Showing posts with label Lost and found - Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lost and found - Fiction. Show all posts

Friday, 26 August 2016

Grandpa's cat

Reformatted edition
On back cover: Not for individual sale
Summary: The family cat is missing and while Grandma insists that it will turn up, Grandpa is determined to find his precious moggy even if it means turning the house upside down

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Finding Monkey Moon

Summary: Michael and Monkey Moon are inseparable - especially when it's time for bed. But one night Monkey Moon is nowhere to be found and Michael's search for him goes way beyond the toy box

Friday, 1 April 2016

Squeak goes on a mystery adventure

Book Thirteen

When three little kittens came to stay at the Rescued Cats Centre, they were favourites with everyone. Squeak was the cutest kitten of all but she had one really bad habit. Squeak just wouldn’t listen.
Squeak’s story provides opportunities for parents and teachers to discuss two concepts with children – losing a pet and the importance of listening.
copied from http://rescuedcatsadventures.com/

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Snug

When Lisa was a baby, her dad brought home a kitten called Snug. They grew up together, best friends, but Snug's a tom cat and tom cats like their freedom. Can their friendship last? 

Thursday, 28 August 2014

Morgan goes to nowhere

New Zealand authors; New Zealand illustrators
Summary: Morgan couldn't find his favourite toy. He'd looked everywhere ... but it wasn't anywhere ... so it must be Nowhere

Friday, 8 August 2014

The lost girl

Summary: The girl had lost her way. She had wandered away from the mothers, the aunties and the grandmothers, from the fathers and the uncles and the grandfathers. Who will show her the way home

Friday, 25 July 2014

The frog who lost his underpants

New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
Summary: Will Froggy's new friends be able to find his lost underpants? A story in rhyme

Lily chases lost dreams

Summary: Lily wants to earn a Silver Star, but to receive it each of the first-year angels have to earn ten points through doing good deeds. In order to earn some good deed points, Lily offers to take the mischevious twins, Ella and Bella, to Angel Holly, but they make it very difficult. On the way to Angel Holly they are distracted by Melody playing the flute. Melody is supposed to deliver a box of dreams from the Dream Chamber to the Posting Station. Lily sees an opportunity to earn even more good deed points by delivering the dream box for Melody, but the dreams escape from the box, and it takes Lily, Ella and Bella a whole lot of effort to catch the slippery dreams and put them back into the box
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator

Friday, 4 July 2014

Tabby McTat

Early reader edition
Summary: Tabby McTat is a busker's cat and they sing happily together in the street all day long. But when Fred chases a thief and ends up in hospital, the two friends lose each other. Will they ever find each other again

Friday, 27 June 2014

Red Ted and the lost things

Summary: One day, a little bear named Red Ted is accidentally left on the seat of a train by his owner and ends up in the place for lost things. He doesn't despair, however - he puts his mind to work! With the help of his new friends, a pessimistic crocodile and a cat with a fondness for cheese, Ted finds his way home to the little girl who loves and misses him. In graphic novel format

Thursday, 12 June 2014

Iggy Wilder's Great Lost Dog Adventure

Graphic / Comic Strip

Dog lovers unite! Join Iggy Wilder on his search for his canine best friend, Fred. Seven-year-old Iggy Wilder loves dogs. In fact, he loves them so much he'd quite like to be one. So when Iggy's grandpa dies and his dog, Fred, is sent away, Iggy is desperate to get his four-pawed pal back...Packed with doggy facts and canine companionship, this is the heart-warming story of a young boy's search for his lost friend.

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Tabby McTat

Summary: Tabby McTat is a busker's cat and they sing happily together in the street all day long. But when Fred chases a thief and ends up in hospital, the two friends lose each other. Will they ever find each other again

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

A Crack in the Sky

Summary: Nine-year old Conor's day doesn't start well. His right arm seems to be missing, and he appears to have grown horns. Then his mum catches her skirt on a loose spring in the sofa. It's time to replace the sofa, 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
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted

Story Book and CD
Red Fox edition
Summary: Katie Morag is mightily put out when her new baby sister is born. She is so cross that she even kicks her trusty old one-eyed teddy bear into the sea in a fit of rage! But she soon starts to regret what she's done and misses dear old ted dreadfully. What will she do? Surely he is lost for ever... (Back cover)

Wednesday, 7 August 2013

The Cat Who Wanted to go Home

Suzy was a little striped cat. She lived in France with a fisherman who had four sons; Pierre was ten, Henri was eight, Paul was six and Gaby was four.
When they stood in a row they looked like a set of steps.

Gaby didn't know the proper way to stroke a cat. Most cats like being stroked from head to tail, the way the fur lies. But Gaby always stoked Suzy backwards from tail to heard and Suzy LOVED it.

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Sands of Blood

Edge. I, hero
Decide your own destiny
Summary: The Red Queen has seized the Ruby of Death and raised an army of the dead. Now, with her husband, the necromancer Mortha, they plan to find the remaining three rubies and cast a permanent shadow over the world. You are a former City Guard, a member of an elite unit of highly trained warriors. Your quest is to find the rubies before the Red Queen. First you must return to the City of Alba from where you were banished. (Publisher)

Thursday, 11 July 2013

The Piano Movers

New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator
Summary: When Mrs McGee's piano makes no sound, she calls in the piano movers to take it away, but moving this piano is no easy task. It is full of things: a brush, a comb, a small hair dryer, some nails, a hammer, some old picture wire. But the biggest and best suprise is at the bottom of the heap. An illustrated story in rhyme

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Beegu

A Red Fox Book
Summary: A small creature from space finds no welcome on Earth, until she meets a group of children on a playground. Suggested level: junior

Friday, 19 April 2013

Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale

Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny go on a trip to the local Laundromat. But their exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny has been left behind...
By combining expressive cartoon drawings with beautiful photographs of Brooklyn, New York, Mo Willems tells a brilliantly true to life tale about what happens when Daddy is in charge and things go terribly, hilariously, wrong.

Friday, 5 April 2013

Rabbit

Summary: Jack wants a dog for his birthday, but when he opens the box, instead of the puppy he is expecting, he finds a rabbit. His disappointment is extreme - until he discovers that this rabbit can talk. The rabbit becomes a good listener to Jack's troubles with a couple of school bullies and thinks up a way to help Jack pay them back. But it is hard to keep a talking rabbit a secret, and once Jack tells his friend Nick the secret is out and soon the rabbit is stolen. It is up to Jack and Nick to find him
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator