Yvonne Morrison

This favourite Kiwi book is now available in a slightly shortened board book version ideal for little hands. About the Author Yvonne Morrison is the best-selling author of A Kiwi Night Before Christmas and several other Scholastic titles. Yvonne and her husband recently moved back to Napier af...

The much-loved poem by Clement Clarke Moore, originally released under the title 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' but better known as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' is given a new slant in this Kiwi version. The weather is fine and hot and the family is staying at the bach for the Christmas holidays w...

A Kiwi Christmas favourite, now available in board book format, ideal for little hands! 'Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Christmas in New Zealand on a sunny summer's day, ay! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to have a Kiwi holiday!' Evoking memori...

Isn’t it great that Kiwi Mums can laugh at themselves! There are all kinds of Kiwi Mums, and Yvonne Morrison and Ross Kinnaird take a light-hearted look at some of them, glorying in their cultural diversity! Kids and adults alike will enjoy this humorous look at what makes a Kiwi Mum.

Following the huge success of Yvonne Morrison's A Kiwi Night Before Christmas children can now decorate their own Christmas scene at the famous house by the beach. Lines from the original book are repeated in each of the 4 views to set the scene for the decorating to follow.

Junior picture book. A Kiwi version of the popular song celebrating Christmas at the beach. Includes song and story CD.

A greedy stoat thinks his luck's in when he finds himself a nice big kiwi egg ...but in his haste to get away he stumbles and the egg rolls into a pukeko's nest. In this humourous Kiwi version of The Ugly Duckling, the young kiwi that hatches doesn't understand why he looks different, and why, when ...

Yvonne Morrison rewrites the Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer story, using the characters from A Kiwi Night Before Christmas. Brian is a new lamb born to a couple of the sheep that pull Santa’s tractor. But Brian doesn’t like rugby – or flying, for that matter. He’...

Yvonne Morrison shows her skill at adapting a traditional story to the Kiwi experience - this time following the style of Henny Penny.  Wacko Kakapo, Peewee Kiwi, Go-Getter Weta and friends set off to tell Tane Mahuta that the sky is falling. But when they all fall into the clutches of Gotta...

The traditional tale Over in the Meadow is a classic. In Down in the Forest the author takes this structure and retells it featuring native forest flora and fauna. Down in the forest, seeking shelter from the sun, lived a brown mother kiwi and her little kiwi one. Sleep!" said the mother. "...

Following the format of The Twelve Days of Christmas, this book begins when the school holidays begin, and each day Mum gets more and more frustrated with a child who keeps watching TV, while the house gets more and more messy. In the end, Mum decides to ship the child off to Grandma's! The words ca...

The pairing that brought us Wacko Kakapo now delights with the New Zealand version of the fable The Tortoise and the Hare. In this version it’s the slow native tuatara and the quick little skink that are pitted against each other to prove that ‘slow and steady wins the race’. De...

A NZ version of 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer', using the characters from A Kiwi Night Before Christmas. Brian is a new lamb born to a couple of the sheep that pull Santa's tractor through the sky. But Brian doesn't like rugby - or flying, for that matter. He'd much rather gaze at the stars tha...

Gramma asks me about my day, and I say, "Me and my friend played soccer." She says, "My friend and I played soccer." I say, "At your age?"Kids and adults alike will laugh aloud at this series of hilarious misconstruals between a child and her grandmother as Gramma corrects the child's grammar!Author...

Jacko Possum's peaceful life in the outback is turned upside down when his cousin invites him to the city. Jacko quickens his pace, and tries to keep out of danger, but it's a losing battle - he is an outback possum through and through. With his nerves shot, he heads home - only to find he has a new...