Aesop's Fables

Aesop

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a...

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The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia (#2)

Eirlys Hunter

In this follow-up to the internationally successful The Mapmakers' Race, the Santander children are drawn into a community’s rebellion against a despot and use their mapping skills to avert an environmental scam. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous ...

Demonising a Good Doctor: A Medical Scandal that Wasn't

Helen Overton

  Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a jud...

Dogs with Stories: Capturing New Zealanders with their Four-Legged Best Friends

Mardo El-Noor

Dogs With Stories is Mardo El-Noor’s desperate call for attention, camouflaged as a vanity project and disguised in a book of pictures and text. Featuring about a hundred good dogs and a hundred dog owners, the book contains a series of hyperrealistic staged scenes, set in the real homes and workplaces ...

The Tree and the River

Aaron Becker

A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form. For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civil...