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Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell
19.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ... NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP GREENAWAY MEDAL 2019 From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' o Philip Pullman It's Christmas Eve and Theo o lef ...Show more
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matt ...Show more
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fictionFrom standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establis ...Show more
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD by Katherine Rundell
19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him.As the plane crashes into t ...Show more
The Golden Mole, And other living treasure by Katherine Rundell
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals - a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip.A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to ...Show more
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
17.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
'Vita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.' Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing J ...Show more
The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
19.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell - From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Prize 'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination' Philip Pullman Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ...Show more
The Zebra's Great Escape (HB) by Katherine Rundell
33.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
A TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK'A writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power' - Observer'A writer with an utterly distinctive voice and wild imagination' - Philip Pullman'Read everything she writes' - Daily Mail_______________Mink doesn't believe in rules. She loves running wild a ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
15.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
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