The Tunnel of Dreams
Author: Bernard Beckett. Publisher: Text Publishing.
A delightful middle-grade fantasy adventure about friendship and loyalty, and about dreaming big and achieving the impossible. 29 September release
SS Penguin SOS
Author: Mary-anne Scott. Illustrator: Lisa Allen.
Lachie’s school is putting on Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl to celebrate the author’s birthday. But, as we all know, school plays are notoriously full of surprises and this is no exception!
September 2020 release
Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea
Author: T.K. Roxborogh.
Charlie has to find a way to reunite the gods, realise the power in the ancient songs his grandfather taught him, and discover why he was chosen for this particular task. 23 September 2020 release
I Am the Universe
Author/Illustrator: Vasanti Unka.
This stunning story demonstrating the scale of the Universe and our place in it was created specially for children aged three years and up. 5 September 2020 release
Fantastic Mr Bean
Author: Mary-anne Scott. Illustrator: Lisa Allen.
Lachie’s school is putting on Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl to celebrate the author’s birthday. But, as we all know, school plays are notoriously full of surprises and this is no exception!
September 2020 release
The Silence of Snow
Author: Eileen Merriman.
A compelling medical novel about facing one’s demons, self-prescribing and finding the strength to carry on, even when it seems that all is lost. Anaesthetic Fellow Rory McBride is adrift. Since a routine procedure went horribly wrong, he has been plagued by sleeplessness, flashbacks and escalating panic attacks.
September 2020 release
Glass Houses and Other Stories
Author: Karen Phillips.
Each of Karen Phillips’ stories is like the glass houses in the title story – small pieces, some opaque and some translucent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, sometimes in ways imperceptible to the outside eye.
September 2020 release
Te Kaieke Tohorā
Author: Witi Ihimaera. Translator: Tīmoti Kāretu.
The te reo Māori translation of the international bestseller The Whale Rider.
September 2020 release
State Highway One
Author: Sam Coley.
It's been years since Alex was in New Zealand, and years since he spent any one-on-one time with his twin sister, Amy. When they lose their parents in a shock accident it seems like the perfect time to reconnect as siblings. To reconnect with this country they call “home”. August 2020 release
Bug Week
Author: Airini Beautrais.
A scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy. 10 September 2020 release
Mini Whinny #3: A Bad Day at the OK Corral
Author: Stacy Gregg. Illustrator: Ruth Paul.
The third title in the popular picture book series from internationally bestselling author Stacy Gregg. September 2020 release
Little Hector Meets Mini Māui
Author/Illustrator: Ruth Paul.
Little Hector is off on a holiday to meet his rare and special cousin, Mini Māui. 29 September 2020 release
A Roderick Finlayson Reader: Stories, essays, autobiography, poems, letters
Author: Roderick Finlayson
Roderick Finlayson (1904–1992) was a pioneering New Zealand writer who came to prominence in the 1930s: this is a selection of his fiction and non-fiction - some unpublished, much of it previously uncollected. September 2020 Release
Māui me te Ahi a Mahuika
Author/Illustrator: Donovan Bixley. Translators/advisers: Darryn Joseph & Keri Opai.
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Māui captured the secret of fire. Te Reo Māori Edition. 10 September 2020 release
Māui and the Secret of Fire
Author/Illustrator: Donovan Bixley. Translators/advisers: Darryn Joseph & Keri Opai.
Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Māui captured the secret of fire. 10 September 2020 release
All’s Happy That Ends Happy
Author: Rose Lagercrantz. Illustrator: Eva Eriksson.
September 2020 release
Mallory, Mallory: The Revenge of the Tooth Fairy
Author: James Norcliffe. Illustrator: Emily Walker.
Mallory and Arthur kidnap the tooth fairy and get more than they bargained for in this sparkling fantasy adventure novel. September 2020 release
Sam’s Bath
Author: Ali Foster. Illustrator: Nikki Slade Robinson.
Sam’s house doesn’t have a bath but his answer to the problem upsets the sheep, the cows, the frogs and the birds. September 2020 release