Books by Author
Books in RED are Living Books
** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Acheson, Frank Oswald Victor
Plume of the Arawas (1974)
Acres, Avis
The Hutu and Kawa Series:
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Hutu and Kawa Find an Island (1957)
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Hutu and Kawa Meet Tuatara (1956)
Opo the Gay Dolphin (1993)
Agnew, Leonie
Conrad Cooper's Last Stand (2014)
Alexander, Marc
Allan, Ann
A Child's Prayer (1946)
Allen, C R
A Poor Scholar: A Tale of Progress (1936)
Allen, Geoffrey Mark
The Fairies of Down Under And Other Pakeha Fairy Tales
Alpers, Antony
A Book of Dolphins (1960)
Anderson, Mona
A River Rules My Life (1960) **
Home Is the High Country (1979) **
A Letter from James (1972)
Both Sides of the River (1981)
Mary-Lou: The Story of a High-country Lamb (1975)
Old Duke: The Story of a Hard-case Horse (1977)
Over The River (1966)
The Good Logs of Algidus (1965)
The Water Joey: A Nostalgic Look at the Old Wheat Mills of Canterbury, and the Men and Women who Served Them (1976)
The Wonderful World at My Doorstep Mount Algidus Station (1968)
Anstis, Marnie
Taketakerau: The Millennium Tree (2018) **
Armitage, Alan
Flight Through the Jungle
Survivors from the Raider (1945)
Wild Horse Gulch: Full Length Novel (1947)
Armitage, Ronda and David
The Lighthouse Keeper's Christmas (2002)
Arnold, Rollo
Bracken Block (1966)
The Freedom of Ariki (1967)
Atkinson, C. E.
Copper top (2009)
Atkinson, Mollie Miller
Bird Watching
Richard Bird At Sea (1947)
Richard Bird in the Bush (1944)
Atkinson, Tania
Mr. Krenko's Wednesday Visitor (1972)
Pelorus Jack: The Story of New Zealand's Famous Dolphin (1994)
Audley, Ernest Henry
Islands Float at Eleven (1952)
Austin, L. N. John
Kirsty In Jeopardy And other stories (1975)
Aylmer, Mrs. J. E.
Distant Homes; Or, The Graham Family in New Zealand (1862)
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Bacon, Ron
Again the Bugles Blow (1973) **
Rua and the Sea People (1983)
The Boy and the Taniwha (1972)
A Legend of Kiwi (1987)
Hemi and the Whale (1988)
Home of the Winds (1986)
The Fish of Our Fathers (1984)
The House of the People (1986)
Bagnall, Jill
Crayfishing with Grandmother (1973)
Balantine-Scott, Nadoo
Trail Blazers of New Zealand: Original Narration (1974)
Baldwin, Olive
Aotearoa: A History Of New Zealand (1975)
The Story Of A New Zealand Opossum: Twitty-Dee (1978)
Lady Barker (Mary Anne)
Station Life in New Zealand (1870) **
Barnett, Stephen
Marty and the Dragon: and other stories, plays and poems (1981)
Barr, Janet Rhoda
Within Sound of the Bell (1953)
Barraud, Ned & Candler, Gillian
Explore & Discover Nature Series (2013+)
- In the Garden
- Under the Ocean
- Up the River
- At the Beach
- In the Bush
Bassett, Judith (Sinclair, Keith)
The Story of New Zealand (1985-2002) **
Batistich, Amelia
Another Mountain, Another Song (1981)
Battye, Susan
"The Mine's Afire!": The Journal of Tommy Carter, Brunnerton, 1896 (2009)
Baxter, James K
The Tree House (and other poems for children) (1974) **
Selections from The tree house: James K. Baxter's poems for children (2002)
The Coaster (1959)
Beale, Fleur
I Am Not Esther (2012)
Beames, Margaret
Josef's Bear (2004)
The Greenstone Summer (1977)
The Parkhurst Boys (1986)
Beck, Jennifer
The Bantam and the Soldier (2014)
Bedford, H. Louisa
Under One Standard Or, The Touch that Makes Us Kin: A Story of the Time of the Maori War (1935)
BELL, Colin Kane
Po-Ling: The Cook from Ti Tree Point: A quiet tale of the Good Old Days (1963)
Why Pigs Have Curly Tails (1971)
Bell, Diana Frances
The Rebels of Journey's End (1967)
Bell, Glenys
Our Own Riding Stables (1975)
Binchy, Maeve
100 New Zealand Poems for Children (1999)
Birchall, Brian
James, the Captain Cook Pig (1976)
Bishop, Gavin
Counting the stars: four Māori myths (2009)
Maui and the Sun (1998)
Taming the Sun: Four Māori Myths (2004)
Blackburn, Carol
Grant the Ant (1982)
Waiting for Sunday (1995)
What do you do? (Big Book) (1975)
Boom, Rosie
Bonallac
Goat Kingdom (1991)
Boon, Kevin
The Treaty of Waitangi (2000)
Bougen, John
Ben and Mark of the High Country (2009)
Brathwaite, Don
Native Birds of New Zealand (1986)
Brathwaite, Errol
The Flame Box: A Story for Children and Other Real People (1978)
Brett, Bernard
Captain Cook (1970)
Bright, A D
By Bush And Sea: Tales New & Old From New Zealand (1931)
Three Xmas Gifts And Other Tales (1901)
Brookes, O M
The Diamond Smugglers (1965)
Brown, J. Edward
Chathams' spy ship (1976)
Burton, Olga P.
Stories Of Bird And Bush
Burton, Ormond Edward
Bart: The Story of a Dog (1944)
Butler, Dorothy
By Jingo!: A tale of old New Zealand (1992)
Come back Ginger: A tale of old New Zealand
The Magpies Said: Stories and Poems from New Zealand (1980)
Buxton, Jane
Donkey Dust (1997)
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Callow, D M
Toby In The South Seas (1961)
Campbell, Alistair
The Happy Summer (1975)
Carey, Joyce
The children of Gemstone Mountain (1979)
Carnegie, Wendy
Finding a Soul (1971)
Castle, John
Hippy, Or, A Modern Fairy Tale, Or, Hippiness Is, Or, A Child's Garden of Flower Children (1968)
Catran, Ken
Red Leader Down (2006)
Steel Riders (1987)
Chan, Weng Wai
Lizard's Tale (2019)
Chapman-Taylor, Ray
Pioneer Family
Charles, Joe
Blackberry Pie: 48 New Zealand Ballads (2014)
Clark, M R
Hatherly’s First Fifteen (1930)
Colomb, George Hatton
The Miss Crusoes: A curious story for big and little children (1888)
Colquhoun, Glenn
Amazing Tales of Aotearoa (2008)
Colwell, Max
Peter The Whaler In The Southern Seas (1964)
Combs, F L
Ben (1966)
Cooper, Audrey
The Little Godwit: A New Zealand Story for Children Everywhere (1978)
Cottrell, V. M.
The Lost Cave of Pukerangi: A New Zealand Story (1942)
Cowan, James
Tales of the Maori Bush (1995)
Cowley, Joy
Bow Down Shadrach (1992)
Chicken Feathers (2008)
Dunger (2013)
Friends: Snake and Lizard (2009)
Gladly, Here I Come (1994)
Greedy Cat and the Sneeze (2006)
Shadrach Girl (2000)
Snake and Lizard (2007)
Speed of Light (2014)
Tarore and Her Book (2009)
The Bakehouse (2015)
The Duck in the Gun (2009)
The Silent One (1981)
The Video Shop Sparrow (1999)
Ticket to the sky dance (2008)
Crawford, Murray
Mystery on the Whanganui (1994)
Crombie, Isabel
My Home In New Zealand
Cullen, Clifford Arnold
The Cow that Fainted and Other Animal Stories With Decorations by Patrick Hanly (1966)
Cupples, Mrs. George
The Redfords: An emigrant story (1886)
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Dale, W S
Goldenhair
Dallas, Ruth
The Children in the Bush Series **
- The Children In The Bush (1969)
- The Big Flood In The Bush (1972)
- The Wild Boy in the Bush (1971)
- Holiday Time in the Bush (1983)
A Dog Called Wig (1970) **
The House on the Cliffs (1975)
Daniel, M. J.
New Zealand Mammals: A Bulletin for Schools (1972)
Dare, Jane
Rouseabout Jane: A Land Girl in New Zealand (1956)
Davey, Cyril
Samuel Marsden (1957)
Davidson, Leon
Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam (2006)
Scarecrow Army: The Anzacs at Gallipoli (2005)
Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front (2010)
Dawson, Helen
Noreen and the Henry Affair (1964)
Noreen's First Case (1957)
De Hamel, Joan
Hideaway (1992)
Take the Long Path (1978)
The Third Eye (1987)
X Marks the Spot
De Roo, Anne
Boy and the Sea Beast (1971) **
Cinnamon and nutmeg (1974)
Friend Troll, Friend Taniwha (1986)
Jackie Nobody (1984)
Mick’s Country Cousins (1974)
Sergeant Sal (1991)
The Bats' Nest (1986)
The Gold Dog (1982)
A home for the mouse twins (1994)
Chloe's people (1999)
Henry, from a church mousehole (1996)
Hepzibah's book of famous mice (1993)
Mouse Talk: By Henry (1993)
Delamain, Brenda
The Pipiwais, the Possums and the Penguins (1978)
Dick, Betty
High Country Family (1964)
Dickie, F E Davy
Snow In Summer
Dodd, Lynley
Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack (2007)
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (1999)
Hairy Maclary Scattercat (2008)
Hairy Maclary's bone
Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper (2007)
Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet (2011)
Hairy Maclary's showbusiness (1997)
Schnitzel Von Krumm Forget-Me-Not (2017)
Schnitzel Von Krumm, Dogs Never Climb Trees (2008)
Slinky Malinki (2007)
Slinky Malinki catflaps (2006)
Slinky Malinki, Open the Door (1995)
Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers (2007)
Duder, Tessa
Alex (1987)
Night Race to Kawau (1985)
The Alex Quartet: Alex, Alex In Winter, Alessandra: Alex In Rome, Songs For Alex (1992)
Duggan, Maurice
Falter Tom and the Water Boy (1957) **
The Fabulous Mcfanes And Other Children’s Stories (1974)
Dunlop, Beverley
Earthquake Town (1984)
Spirits of the Lake (1988)
The Dolphin Boy (1982)
Dunn, H. P.
The Capture Of Black Pete (1967)
The School Detectives (1980)
Dunstan, Peggy
In and Out the Windows (1980)
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Ell, Gordon
Abel Tasman: In Search of the Great South Land (1992)
Fossils (1996)
Great Journeys in Old New Zealand: Travel and Exploration in a New Land (1995)
Rivers and Water (1996)
Rocks and Landforms (1996)
Seashore Life (1997)
Shells (1996)
The children's guide to the wildflowers & weeds of New Zealand (1983)
Wainamu: The Town by the Sea (1992)
New Zealand's Story in Stamps (1987)
Ell, Sarah
A New Zealand Christmas: Three Centuries of Kiwi Christmas Celebrations from the Alexander Turnbull Library (2008)
Adventurous Times in Old New Zealand: First-hand Accounts of the Lawless Days (1994)
Pioneer Women (2019)
When the War Came Home (2002)
Ellin, Elizabeth Muriel
The Children of Clearwater Bay (1969) **
Else, Chris
Poor Man's Gold: Hard times on the Clutha (1979)
Elwell, Rev E Simeon
The Boy Can’t Colonists Or eight years of colonial life in Otago, New Zealand (1975)
Emanuel, Susanne
Peter in Trouble at the Museum (1984)
England, Clarice
Escott-Inman, Herbert
The Castaways of Disappointment Island: Being an Account of Their Suffering (1911)