Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
60.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales: Retold by Naomi Lewis by Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (retold)
35.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrated fairy tales. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Brothers Grimm
37.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales. A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of some of the world's most beloved stories. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and f ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
The Denniston Rose (Popular Penguin) by Jenny Pattrick
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the 1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty co ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
The Whale Rider (Popular Penguin) by Witi Ihimaera
16.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as chief of the Maori in Whangara, New Zealand—a tribe that claims descent from the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now t ...Show more
The Fellowship of the Ring (Special unjacketed hardback edition) by J R R Tolkien
40.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Lord of the Rings Ser.
THE FIRST PART OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S EPIC MASTERPIECE, THE LORD OF THE RINGSIn a quiet village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins is about to receive a gift that will change his life forever.Thought lost centuries ago, it is the One Ring, an object of terrifying power once used by the Dark Lord to enslave ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick' When a tornado crashes through Kansas City, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked far away, over the rainbow, to a strange land called Oz. How will they ever get home? And what is at the end of the yellow brick road? Plucky Dorothy and Toto em ...Show more