Rona Is Mischievous, Curious, Adventurous And Inventive – Just An Everyday Tomboy Nine-year-old! Living In The Country With Her Grandparents, She Pretends To Be A Werewolf (and Breaks Her Most Precious Possession In The Process), Jumps Off The Wharf Like A Daredevil, And Is Alternately Cross And Friends With Her Cousin Jessie – In Between Finding Ways To Ambush Stewart Simpson, Her Sworn Enemy.

Seven brothers all walk, talk, and look alike, but they all have unique magical abilities that they must use together to fool the evil emperor that wishes to harm one of them.

Hello! This is Koiwai Yotsuba, Yotsuba Koiwai…um, YOTSUBA! Yotsuba moved with Daddy to a new house from our old house waaaaaaay over there! And moving’s fun ‘cos people wave! (Ohhhh!!) And Yotsuba met these nice people next door and made friends to play with (one of ’em acted like one of those bad strangers Daddy told Yotsuba not to go with, but it was okay in the end). I hope we get to play a lot. And eat ice cream! And-and-and…oh yeah! You should come play with Yotsuba too!

Counting The Stars is a collection of four Maori stories for children, created by award-winning New Zealand children’s writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop.A sequel to Taming the Sun and Riding the Waves, this stunning book contains two well-known legends (Ranginui and Papatuanuku and Hinemoa and Tutanekai) and two less well-known legends (The battle of the birds and Kae and the whale).Aimed at children aged 3-10 years, Gavin allows the essence of the original myths to remain while also re-telling them for a new generation of children. Counting the Stars is simply written yet powerful, and full of bold, beautiful illustrations.

From the time of her birth, Kahu is destined to become the leader of her tribe in the East Coast village of Whangara. But her grandfather, Koro Apirana, is caught up with the problems facing the tribe. He refuses to accept that a girl could take over from him as chief. Then a pod of whales beach themselves at Whangara. Kahu has to act if she is to save them and her people.Witi Ikimaera lovingly retells his classic book The Whale Rider – a worldwide hit as a movie and novel – in this totally new, beautifully illustrated version for younger readers.

Winner of the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a much-loved book Faced with too short days and long nights Maui comes up with a plan to slow the sun’s passage through the sky. With the help of his brothers, Maui sets out for the home of the sun to catch it and make it move more slowly.

Dinaben is a Maldhari and her village is right in the middle of the Gir forest where the lions live. How does she live? What does she do? This book offers glimpses into the many aspects of life in the forest through simple text and photographs.

Like most rebellious children, the green frogs in this Korean folktale love to disobey their mother. What-ever she asks them to do, they do the opposite until their bad habit lands them in trouble.

As she travels from the city to her grandmother’s village, a young girl looks forward to her family’s celebration of Chu-Suk, the harvest moon festival.