Books by Author
Books in RED are Living Books
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Packer-Doust, Joan
Dainty Dishes For Children: Menus and Recipes
Palmer, Stanley
To the Harbour (2007)
Park, Ruth
Callie's Castle
Nuki and the Sea Serpent: A Maori Story (1969)
One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker
Playing Beatie Bow
The Frost & the Fire
The Harp in the South
The Witch's Thorn (1952)
Peacocke, Isabel Maud
The Good Intentions Of Angela (1937)
The Misdoings Of Micky And Mac (1919)
When I Was Seven (1927)
Brenda And The Babes (1927)
Dicky Knight-Errant (1916)
His kid Brother (1944)
London Called Them
Patricia Pat (1917)
Quicksilver (1922)
Robin Of The Round House (1920)
The Cruise of the Crazy Jane
The Dwarf Of Dark Mountain
Petersen, Diana
Pippa the Fairy Penguin (1990)
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Phillimore, Jane
Katherine Mansfield (1989)
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Pollard, Simon
Why is that Lake so Blue? (2018)
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Power, Elaine
Australian White-Backed Magpie and Australasian Harrier (2000)
Blackbird and Thrush
Brown Kiwi and Morepork
Bush and High Country Birds of New Zealand
Grey Warbler and Fantail
Little Blue Penguin (1990)
Looking at Familiar Birds
New Zealand Water Birds: An Artist's Journal (1970)
Seabirds of New Zealand (1979)
Silvereye and House Sparrow
Small Birds of the New Zealand Bush (1970)
Starling and Myna
Tui and Pigeon
Waders in New Zealand (1971)
Welcome Swallow and New Zealand Kingfisher
Prebble, Gray Kingsley
The Birds of Summer (1977)
Price, Susan
Books for life: the story of a collection of children's books donated to the National Library of New Zealand (1991)
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Randell, Beverley
John, the Mouse Who Learned to Read (1969)
Redhead, J. Slater
Call of the Kotuku (1986)
Reed, Alfred Hamish
A Song Of Praise For Maoriland
First New Zealand Christmases: Tasman 1642, Cook 1769, Marsden 1814 (1933)
The Story Of New Zealand (1952)
The Kauri (1953)
Samuel Marsden: Greatheart of Maoriland (1939)**
The Isabel Reed Bible Story Book: Together with Children's Prayers, Hymns, Bible Games, Etc (1944)
Reed, Alexander Wyclif
Reeds’ Bible Story Atlas (1953)
Wonder Tales Of Maori Land (1967)
Builders of New Zealand: An Illustrated History for Young People (1972)
George Augustus Selwyn: Pioneer Bishop of New Zealand (1939)
The Biggest Fish in the World (1974)
Everybody's Story of New Zealand (1950)
Reeves, Hon William Pember
The New Zealand School Reader: Prepared for use in the fifth and sixth standard classes under the direction of Hon William Pember Reeves (1895)
Reid, Joyce
A Caravan Close Behind (1965)
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Ringer, J B
Young Emigrants: New Zealand Juvenile Fiction 1833-1919 (1980)
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Robinson, Diana
Zinnia
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Rooke, Daphne
The New Zealand Twins (1957)
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Rose, Lyndon
The Parting of the Mist (1963)
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Rynbach, Iris Van
Captain Cook's Christmas Pudding (1997)
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Salmon, John Tenison
Butterflies of New Zealand (1964)
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Salt, Valerie & Colin
My Cobber (1967)
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Sandall, Helen
The Emigrants (1963)
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Sanders, James
The Colourful Colony: Pioneering Life in New Zealand (1983)
Satchell, William
The Greenstone Door (1957)
Saunders, Kenneth
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Scanlan, Nelle M
Kelly Pencarrow (1958)
Tides Of Youth (1958)
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Schafer, Adele
Mere's Adventures (1978)
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Schur, Maxine
Weka Won't Learn: And Other Stories for Children (1978)
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Scott, Mary Clarke
Fatal Lady (1960)
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Shanks, Anne
Tuki's Secret (1975)
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Sharp, Andrew
Adventurous Armada: The story of Legazpi’s expedition (1961)
Shire, E. S.
Rutherford and the Nuclear Atom (1972)
Shirley, Anne
Wing-Commander Red-Bill
Shrimpton, Arnold Wilfred
A Junior Geography of New Zealand and Australia (1928)
Sinclair, Keith
The Story of New Zealand (1985-2002)
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Slane, Chris
Nice Day for a War: Adventures of a Kiwi Soldier in World War One (2011)
Smith, Clive Kingsley
King Ngarara of Waitomo (1977)
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Smith, Fraser
Awatea's Treaure (2017)
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Smith, Joan
Randolph: The Rabbit that ran away (19--)
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Smith, Mavis
Child of the Kauri (2006)
Smith, Miriam
Annie and Moon (2000)
Kimi And The Watermelon (1983)
Somerset, David
Barney and the Eels (1981)
Soper, Eileen Louise
Young Jane: A Tale of New Zealand in the Sixties (1955) **
The Green Years (1969)
The Month of the Brittle Star (1971) **
Squire, Jillian
Pussyfooting (1978)
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Stack, James West
Early Maoriland Adventures (1937)
Stenson, Marcia
Illustrated History of New Zealand (2004)
Illustrated History of New Zealanders at War (2008)
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Stonehouse, Bernard
Gulls And Terns (1965)
Whales (1964)
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Stuttard, Marie
Mr Chip in Space (1983)
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Sumner, Andre
Susu: The Siamese Kitten (1963)
Sutherland, Margaret
Hello, I'm Karen (1974)
Sutton, Eve
My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (1978) **
Moa Hunter (1978)
Green Gold (1976)
Tuppenny Brown (1977) **
Johnny Sweep (1977) **
Kidnapped By Blackbirders (1984)
Skip for the huntaway (1983)
Surgeon's Boy (1983)
Valley of Heavenly Gold (1989) **
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Sutton-Smith, Brian
Our Street (1975)
Smitty Does a Bunk (1975)
The Cobbers (1976)
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Swift, Helen
The Pool of Stars: A tale for English and New Zealand children (1960)
Syme, Ronald
Gipsy Michael (1954)
River Of No Return
The Great Canoe (1957)
The Spaniards Came at Dawn (1959)
Thunder Knoll (1960)
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Taylor, William
Possum Perkins (1987)
The Porter Brothers (1990)
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Tempest, John
Temple, Philip
Beak of the Moon (1981)
Castles in the Air (1973)
Dark of the Moon (1993)
Sam (1984)
Story of the Kakapo (1989)
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THOMPSON, N. O.
Sally Becomes a New Zealander (1960) **
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Thomson, Rev J Millar
The Bush Boys Of New Zealand Or Dinkums And Mac (1905)
Tindale, Norman Barnett
Rangatira: The high-born (1959)
Tracy, Mona
Lawless Days: A Tale Of Adventure In Old New Zealand And The South Seas (1928)
Rifle and Tomahawk: A Stirring Tale of the Te Kooti Rebellion (1927)
Trail, Josephine
Child of the Arrow (1984)
Tucker, Jon
Those Shipwreck Kids (2017)
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Tucker, Miss Sarah
The Southern Cross and Southern Crown, Or, The Gospel in New Zealand (1855)
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Turnbull, Michael
The Changing Land: A short history of New Zealand for children
The Land Of New Zealand (1964)
Turner, John
The Mystery of Friars' Hall (1946)