Rhyming text follows the construction of a road. Includes brief factual information about the machinery that is used. Suggested level: junior. A great book for boys browsing.
Author Sally Sutton
Monday, February 22, 2010
"Road Works" a Junior Picture Book and Winner in the NZ Post Book Awards
Rhyming text follows the construction of a road. Includes brief factual information about the machinery that is used. Suggested level: junior. A great book for boys browsing.
Author Sally Sutton
Enemy At the Gate by Phillipa Werry, New Zealand author and NZ Post Book Award Winner
It's December 1936 when the first polio cases are suspected. Soon a polio epidemic is sweeping the country. Schools are closed, swimming pools and movie theatres banned to children, and travel is restricted. Tom is the best runner in the school, but you can't outrun polio, and nobody knows when it will strike next.
Chicken Feathers by New Zealand author, Joy Cowley
A feel-good story about Josh, and his cantankerous pet hen, Semolina.
A great, warm read by a New Zealand author. "Old Drumble" won a NZ Post Book Award in 2009
Set in the small Waikato town of Waharoa in the 1930's. Jack Jackman is a young boy who wants to be a stock drover and has a special relationship with an old family friend, Andy the Drover. Andy shares yarns and adventures with Jack each week when he drives a mob of sheep or cattle through the main street with the help of his dog, Old Drumble and his horse, Nosy.
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