New Zealand ABC

Name: New Zealand ABC
Brand: Archetype/Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780987668882
Price: 19.99 NZD
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Learn the alphabet with art and objects from Te Papa

By James Brown

Series: Te Papa Board Books

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The alphabet for 0–3 year olds, illustrated with authentically New Zealand artworks and objects from Te Papa's collections. Read More

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The alphabet for 0–3 year olds, illustrated with authentically New Zealand artworks and objects from Te Papa's collections.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780987668882

Publisher: Te Papa Press

Format: Board book

Date Published: 07 November 2014

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Te Papa Press

Illustration: 26 Illustrations, color

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 180.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 433g

Pages: 38

Collections

Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational James Brown New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Children's Books New Zealand Published Series: Te Papa Board Books

About the Author

James Brown’s first book of poems Go Round Power Please won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Award. His subsequent collections are Lemon, Favourite Monsters, The Year of the Bicycle, and Warm Auditorium (Victoria University Press). He is the author behind the useful, non-fiction booklet Instructions for Poetry Readings and, in 2005, edited The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape. Brown has been a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards three times. He teaches the Poetry Workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, and is part of the Writing Team at Te Papa, New Zealand’s national museum.

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