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Barry by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
"Barry may be no larger than a can of beans, but his powers are awesome. The trouble is he has been trapped down the back of the sofa for over fifty years unable to do the job he was built for. His creators have gone back to their own planet and without his control the Earth is gradually falling apart. ...Show more
Castles by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
In this fantastical world, there are castles in space, floating castles, castles in the sky and castles made of glass. Each one hides a royal family and there are all the usual mazes, puzzles tricks and messages waiting to be discovered. Colin Thompson's wonderfully detailed artwork reaches new heights ...Show more
Dust by Colin Thompson
27.99 NZD
Category: Children
In a perfect world this book would not exist. But we do not live in a perfect world. At any given moment of any given day there are people dying from natural disasters over which we have no control. Beyond natural disasters we add disasters of our making, but even if we all learn to live in peace ...Show more
Free to a Good Home by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
The Smith family has always been a little bit different. Their food is usually burnt, homework is a foreign country that they prefer not to visit, and their house is full of strange and unusual things. Other children might collect stray animals, but Peter and Sally Smith bring home an old lady from the ...Show more
Free to a Good Home by Colin Thompson
28.00 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Children
Most people don't like being different. They want exactly the same things as their neighbours, only bigger and more of them. Yet no matter how much they have, they always feel there is something missing. The Smiths are not like other people. They might not be any good at cooking, or housework, or homewo ...Show more
How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library. At night, when the library comes to life, Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume - How To Live Forever .
Looking for Atlantis by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
22.00 (9% off)
Category: Children
When a little boy's grandfather dies he leaves him with a sailor's chest full of treasures from voyages all over the world - and the dream of finding Atlantis. It's only when the boy has searched high and low through the house does he realise that Atlantis lives forever in the hopes and dreams carried i ...Show more
Out to Launch (Watch This Space #1) by Colin Thompson
19.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: Watch This Space
Kids adore Colin Thompson's brand of off-the-planet humour. Now here's an off-the-planet series to make them laugh even more!Radius Limpfast is one of the world's richest men. His reality TV shows have made him billions. The next series is always greater than the one before and yet he is never satisfied ...Show more
Pictures of Home by Colin Thompson
23.00 NZD
Category: Children
Colin Thompson's stunning illustrations of 'home' have been linked to verse and comment which they have inspired from children who have seen them. The result of this meeting between the vision of an artist and the honesty of children is an unusually imaginative book, touching, funny, provocative - and a ...Show more
Sometimes Love is Under Your Foot by Colin Thompson
19.00 NZD
Category: Children
Kevin the dog loves his owner Brian so much he thinks that Brian is God. But Brian usually ignores Kevin, except when he nearly treads on him in his big shoes. When Brian becomes ill, he learns to appreciate the love that has been there all along.
Sometimes Love is Under Your Foot by Colin Thompson
30.00 NZD
Category: Children
Kevin the dog likes his owners, and they like him. The children take him for walks and play with him, and at night he lies in his basket while the family watches television. But it is their father, George, whom Kevin loves. This is the story of how Geoge comes to appreciate Kevin.
Stanley (PB) by Colin Thompson
20.00 NZD
Category: Children
From the creator of FEARLESS comes a new canine tale. 'It was very quiet in Stanley's house. there were no brothers or sisters, no dads or grannies, not even a cat, a budgie or a goldfish.' Stanley lives with his human, Gerald, and Gerald's mum. Life is peaceful, but sometimes Stanley feels quite lonely ...Show more