Nature & Environment

A charming introduction to New Zealand's wildlife of the night, starting with the kiwi. Each page describes the creature to be found on the next page, encouraging the reader to predict what the creature might be.

Go on safari and discover the incredible animals we share the planet with. Cool quizzes! Amazing photographs! Fascinating facts! Giant pull-out poster!

The bestselling team of Fernyhough and Bougen (The Road to Castle Hill: A High Country Love Story ) are back with a wonderful book for children that's bound to become a classic. It is the true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount White Station, near Arthurs Pass, one of the biggest and most remote stations in the South Island - 45...

The Children's Weather Encyclopedia is a clear and comphrehensive guide to our planet's weather and climate. It's full of fascinating facts and intriguing information.

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house...There's a big bug in the wardrobe and a scorpion in the shed. Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about creepy-crawlies. Fact-packed, fun-packed, get packed ...and head for Henry's House.

Travel back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the world. Cool quizzes! Amazing images! Fascinating facts! Giant pull-out poster!

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house...There's a diplodocus in the basement and fossil footprints in the garden. Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about dinosaurs. Fact-packed, fun-packed, get packed ...and head for Henry's House.

Every year in March thousands of godwits leave New Zealand and fly almost 17,000 kilometres to Alaska, where they mate and raise new godwits, and then turn around and fly all the way back to New Zealand. This is the story of two godwits whose flight in 2007 was tracked using transmitters. Millions of people watched their progress on the internet. A male bird named E3 mysteriously turned back when...

"Living with a Willy" is about what it's really like to be a willy owner. It's about your body and what happens to it. Real things, stuff like what it feels like to stand in the shower next to someone who's only two weeks older than you, but seems to be in possession of a member several sizes bigger. This book isn't going to teach you a lot of long Latin words ending in m, but it might...

Rangitito: Te toka tu moana /The Rock Standing in the Ocean tells the dramatic story of Auckland's most striking icon - its birth, the kaka bird's connection to Rangitoto, the imprint of humans on its fragile wildlife, and how the island's guardians are saving it today. Maria Gill's lyrical and informative story accompanied by Heather Arnold's superbly detailed illustrations make Rangitoto a book...

This title contains two books in one. In "Ugly Bugs" readers will observe foul families of bugs, discover the secrets of strange scientists, and test the theories of insect disguise. Nasty nature covers the world of animals. Readers grapple with some very ferocious creatures, follow the antics of nosey naturalists and learn how to get on with a gorilla. Full of the fact files, quizzes,...