Embark on an exciting journey with Kuwi & Friends I Spy: Kiwi Road Trip Games, where tamariki can count, spot, and learn in both English and Māori. This educational and entertaining adventure is packed with ‘I Spy with My Little Eye’ activities, offering hours of engaging fun. With look-and-find exercises, this series not only captivates children but also aids in language development. A portion from each purchase is donated to the ‘Save the Kiwi’ charity.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 60

Dimensions: 200 x 160 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2024

Introduce your young creatives, aged 3+, to the joy of mess-free painting with Kuwi & Friends - Magic Water Cards. Designed for budding creatives, this compact activity set is bursting with fun. Simply fill the magic brush with water and watch as it unveils hidden pictures featuring scenes from the Kuwi the Kiwi books on the illustration boards. They can also engage in counting and ‘i spy’ activities on the back of each card. Once dry, the scenes disappear, allowing for endless painting fun! Crafted with care, our premium activity sets are tailor- made for mess-free, on-the-go play, making them perfect companions for travel, at cafes, or at home. Includes hard cover folder, 6 thick magic water cards and refillable water brush pen.

Bind: stationery

Pages: 6

Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2024

Introduce your young creatives, aged 3+, to the joy of mess-free painting with Kuwi & Friends - Magic Water Cards. Designed for budding creatives, this compact activity set is bursting with fun. Simply fill the magic brush with water and watch as it unveils hidden pictures featuring scenes from the Kuwi the Kiwi books on the illustration boards. They can also engage in counting and ‘i spy’ activities on the back of each card. Once dry, the scenes disappear, allowing for endless painting fun! Crafted with care, our premium activity sets are tailor- made for mess-free, on-the-go play, making them perfect companions for travel, at cafes, or at home. Includes hard cover folder, 6 thick magic water cards and refillable water brush pen.

Bind: stationery

Pages: 6

Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2024

Introduce your young creatives, aged 3+, to the joy of mess-free painting with Kuwi & Friends - Magic Water Cards. Designed for budding creatives, this compact activity set is bursting with fun. Simply fill the magic brush with water and watch as it unveils hidden pictures featuring scenes from the Kuwi the Kiwi books on the illustration boards. They can also engage in counting and ‘i spy’ activities on the back of each card. Once dry, the scenes disappear, allowing for endless painting fun! Crafted with care, our premium activity sets are tailor- made for mess-free, on-the-go play, making them perfect companions for travel, at cafes, or at home. Includes hard cover folder, 6 thick magic water cards and refillable water brush pen.

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Pages: 6

Dimensions: 297 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 01-06-2024

The Otautahi Christchurch of today is made up of numerous suburbs, each with its own characteristics, surrounded and built in an area of astonishing natural beauty. In 2010 and 2011 the city was hit by a series of devastating earthquakes. Neighborhoods were destroyed or damaged beyond repair, and the impact on the social and built fabric of the city was almost overwhelming. Much has been written about the resilience and determination of Otautahi Christchurch's people following these devastating earthquakes, and the care and kindness shown by fellow Aotearoa New Zealand citizens and the many who cam to help from all corners of the world. This book focuses on a small part of the wider story of the city's new beginning. It shows how an individual project - the building of a new convention centre - brought people, cultures, architects, designers and artists together to create a building that represents a new, shared, vision of togetherness. It is an optimistic and hopeful vision for the future. The architects, designers and artists of Te Pae committed to creating a building firmly placed in Otautahi Christchurch - a building that aligns with who and what the people here are, rather than a mirror image of another society.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 168

Dimensions: 245 x 305 mm

Publication Date: 01-12-2023

The Baby Boomers: the first generation to unite globally with music, culture and action to challenge the personal and political power of those in authority. Growing up in a post-war world but living with the daily shadow of the Cold War and the growing horror of the Vietnam War, the Baby Boomers protested. They were loud. They were visible. They weren’t going to take it anymore. And they made a difference. So what happened to all that juice and energy, that passion to change the world for the better that marked many of those who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies? Were they just a bunch of hippies after all? Activist, creative entrepreneur and counsellor Robin Woodsford is a Baby Boomer and in this moving reflection on his life and times he discovers that his personal story is also a universal one. More, he says the job’s not done yet and calls on fellow Baby Boomers to remember their passionate youth, to dust off their placards and to join their grandchildren on the front line as the world faces the new monster at the door – climate change. Baby Boomers: it’s time to make your legacy count.

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Pages: 152

Dimensions: 152 x 229 mm

Publication Date: 22-05-2024

Every four years the NZ Military History Committee runs a conference and publishes the best papers from it about New Zealand’s varied and fascinating military history. This book brings together the latest thinking on aspects of New Zealand’s Second World War from perspectives as wide as Germany, Canada, Britain and Australia and on subjects covering combat, forces, personalities, attitudes and after-effects. This book includes essays from some of the most renowned New Zealand and international historians, including Jonathan Fennell, Chris Pugsley, Peter Lieb, Robert Engen, Claire Cookson-Hills, and John Crawford. See following page for more details.

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Pages: 486

Dimensions: 235 x 260 mm

Publication Date: 30-03-2024

Histories of Pakeha settlement in New Zealand have often ignored the role of women, or devalued their contribution to mere adjuncts to the work of men. In Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns historian Robert Peden argues that not only were women present from the very beginnings of settlement, they were also industrious partners with their menfolk in farming and other enterprises. Despite the Victorian ideal of women as primarily domestic helpmates to their husbands, many women succeeded on the farm and in the wider world. Many settlers on New Zealand’s rural frontier lived in extreme isolation, far from friends, family and support. In times of crisis, such as childbirth or severe illness, their resourcefulness was sorely tried. Many developed a healthy self-reliance to manage this acute deprivation, some were broken by it. Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns presents the stories of women living on the rural frontier in the first two or three Pakeha generations. Through their diaries, letters and other sources the author relates the vivid stories of women who toiled long and hard, shoulder to shoulder with their men, even as they cared for their families.

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Pages: 236

Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm

Publication Date: 04-04-2024

In 1920, when Lasting Impressions, the first volume in this history of New Zealand newspapers ended, the large number of newspapers in the country were the profitable, well-respected vehicles of nearly all the news from around the world and around the corner welcomed into households in the largest cities and smallest hamlets. Newspapers were also the principal means by which manufacturers and merchants sold their products and services to people. This strange amalgam – provision of a public service in an essentially commercial operation – worked, for the most part, very successfully. All that changed over the next 80 years. There were ownership changes to what had been, both large and small, mainly family businesses. Radio, television and the Internet severely disrupted the press’s virtual monopoly of the news. The commercial model that allowed newspapers to function successfully was severely disrupted. Foreign owners, without the same commitment to New Zealand society, entered and began to dominate the local market. By 2000, the New Zealand newspaper market had changed forever – and in ways that put its very survival at risk. Pressing On is the story of how and why this happened.

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Pages: 680

Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm

Publication Date: 16-04-2024

New Zealand Railways At Night seeks to redress a void in our written history, covering the night railway as experienced in the period from the mid-1920s through to 1982 when the Government railway was corporatised, a period when many New Zealanders’ chose the railway as their principal form of transport. This was a time when most of the night travel was endured sitting upright on firm non-reclinable seats. Refreshment room stops caused a minor disruption in the darkened carriage as some travellers unable to sleep sought comfort in food, or simply stretched their legs on the platform, while others more fortunate slumbered on… It is occasions like that which images in the book evoke memories of. Converse to the night railway view by the travelling public, featured also is the night railway endured by the railway shift worker, exposing a life at work after dark. Images “in the dark” create a sense of mystique, as it is sometimes not just what is highlighted in the images, but equally what lurks in the darkened background. Considered by many as an “art book”, with 239 photographs, the majority presented full-size, this book is a visual treat.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 285 x 215 mm

Publication Date: 13-05-2024