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Look: A Tummy Time Book by Gavin Bishop
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A wordless concertina board book of big, bright faces to place around the baby on the floor at tummy time--family faces on one side and toys on the other--by award-winning author/illustrator Gavin Bishop. This safe and sturdy fold-out book is a perfect gift, with compelling illustrations of the things b ...Show more
Matariki by Gavin Bishop
15.99 NZD
Category: Baby & Toddler Board Books
This bilingual board book for young children shares the meaning behind each star in the Matariki cluster, created by award-winning author Gavin Bishop. An essential bilingual board book explaining the meaning of each Matariki star, with beautiful artwork by award-winning author Gavin Bishop. When the Ma ...Show more
Maui and the Goddess of Fire by Gavin Bishop
19.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
Maori folktale illustrated and written for children. Māui was always playing tricks on people. One night he played a particularly mischievous trick when he was sent to the house of the feared goddess of fire.
Mihi by Gavin Bishop
17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Board book. This beautiful baby book introduces ideas of me and my place in the world in the shape of a simple mihi or pepeha. Mihi / mihimihi / pepeha: introducing yourself and making connections to other people and places. Mihi is a simple book to share with babies and talk about their whānau and pl ...Show more
Patu : The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
40.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Non Fiction | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin Bishop. Discover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bi ...Show more
Piano Rock - A 1950s Childhood by Gavin Bishop
36.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is a memoir of Gavin Bishop's idyllic childhood days, growing up in Kingston beside gorgeous Lake Wakatipu. It's a gentle tale of a boyhood spent haring around outside, building huts, eating griddle scones, catching eels, watching the train, eating roast mutton, going to school on a horse, arguing ...Show more
Pops by Gavin Bishop
17.99 NZD
Category: Baby & Toddler Board Books
A day with grandad showing in simple, beautiful images the bond between grandfather and child: a small hand in a big one, big gumboots and little, some food, stories and a snooze to finish Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown t ...Show more
Rats! by Gavin Bishop
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Rats! is a quirky, lively fun story with stunning illustrations. Polly Piper's house is infested with rats - they are everywhere. She calls in an exterminator (closely resembling the Pied Piper) who leads them all away. When they go, Polly finds her life is empty and boring. Miserable, they plead to com ...Show more
Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths by Gavin Bishop
19.99 NZD
21.00 (4% off)
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
Written and illustrated by well-known children's writer and illustrator Gavin Bishop, Taming the Sun contains four stories - two well-known legends (Maui and the Sun and, Maui and the Big Fish) and two less well-known legends (Rona and the Moon and, Kahu the Taniwha). Aimed at children with reading ages ...Show more
The Gavin Bishop Treasury - 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales by Gavin Bishop
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
A very special hardback collection of 10 classic children's stories for young readers to treasure, written and illustrated by the multiple-award-winning New Zealand author Gavin Bishop. Comprising over two hundred pages of fabulous storytelling and stunning artwork, children will be spellbound by this ...Show more
The House That Jack Built by Gavin Bishop
22.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
The House that Jack Built is a Gecko Press revival of an award-winning, modern New Zealand classic, which uses a familiar nursery rhyme to tell the story of Aotearoa New Zealand in the early 19th century.
The Waka by Jean Prior; Gavin Bishop
19.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Te Reo Maori
Based on the traditional counting rhyme of the animals boarding Noah's ark, this version offers a New Zealand perspective, with some of the native animals of Aotearoa being called aboard the waka, a large Maori canoe.