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
Other Title: How the camel got his hump
Summary: This graphic retelling of one of Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories relates how a djinn punished the camel's laziness by giving him a hump
Graphic Novel
Based on a tale from the Arabian nights
Arabian nights
The legendary tale of Aladdin, a poor youth living in the city of Al Kal'as. One day, the crafty boy outsmarts an evil sorcerer, getting his hand on a magical lamp that houses a wish-fulfilling genie! Soon, all of Aladdin's dreams come true, and he finds himself married to a beautiful princess. All is well until, one day, the evil sorcerer returns to reclaim the lamp.
Graphic Novel
Other Title: Gulliver's travels
Stone Arch classic fiction
Summary: Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never could have imagined the places his travels would take him. His adventures could be the greatest tales ever told, if he survives to tell them
Graphic Novel
Other Title: How the elephant got his trunk
Summary: A graphic retelling of one of Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories about a curious young elephant and how he got his trunk
Graphic Novel
Other Title: 20,000 leagues under the sea
Other Title: Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Stone Arch classic fiction
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from Ned Land, the world's greatest harpooner, the men soon discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine. To keep this secret from being revealed, the sub's leader, Captain Nemo, takes the mend hostage. Now, each man must decide whether to trust Nemo or try to escape his underwater world.
Graphic Novel
Other Title: Time machine
Summary: Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' story in which a scientist invents a machine that carries him into the future. While there, he meets a race of gentle humans and evil underground creatures. Even worse, his time machine, his only chance to escape, is trapped deep inside the Morlock caverns
Graphic Novel
Based on a tale from the Arabian nights
Arabian nights
The tale of Sinbad the Sailor, who goes to sea in search of great riches and discovers even greater adventures. On his seven treacherous voyages, the Persian explorer braves a shipwreck, fights off savage cannibals, and battles a giant Cyclops, hoping to survive and tell his legendary story.
Graphic Novel
Other Title: How the rhinoceros got his skin
Summary: A graphic retelling of one of Rudyard Kipling's Just so stories about how the rhinoceros's lack of manners resulted in his baggy skin and bad temper
Graphic Novel
First U.S. edition
Published in the UK as: A first book of nature
Contents: Spring -- Water -- Bulbs -- Listen to the pond -- Catkin song -- Dandelions -- Migration -- Gull flight -- Lambs' tails -- Nesting -- Cherry blossoms -- Rainbows -- Planting seeds -- Making compost -- Summer -- Summer song -- Flowers -- Honey -- Baby birds -- Making hay -- Milking -- Caterpillars, butterflies -- Pond dipping -- Tide pooling -- Shell song -- Tide -- Lizard -- Night -- Five reasons to keep chickens -- Moth -- Growing -- Dens -- Autumn -- Wind -- Leaves -- Geese -- Spiderlings -- Feather -- Acorn -- Worms -- Apples -- Squirrel -- Fungi -- The loaf that Jack baked -- Harvest -- Berry picking -- Winter -- Winter trees -- Starlings -- The horse -- Snow song -- Patchwork pigeons -- Deer in the dawn -- Just ducks -- The stars show -- Beachcombing -- Seed saving -- A bird feast
Summary: This gorgeously illustrated volume - part poetry, part recipes, facts and fragments - sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder. The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child's interactions with nature, from planting acorns or biting into crisp apples to studying tide pools or lying back and watching the birds overhead. No matter what's outside their windows - city streets or country meadows - children will be inspired to explore the world around them
First book of nature
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
