One Christmas Eve, some years ago, a ginger kitten wandered along a street on the far side of town. He was hungry, and cold and wet. Bertie McGinty...

London 1950: a father makes the heart-wrenching decision to send his children to New Zealand for a better life. Young Pat and one of her sisters ar...

Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretc...

Austrian-born artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser arrived in New Zealand in 1973, seeking refuge from a world out of kilter with nature. After trave...

High-school student Haki needs to find the pounamu that was stolen from him after a car crash by a mysterious old man who seems to know a lot about...

The New Zealand Division's capture of the French town of Le Quesnoy was its last and most successful action in the First World War. Breaking throug...

First published in 1958, this is the classic collection of myths relating to that cradle of Māori culture, Rotorua – with relevance across New Zeal...

This is a heart-warming collection of memories and snapshots of ordinary New Zealanders and their cars from the 1950s through to the 1980s, forming...

Text in English and Māori. Imaginative, powerful and fun, this is award-winning author Tim Tipene’s modern take on the classic story of Māui catchi...

Pronounce and understand Māori place names with the new fourth edition of Reed’s classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand....

Here is a full inventory of traditional Maori weapons with all the available written information about traditional weapons collected into one conci...

In this modern retelling of the beloved myth, Māui is a schoolboy who lives with his mother and four older brothers in a city where the day is neve...

First published by Reed in 1999, with an introduction by Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby’s reputation as a daring, original ch...

Down the footpath, along past the treesI'm out in front, moving with ease.(With my new secret weapon -- cabbage and peas!)Red Pants Boy (RPB) reall...

Every school holidays the kids go and stay with their nanny in her house by the sea. One morning (for some reason) Nanny Mihi gets the kids up earl...

‘What are you doing, Nanny?’ we asked. ‘Wait and you will see,’ she said. After her welcome return in 2018’s Nanny Mihi and the Bellbird, Nanny is ...

Nanny Mihi’s grandchildren excitedly visit her every school holidays. Only this time they arrive with colds Nanny takes the kids around her fores...

With six books now published, The NZ Series is a valuable non-fiction resource for general readers and schools, introducing complex subjects in sim...

A book to treasure for young and old, Robyn Kahukiwa’s "Ngā Atua -- Māori Gods" takes the reader on a beautiful visual journey while imparting simp...

Nga Waka o Nehera is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand – including lists of the waka, name...