Illustrated Nursery Rhymes by Felicity Brooks
$33.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends
An illustrated collection of over 100 traditional nursery rhymes. Featuring a cloth-bound cover, stylish design and illustrations, it offers well-known tongue-twisters, sayings and lullabies.
Fairy Tale Treasury by Alan Marks Illustrator
$35.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends | Series: Gift Sets Ser.
A classic anthology comprising eighteen classic fairytales from across the world, retold for younger readers. It includes: the Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Prince Ivan and the Firebird, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Snow Queen and others.
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
$20.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends | Reading Level: 7+
Mufaro's two daughters react in different ways to the King's search for a wife - one is aggressive and selfish, the other kind and dignified. The king disguises himself to learn the true nature of both the girls and chooses Nyasha, the kind and generous daughter, to be the queen.
Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks!: The Story of the Three Bears as Told by Baby Bear by Nancy Loewen
$14.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends | Series: Other Side of the Story
OF COURSE you think Goldilocks was a brat who broke in and trashed our house. You don't know the other side of the story. Well, let me tell you...This fractured fairy tale provides a fresh perspective on a well-known tale.
The Three Little Pigs by Gavin Bishop
$19.50 NZD
Category: Picture books
"Will the little pigs let that big, bad wolf in? No, not by the hair on their chinny chin chins!" There's plenty of huffing, puffing and fun in Gavin Bishop's beautifully illustrated version of a traditional favourite.
The Apple-Pip Princess by Jane Ray
$20.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends
In a barren land, parched by drought and ravaged by frosts, lies a crumbling kingdom. Ever since the Queen's death, the heart has quite vanished from the palace and its people, and so the King sets his three daughters a task ...Each must do something to make him proud, to change their land. But can the ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Lauren Child & Polly Borland
$20.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
When Goldilocks discovers an intriguing wooden cottage deep in the forest she just can't resist peeping inside. Now why would there be one, two, three of everything? Lauren Child brings her trademark innovative approach to this wonderfully warm and witty retelling of the classic cautionary tale in a sec ...Show more
Aesop's Kiwi Fables by Aesop; Ray Ching
$50.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends | Reading Level: near fine
In this collection, newly painted for this book, Ray Ching's drawing and painting skills, familiar to New Zealanders through his widely seen paintings of birds, are imaginatively engaged in an altogether new expression of Aesop's Fables. The stories have left their origins in Greece and ancient Europe a ...Show more
The Great Fairy Tale Disaster by David Conway
$18.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
Condition: **NEW** A follow up to the bestselling The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster. Fairytales have never been funnier than in this outrageously silly picture book! Once upon a time there lived an old Big Bad Wolf. He no longer has any huff and puff to blow down the Three Little Pigs' houses so he s ...Show more
The Three Little Pigs (Story & Play) by Roger Hall
$19.50 NZD
Category: Picture books - NZ
"Mother Pig is fed up with her lazy, disrespectful TV addictive piglets. She gives away the TV, packs their bags and reminds them to take their man-banks on their way out. The wolf, a land agent, sells each pig materials to build a home and comes back for an after-sales service call"--Publisher informat ...Show more
Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the Storybag by Various
$27.00 NZD
Category: Folktales, Fairytales, Legends
Magic beans. Sow them. Plant them. Watch children grow. 'If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!' (Shel Silverstein, Poet). Each ...Show more