(Paperback)

In the art world the way materials come together to mean something is fascinating. This book by three painting conservators explores the backs of 33 paintings held in the collections of Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

(Hardback)

A sweet, funny picture book about overcoming stage fright, being brave, and embracing your talents.

(Paperback)

Old School Tie (aka Dirty Laundry), Inside Dope, and Guerilla Season are a trilogy of New Zealand-based comic crime thrillers.

(Hardback)

Internationally award-winning writer Heinz Janisch andcelebrated illustrator Wolf Erlbruch give you extremely short stories of a little king in a big world.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

A wordless picture book about a sloth who does absolutely nothing.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

A girl finds the end of a pencil line and her adventure begins...

(Paperback)

Matthew and Marama are playing in their back garden when they spot a hole in the hedge. Crawling through, they discover a tortoise with an epic story of soldiers, nurses, war, sacrifice, and kindness.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

The Wisdom of Dog features over 300 single, stand-alone cartoons, all with Dog as the main focus. The majority of these stand-alone cartoons have never before been published in book form.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The pilgrim poems in this collection persuade the other poems and the readers to join them on a quest for personal meaning. All the while there is the feeling that the movement forward is really towards the place where it all began.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Among the biggest and oldest trees in the New Zealand forest, the heart of Maori carving and culture, trailing no. 8 wire as fence posts on settler farms, clambered up in the Pureora protests of the 1980s: the story of New Zealand can be told through totara. Simpson tells that story like nobody else could.

(Paperback)

A funny full-colour graphic novel. Full of quirks, humour and ideas to discuss.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

In Untamed Coast, Bob Harvey not only describes the natural beauty of the Waitakeres, but also outlines the ancient Maori history, the more recent pioneering past, and profiles some of the area's main characters - adding many fascinating anecdotes and stories not found elsewhere.

(Paperback)

Explores appearance and disappearance as modes of memory, familial until we lose sight of that horizon line and must settle instead for a series of intersecting arcs. It is full of stories caught from the air and pictures made of words. It stands here and goes there, a real or an imagined place. If we can work out the navigation the rest will follow.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Richly illustrated, entertaining and highly educational, Whales | Tohor brings the fascinating underwater world of cetaceans to life with a special focus on the whales and dolphins of the South Pacific.

(Hardback)

A fresh and funny mix of story and non-fiction for inquisitive readers that covers the touchstones of childhood obsession: robots, knights, dinosaurs, rockets and more.

(Paperback)

Here's the answer to the question on everyone's lips - 'what's for dinner' - 80 terrific weeknight recipes from Nadia Lim and the My Food Bag team.

(Paperback)

The Pettson and Findus books have sold four million copies in 40 countries and been translated into over 20 languages, including Russian, Hindi, Faroese, Basque and Vietnamese.

(Paperback)

A funny journey alongside Henry as he looks for Grandma in hospital, where he finds conversation, quirks and human nature along every corridor