Download or read book Milly Maloo and the Miracle Glue written by Melanie Koster and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milly Maloo is in despair as she has a grand garden party to attend and no hat to wear. So she borrows a hat from her neighbour, Penelope Primm. It's very plain and doesn't suit Milly's flamboyant style, so with the help of some miracle glue a marvellous hat is produced. Unfortunately, when it comes time to return the hat, Milly can't remove the accessories that she added . . . which leads to a new and exciting friendship.
Download or read book Collecting Colour written by Kylie Dunstan and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Colour tells the story of a day spent collecting colour in the Top End of the Northern Territory, narrated by a white Australian girl, Rose. Rose s best friend Olive s mother, Karrang, makes beautiful coloured baskets, mats and bags from leaves from the pandanus palm a tall, thin tree with very long, spiky leaves. Rose and Olive spend a day out bush helping to gather the pandanus leaves and stringy bark for making into strong bags and baskets. They collect the colour that the bags will be bright yellows and pinks, from special plants and berries. It is a hard day s work for Rose, but the results are worth it. Collecting Colour, featuring stunning collage illustrations on Nepalese paper, is a feast for the senses and is also a fascinating insight into the way of life of fibre artists, who produce beautiful, original work in often difficult conditions. Ages: 3+ Price: $28.99 HB
Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Te Kotahitanga written by Russell Bishop and published by Nzcer Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how the educational experiences and achievement of Māori students in a number of mainstream secondary schools have been improved through a process of theory based, school-wide reform that began in Te Kotahitanga with the implementation of a culturally responsive pedagogy of relations in classrooms.
Download or read book The Mousehole Cat written by Antonia Barber and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Great Storm-Cat threatens the small English village of Mousehole, only an old fisherman's cat can soothe its fierceness during a dangerous sea venture.
Download or read book The Deliverance of Dancing Bears written by Elizabeth Stanley and published by Uwa Pub. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary fable about a dancing bear, whose dreams of freedom keep her spirit alive despite the pain and degradation of her existence.
Download or read book Making Picture Books written by Libby Gleeson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to creating picture storybooks. Written in two parts - writing the story and illustrating the story. Part one looks at where to get ideas, getting started, intentions, plot, structure, language, characters, letting go of the story, and other ways of working. Part two looks at accepting the manuscript, content, medium, line, colour, composition, finished artwork, and production. Includes illustrations, index of books, and index of writers and illustrators. Author's own picture storybooks include 'The Great Bear' and 'Shutting the Chooks In'.
Download or read book Tiny Miss Dott and Her Dotty Umbrella written by Michelle Osment and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Dott takes her umbrella (in case it rains) and leaves it outside the charity shop where she works. One of the customers, having just bought a new shirt that he doesn't want to get wet, borrows the umbrella (with the intention of bringing it back shortly), and leaves it outside the music shop. A girl leaving the shop spies the umbrella and borrows it with the promise that she'll be back in an hour, and off she goes to the hairdressers ... And so it goes on until we have gone full circle and the umbrella ends up back outside the charity shop by the time Miss Dott is ready to leave for home-and discovers that it's not raining and she needn't have brought it at all!
Download or read book Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street written by Patricia Grace and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual tuna with a magic throat leaps out of his stream and visits a number of children in Champion Street. To each he gives an article of clothing for dancing, or a musical instrument. The children are all from different ethnic communities living in New Zealand. On Champion Street the children all come together and dance all day and all night. Age 4+ 32 pages
Download or read book Hester s Blister written by Chris Gurney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hester asks everyone to help her find a remedy for the pesky blister on her tongue, but her journey has an unexpected result. Suggested level: junior.
Download or read book A Crack in the Sky written by Kyle Mewburn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is a sofa not a sofa? When it is the entry to another world . . . Nine-year-old Conor's day doesn't start well. His right arm seems to be missing! Then he appears to have grown horns. But it's the next event that proves fateful. His mum catches her skirt on a loose spring in the sofa. It's time to replace the sofa . . . obviously. But money is tight. So when Conor sees an old sofa bobbing in the tide as he walks to school, about to strand itself on the muddy shore, it seems like fate is working in his favour. But there's something very strange about this particular sofa . . .
Download or read book Do Not Push written by Kyle Mewburn and published by Scholastic New Zealand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Always obey the rules" Cam's mum tells him but when he finds a big red button in the forest marked "DO NOT PUSH", he pushes with all his might. The consequences are that his mum, dad, teachers, in fact everyone is behaving as if there are no rules to obey. After a frightening day Cam is only too happy to go back to the forest and pull the green lever that says "PLEASE PULL". Will this make everything go back to normal? To be on the safe side he only pulls the lever half the way so he gets the best of both worlds. Suggested level: primary.
Download or read book The Book of Dave written by Will Self and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, The Book of Dave is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are. At once a meditation upon the nature of received religion, a love story, a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future - this compulsive novel will be enjoyed by readers everywhere, including fans of Martin Amis and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. 'Vivid, visceral and breathtakingly ambitious, this is Self's best yet' GQ 'Mindboggling ... darkly hilarious ... A fascinating book' Evening Standard Will Self is the author of nine novels including Cock and Bull; My Idea of Fun; Great Apes; How the Dead Live; Dorian, an Imitation; The Book of Dave; The Butt; Walking to Hollywood and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction and three novellas: The Quantity Theory of Insanity; Grey Area; License to Hug; The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys; Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe and Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works, including The Undivided Self: Selected Stories; Junk Mail; Perfidious Man; Sore Sites; Feeding Frenzy; Psychogeography; Psycho Too and The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.
Download or read book The Were nana written by Melinda Szymanik and published by Ashton Scholastic. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon loves to scare Stella Rosa, especially with scary stories. Most of the time Stella Rosa can cope but Stella's grandmother Nana Lupin is coming to visit from a far-away country and Simon whispers that Nana Lupin is a Were-Nana ...and Stella Rosa believes him. The darkly robed figure that comes through the arrival gate at the airport does look like a Were-Nana, after all ...
Download or read book New Zealand Children s Books in Print written by Crissi Blair and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated catalogue of books for children from birth to secondary school by New Zealander writers and illustrators. Includes five indexes - by title, author, illustrator, translator and photographer. Full information on New Zealand awards for children's books and publisher information. Recommended for libraries, schools, booksellers, authors, illustrators, designers and others interested in children's literature.
Download or read book The Wheels on the Bus written by Donovan Bixley and published by a Moa book. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An adaptation of the traditional children's song, but this time the bus is off around New Zealand with native animal passengers: kiwi, penguin, tuatara, fantail and many more"--Publisher information.
Download or read book Dudley the Dinosaur written by Uncle Amon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Short Stories, Funny Jokes, Games, and More! Are you looking for a kid's or children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with bedtime stories, jokes, games, and more? This children's storybook has it all! Dudley is a very friendly dinosaur, but he is a Tyrannosaurus Rex. All the other dinosaurs are afraid of him. Can Dudley convince the other dinosaurs that he is friendly? Follow the adventures of Dudley the dinosaur. This is an excellent read for beginning and early readers. Each story is easy to read and exciting with cute and bright illustrations for younger readers. This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and read aloud at home. Fun games and puzzles included Excellent for beginning and early readers Cute short stories that are great for a quick bedtime story Funny and hilarious jokes & illustrations for kids This story is great for a quick bedtime story and to be read aloud with friends and family. Story List & Activities: Enter Dudley Fly Away Home Faster Than A Speeding Turtle! But Just Barely Dino-Dentistry Bad Decisions Funny Dinosaur Jokes Games and Puzzles Game and Puzzle Solutions Scroll up and click 'buy' and spend some quality time with your child!
