Elena de Roo

A melodious counting picture book bursting with troublesome tūī, perfect to read aloud! The familiar antics of one of New Zealand's favourite native birds have been captured by award-winning picture book creators Elena de Roo and Paul Beavis. SQUAWK! Things are getting loud! The kowhai branch is bending ... what a sticky tūī crowd! Have the tūī slurped too much...

Wizardry to Wētā Verse is a delightful collection of 75 poems crafted for 5-10-year-olds. Discover an array of enchanting themes: Keeping you awake poems DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems Blustery and breezy poems Sweeping through the seasons poems Metaphors and weather verse Wizardry to wētā verse Lonely and alone poems Poems about poems poems The universe, the earth, and...

"Win the game to choose your name and free the players who remain." Twelve-year-old September is determined to choose an adventurous name for herself from the Name Bank - not like all her friends, who are named after flowers or trees. Soon she discovers that she has no choice, unless she wins an ancient and mysterious board game. And every...

I spy a cloud go floating byWhere do you go, Cloud, so high?To the seaShe singsWhere the wild gulls flyThen catch me if you canI cryWe race each other to the seaCan''t catch me, CloudCan't catch meA boy and a dog follow a cloud out to sea, but as the weather worsens he relies on the whales and waves to...

A wonderfully alliterative poem describing the joyous run from home to the beach, with all the sights, sounds and smells that capture the moment. The book features award-winning illustrator Jenny Cooper's interpretation.