksnz.wordpress.com/?s=Edge+of+light

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Caterina is a young girl who works in the kitchen near Leonardo da Vinci’s studio in the Vatican City and rumour has it that Leonardo has a dragon that she is determined to see.

Giovanni is servant who works for Leonardo and will neither confirm or deny the existence of a dragon but he tells Caterina that ” only one person could bring a dragon into the Vatican C...


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