Distinguished author and lawyer Ron Crosby rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps ...

Here’s a fantastic tale for kids about the classic Kiwi holiday that includes a caravan, a beach and the sometimes-smelly toilet shed out the back ...

Historian Matthew Wright goes to the heart of how the First World War affected the lives of ordinary New Zealanders. The book analyses what it was ...

Why did the New Zealand Wars occur? Who fought them and how did they proceed? And where were these battles fought? In The New Zealand Wars, Matthew...

Tui, his cousin Jennifer and their whanau go to the south Kaipara to visit her Uncle Rua and Auntie Mina. Exploring the area down to Muriwai, they ...

Award-winning children’s author Philippa Werry teams up with leading Turkish illustrator Burak Akbay to tell a tale that crosses the battle lines o...

There's a tui in our teapot. He's looking out at me. A tui in the teapot? Yes ... he wants a cup of tea! A tui and his various friends including ta...

Moa is munching melons in the moonlight, Laughing Owl hoots happily, Huia are eating grubs in the hibiscus tree ... and that’s just the start as cr...

Weta, cricket, beetle and their other insect friends want to come along to school with the kids. But is it such a good idea? A class of excited chi...

Born into poverty in 1939, Toby Curtis rose to the peak of achievement in Māoridom. His long history of leadership in education, broadcasting and t...

'How was school today, Huia' her mum asked. 'It was okay . but our news topic is our family'.Huia feels too shy to talk about her family to her cla...

This book brings to life for children the history of Auckland around the big Waterview tunnel project in a blend of English and Māori. What the chi...

The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...

Since 1996 the Going West Writers Festival has attracted literary voices from around Aotearoa to West Auckland for a feast of ideas and words. Draw...

The first two books in The NZ Series give a new take on New Zealand society, history, science and geography. Here is a snappily designed and fact-p...

A Māori war canoe being paddled a full speed is an awesome sight. Thanks to the renaissance in canoe building, more and more traditional waka taua ...

Told through case studies of entrepreneurs, companies and social enterprises, Whāriki weaves together business theory and day-to-day practice to an...

Written in te Reo Māori and translated by the author, this picture book from children’s literature advocate Dr Darryn Joseph will be published to m...

The war was over and Dad was coming home at last! But the days and weeks go by, and when he does return Dad is not the happy man that young Rita on...

Wally is the sheep supreme, the master of his flock, proud to be the handsome head of his faithful ewes. But pride, as they say, comes before a fal...

When Izzy moans about unloading the dishwasher, Great-uncle Arthur says, 'You don't know how lucky you are!'He's always done something worse - like...