Best Selling Leisure interests, hobbies & sport Books

The only 100% fully OFFICIAL Annual. Forget the rest, this is THE One Direction Annual of the year! Written in collaboration with the boys, this is the only annual to include exclusive interviews, up to the minute news and info, and never before seen photos. Find out straight from the boys themselv...

The much-loved Edmonds 'junior' cookbooks have now been fully updated with 20 brand-new recipes. All are easy to prepare and, with simple step-by-step instructions, great for learning to cook. Not only do kids and beginner-cooks want fun foods - they want to have fun making the recipes. Every pag...

Inside this fantastic Rainbow Magic Annual there are activities to enjoy, games to play, profiles featuring all of your favourite fairy friends, and much more! The perfect gift for every fairy fan.

Based on the awesome online world of Moshi Monsters, this "Pick Your Path" book allows you to become your monster and explore Monstro City in this exciting adventure. Decide where the story takes you and how it will end! There's something strange going on in Monstro City. The Underground Disco has g...

Once you start making Shrinky Dinks, you never want to stop. With these five sheets of ready-to-decorate plastic, you can draw designs, cut them out, pop them in the oven and -- presto -- your art shrinks into mini-masterpieces. It's everything you need to keep shrinking, and shrinking, and shrinkin...

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...

Like any muscle, the brain needs exercise, and this is just the thing to get young minds pumping! With more than 100 fiendish puzzles divided into four sections-mental, word, number, and memory challenges-each brainteaser has a time limit to challenge users. "Brainbusting Tips" are sprinkled through...

Filled with funnies and jam-packed with jokes, this hilarious Moshi Monsters joke book will tickle you and your monster and have you splitting your sides with laughter! It is presented with over 230 monster-tickling jokes submitted by you.

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...

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...

The case file is open...There's a crime wave in the city: robbery, fraud, arson, and murder. A super sleuth is needed. Someone who can comb through the clues, sift the evidence, and crack the case. This is a job for YOU! Head up 4 exciting cases from robbery to murder. Find criminal fingerprints...

For everyone who loves paper dolls, here's an irresistible treat--Madeline and Pepito, straight from the old house in Paris, with outfits for school, party time and play. Featuring two punch-out dolls and six pages of cut-out clothes and accessories, there's even a very French armoire to keep clothe...

This illustrated guide that helps you find out simply and accurately Which seashell is it? It includes life-size colour photographs of over130 seashells including, for each shell, their size, colour and where to find them and the ecology of the living shellfish. Discover also the known uses...

t's Farmer Brown's birthday, and the animals are deciding what they'll do for him on his special day. ""Cluck I will give him eggs," said the hen. / Said the rooster, "I'll wake him in the mornings, then." / "Baa-aa, we'll give him wool," said the sheep. / "...

This excellent book focuses on insects only, not on other invertebrates (spiders, centipedes, worms, snails, slugs, etc) as in the best-selling Life-Size Guide to Insects published in August 1999. Unlike the Life-Size Guide, this book identifies smaller insects on large panels, and includes a comple...

Introducing our 2008 collection - Paper Fashions Fancy. This season it's all about glamour. Paper fashions get glam! As with our Paper Fashions book, young designers get to turn colorful paper, ribbons, beads, sequins, and jewels into glamorous fashions and accessories. But with Paper Fashions F...

Beginning readers will be captivated by the eye-catching DK photographs and plenty of word repetition to help build their confidence. Launched in the spring, this exciting learning-to-read program combines DK's highly visual, non-fiction Eyewitness style with engaging, age-appropriate stories to hel...

"If the rarest bird in the world can be rescued, then given human determination and effort, no species need become extinct." Dr Don Merton This moving and beautiful book, written and magnificently illustrated by Mary Taylor, is the story of the efforts of Dr Don Merton and the New Zeala...

How well do you know Biebs? Are you his number one fan? Find out. The Justin Bieber Annual 2012 includes everything you need to know about Justin Bieber - his likes, who he hangs out with when he's not singing to his millions of fans, what he thinks about love and what he's got lined up for 2012. Te...

This awesome annual is bursting with brilliant comics, games and activities about all your favourite LEGO® ranges, including LEGO® CITY, LEGO® Kingdoms and the awesome new ninja theme, LEGO® Ninjago! With LEGO® bricks to build and play with too, this is the perfect Christmas gift for LEGO® fans!

From beautiful teapot biscuits to gorgeous marzipan roses, Japanese lunchboxes to kids’ sangria, whether you are cooking for a classy party or for a picnic, the easy step-by-step instructions and stunning photos will help you to create unique masterpieces in the kitchen! Seasoned food writer Ales...

The bestselling team of Fernyhough and Bougen (The Road to Castle Hill: A High Country Love Story ) are back with a wonderful book for children that's bound to become a classic. It is the true story of Ben and Mark Smith, aged eight and six, who live with their parents Richard and Sheri on Mount Whi...

How does an acorn grow into a tree? What does a baby sea horse eat? You can discover the amazing stages of different life cycles and learn all about your favourite species with this stunning series. It features beautiful photography of development stages, and a bright, vibrant design. It covers vari...

Zack Freeman (and his butt) have twice saved the world from total reek-dom. But now the young butt-fighter faces his nastiest challenge yet: Hundreds of thousands of Great White Butts attacking the earth with giant brown blobs are about to cause Buttageddon. In order to stop them, Zack will have to ...

Reveal, explore, and celebrate the fascinating LEGO® story in The LEGO® Book. From its beginnings in a carpenter's workshop and the development of the first plastic brick, to the group's current position as an international brand, a timeline highlights key moments in LEGO® history. F...

Kaka may be the greatest soccer player in the world. His skills are unmatched on the field. Fernando Torres can score goals almost at will. And players rarely get a ball past Gigi Buffon. Whether you like offense, defense, or goal tending, the games greatest stars can show you how its done.

Ingenious rat detective Inspector Rockfort has an invitation for all young sleuths: join him on a treasure hunt. A dozen precious pieces have just been snatched from the city museum. Where could the missing valuables be? Rockfort is determined to find out, as he interviews all the shopkeepers on the...

A child listens to Koro and Grandma as they weave a tale about the life and times of the ancient puriri tree Taketakerau, the settlement and development of otearoa New Zealand, and world events over the last 2000 years.Author BiographyMarnie Anstis and her husband Peter own and run a farm and kiwif...

From board maintenance and ollies to vert skating and grinds, this book uses bite-sized instructions and killer original photography to introduce young readers to the action-packed world of skateboarding. Full color.

At first glance, it might seem that the average New Zealand garden is not the best place to find wildlife - but look again. Bugs and ants are climbing trees while geckos wait in the foliage for their lunch, hedgehogs are sleeping in the back hedge and spiders are getting kicked out of their homes by...

This is the ideal book for the youngest All Blacks fans of all. This durable board book is in the shape of a rugby ball and is the perfect introduction to New Zealand's favourite sports team.

Smuggle in some muggle magic with The Unofficial Harry Potter Muggles To Magic Cookbook. Inside this new and improved edition of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes To Butterbeer, you will find all things sugary to satisfy your sweet tooth, including Ron's Love Spell Sugar ...

"DK Readers" will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about butterflies. Encourage your child to read. They will discover about the magical changes in store for a tiny caterpillar as he turns into a beautiful butterfly. "DK Readers" are part of a f...

With 365 puzzles, this bumper "Moshi Monster Daily Challenge" book will keep you guessing all year round! Featuring all the trickiest activities from the "Puzzle Palace" plus crosswords, word searches and more, you'll be Furi-flummoxed! It includes exclusive virtual gift for your room! Adopt your ow...

In the Klutz paper fashions tradition, this book comes with everything girls need to design an entire one-of-a-kind wardrobe, including irresistibly tiny hangers to finish the fashions in style. Unique to this book, though, are fashions that are the stuff of fantasy: goddess gowns, pretty princess d...

"DK Readers" will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst finding out about garden wildlife. Encourage your child to read. They'll meet a dragonfly with giant wings and see a buzzy bee drinking from a flower petal, whilst discovering all about their favorite ga...

From amazing Aristotle, to dithering Darwin, to incredible Isaac,and courageous Curie - they're all in "Suffering Scientists"! This is "The Horrible Science Guide" to the most influential scientists in history. Readers will discover brilliant breakthroughs, explosive experiments - and some feeble fa...

Kids are fascinated by dinosaurs, and love the idea of the fossils they have left behind. New Zealand has a rich fossil record which is accessible to the amateur fossil-hunter in locations around New Zealand, including shells and plant remains as well as the bones, teeth and other remnants of ancien...

Test your brain power with over 200 fun mind-twisting puzzles from Mensa, the club for clever people. This book features visual puzzles, missing-letter games, logic problems and other tricky brain busters. Arranged in three levels of difficulty: Easy - Super Brain; Medium - Mega Mind; Hard - Ultra G...