Best Selling Children's Books Books

Shrinky Dinks is amazing shrinkable plastic. Draw or trace a design on it, color it, cut it out with ordinary scissors, bake it for mere minutes on a cookie sheet in your oven and, presto, your creation shrinks to 44% of its original size. You get six sheets of Shrinky Dinks® plastic in this boo...

Hairy Maclary and his friends go for a walk and meet tough tomcat Scarface Claw.

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life--which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job--Craig studies ni...

The final Sweep collection! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch - the last of an unbroken line of ancient and powerful witches. Though her magick is strong and she has done things that others could never dream of, even she cannot begin to explain how different she truly is. And though her soulmate - he...

Very young children will love lifting the flaps and following the search for Spot in this special board book version of his first and most famous adventure.

What's life on the police beat like, really? Retired cop Bill O'Brien takes the readers into the daily work lives of members of the New Zealand Police Force, with gripping tales of being on duty in the various branches of the police. Blue Adrenalin goes behind the scenes: we hear directly from t...

A new book in the brilliant Which? series by Andrew Crowe. A book that makes it simple to identify a spider and learn about its lifestyle. All spiders commonly seen in New Zealand will be covered - native and introduced. Which New Zealand Spider will be full of detail and include the author's tradem...

Children can enjoy their favourite story time and time again with this brilliant picture book and CD set. Far, far away in the high, high mountains in a deep, deep valley in a dark, dark cave - there lived a mighty dragon. He was an awesome and frightening creature, terrorising whole armies, destroy...

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician." This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear ...

Six Roald Dahl favourites come together in this very special box set: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator", "Danny the Champion of the World", "George's Marvellous Medicine", "The BFG", and, "The Twits"...

The fourth Sweep collection! Morgan Rowlands had thought her foes were defeated, but demons from the past still haunt her and her beloved, Hunter. Their magick is strong, but the darkness that torments them threatens to overwhelm even their love. Yet there is another, whose magick could save, or...

'Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three'. But it's dangerous being a Stick Man. A dog wants to play with him, a swan builds her nest with him. He even ends up on a fire! Join Stick Man on his troublesome journey back to the family tree. Accolade...

"Amanda Hocking is an indie publishing sensation whose self-published novels have sold millions of copies all over the world. Step into the world of the Trylle, and prepare to be enchanted...." When Wendy Everly first discovers the truth about herself--that she's a changeling switched at birth--she ...

Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand …' But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an ...

23 basic knots and one rope trick in a wonderful little book that tells you everything you need to know about knots in your daily life. Think you know already? Read this book and think again. How to tie the world's most useful hitches, ties, wraps and knots - a step-by-step manual.  The...

 If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by...

Contains a Zac Power Test Drive title, a colouring and activity book and a complete stationery set, all packed into a cool re-usable Zac Power case!

A wonderful new edition of this classic Kiwi take on the 12 Days of Christmas. Illustrations by New Zealand’s iconic Dick Frizzell. Features a sing-along CD, which will ensure this continues to be the Kiwi kids’ book for Christmas.

A beautiful boxed set of the complete Harry Potter series in the adult jacket paperback editions. The books are presented spine-up inside a full-colour, flip top box. All seven Harry Potter titles - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret...

The situation at the London Institute has never been more precarious. With Mortmain and his clockwork army still threatening, the Council wants to strip Charlotte of her power and hand the running of the Enclave over to the unscrupulous and power-hungry Benedict Lightwood. In the hope of saving...

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishi...

As featured in the first year set texts reading list in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an extensive introduction to the magical beasts that exist in the magical, non-Muggle world. Some of the animals featured in the A-Z you will have already met ...

Stefan and Damon thought they knew evil. But nothing compares to Samuel, the ruthless vampire hell-bent on avenging Katherine's death by destroying the Salvatore brothers. Reeling from Samuel's latest attack, Stefan and Damon find help in the most unlikely of places - a secret coven of witches. Toge...

"Puff, the Magic Dragon" is simply one of the most beloved songs of all time--a classic that's become as much a part of the childhood experience as Mother Goose and fairy tales. Yet singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow and co-composer Lenny Lipton have never allowed a picture book adaptation of this magic...

This is one of the most highly acclaimed comic book stories of recent times launching as a stunning full colour graphic novel series. When the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone - are run out of Boneville thanks to Phoney Bone's greedy scheming, they have no idea what advent...

Join Dora and Boots on a quest to sketch animals for a school project. Press 3 sound buttons to hear each animal.

This boxed set contains five of the most enchanting stories from the Fancy Nancy I Can Read series: "Fancy Nancy at the Museum, Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris, Fancy Nancy Sees Stars, Poison Ivy Expert" and "The Dazzling Book Report." The box has a closure and plastic handles...

This is the well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world. Author Biography Roald Dahl, the best-love...

Grandpa decides it's time to clean out his shed. When Grandma offers to help, he tells her that it shouldn't take long. Grandpa didn't realise that he had a lot of stuff in his shed, and that it will take him more than a day to clean it all up. Suggested level: junior, primary.

A wonderful gift, featuring five of the hilarious classics that made Dr. Seuss one of the best-loved children’s authors: * The Cat in the Hat * The Cat in the Hat Comes Back * Green Eggs and Ham * Fox in Socks * How the Grinch Stole Christmas. With his unique combination of hilari...

Love, blood, betrayal and revenge - the stakes are higher than ever in the fourth book in the bestselling "Mortal Instruments" sequence. The Mortal War is over and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhu...

The next exciting instalment in the bestselling House of Night series. The latest instalment from the ever-scandalous House of Night sees Zoey and Stevie Rae trying to restore some order to their complex lives. But is that ever possible in the dark world of the House of Night vampyres

Another rollicking Marmaduke Duck adventure in which Marmaduke meets his match! Marmaduke sets up shop and does a roaring trade selling his much-feted marmalade ...then along comes Bernadette Bear who opens a honey shop next door, and takes all Marmaduke's business! What will he do? A delightful sto...

Strong feelings are hard to cope with at any age. But they are particularly difficult for small children, who have no experience or perspective. They may not even have the words to express what they're going through. This work is suitable for ages 3 and above.

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch,...

Every fan's dream - the definitive guide to all six out-of-this-universe films See Unique cut-away views of lightsabres, blasters, Wookie weapons and a stormtrooper's helmet The inner workings of General Grievous and C-3PO Discover Boba Fett's secret weapons Darth Vader's terrible orig...

Celebrate 70 years of Marvel Comics with "The Marvel Encyclopedia"! Fully updated with new images and text, this one-volume encyclopedia contains more than 1,000 of Marvel's greatest-from well-known characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Wolverine to lesser known heroes and villains. An esse...

A strange imprisonment... Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the ter...

For three years and eight months Felix has lived in a convent orphanage high in the mountains of Poland. He is different from the other orphans, though, as Felix is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one day come back to get him. But instead, the orphanage is visited by a group...

Meet Cat … and his colourful collection of pyjamas. One pair for each night of the week. When he wears his space pyjamas, he dreams of Saturn, Mars and shooting stars, when he wears his road pyjamas, he dreams of big red rigs and diggers that dig … but what will happen when he we...