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Crazy Kiwi Tops and Tails

By Sally Sutton
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Take 14 of New Zealand's best-loved native animals, split them down the middle and what do you get? Nearly 200 crazy Kiwi combos, from rare to wacky. Mix and match for hours of fun. Funny pictures of 'Moretaras', 'tuaporks', 'seawis' and 'ki-lions' are teamed up with... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Mix and match the images to invent your own hilarious animal and bird combinations. Have fun learning about animals and birds with this delightful split-page book.

Take 14 of New Zealand's best-loved native animals, split them down the middle and what do you get? Nearly 200 crazy Kiwi combos, from rare to wacky. Mix and match for hours of fun.

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Take 14 of New Zealand's best-loved native animals, split them down the middle and what do you get? Nearly 200 crazy Kiwi combos, from rare to wacky. Mix and match for hours of fun.

Funny pictures of 'Moretaras', 'tuaporks', 'seawis' and 'ki-lions' are teamed up with similarly mismatched poems: "My beak has nostrils at the end; it's useful I suppose. But don't you think it's kind of weird to suck food up your nose? If I'm a female, I'm a 'cow', although I never moo; A male's a 'bull', but kids are 'pups'. Does that make sense to you?"

Crazy Kiwi Tops and Tails by Sally Sutton offers endless amusement with its inventive and humorous approach. A must-have for those who love quirky fun!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143520153

Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2006

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Puffin

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Dave Gunson

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 213.0mm

Height: 263.0mm

Weight: 148g

Pages: 32

Collections

Activity Books and Kits Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Drawing, Colouring and Painting Books for Kids New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Children's Books New Zealand Published Penguin Books Sally Sutton

About the Author

Sally Sutton (Author) Aucklander Sally Sutton has been writing picture books, children's novels and plays for two decades. Her stories are celebrated for being 'busy with joy, and colour, and words that boing off the page' (The Spinoff) - making reading her stories a magical moment between parent and child. Sally has been awarded several Storylines Notable Book Awards for her work, and in 2009 she and illustrator Brian Lovelock won the Picture Book category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Roadworks. Her 2018 story about a cat's amazing true journey, The Cat from Muzzle (illustrated by Scott Tulloch), was a bestseller. Read more about Sally at www.sallysutton.co.nz

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