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A Booming in the Night by Ben Brown
17.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Kakapo is lonely so Pukeko sets out to find him a friend. But perhaps Kakapo doesn?t need Pukeko?s help at all ? the booming in the night seems to be attracting the right sort of company. A delightful story, beautifully written and illustrated by the author and illustrator team who produced Natural New ...Show more
A Fish In the Swim of the World by Ben Brown
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Affecting and evocative, this classic memoir by one of Aotearoa's finest Maori writers is now updated with new material. 'This is a book of memories. Some of them are my own. Some of them belong to others. They are as true and as fallible as any memories-distorted by time and distance and a writer's cho ...Show more
Bailed to Fail by Brown Ben
25.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
In 2021, Lyttelton poet Ben Brown spent time with the young offenders housed in the country's Oranga Tamariki youth justice residences, sharing korero and kupu and tikanga. This putunga korero collects the words the rangatahi were inspired to write in their sessions with Ben, many of them putting their ...Show more
How Did I Get Here? Soliloquies Of Youth by Ben Brown (edited by)
25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
There are times when the right to remain silent and the need to say something exist in the same moment. I would suppose a choice is made at such a time as to whether guilt is a matter of fact or a matter of conscience. A youthful mind forged in a crucible of fear might argue, ‘Yeah I did it, but that do ...Show more
Pukeko Counts to 10: Ka Tatau a Pūkeko ki te 10 by Ben Brown
16.00 NZD
Category: Books in te reo Māori
A beautiful bilingual counting board book for toddlers featuring the birds of Aotearoa, from poet Ben Brown and illustrator Helen Taylor.Let's go visiting with Pukeko, and count up the birds together in Maori and English!With durable card leaves at a suitable size for little hands, and gorgeous page des ...Show more
The Apple by Ben Brown
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
'Once upon a certain day a bright and shiny girl with green eyes, golden hair and rosy cheeks picked a golden apple that was hanging from a magic apple tree like a second sun in the sky...' This girl is called Blossom and little does she realise that she is not the only one who wants this special appl ...Show more
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