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Mona Minim and the smell of the sun / Janet Frame -- Learning to read / Cilla McQueen -- Flora and the strawberry red birthday party / Ronda Armitage -- Eeling / Kelly Haitana -- Grandpa's day / Ellena Ashley -- Beside the Wairoa sea bar / Anita Hodgson-Windsor -- The frog search / Julia Crouth -- Ragamuffin scarecrow / Ruth Dallas -- The stone owl / Peter Bland -- Jeevie / Jillian Squire -- Brenda's planetary holiday / Tina Shaw -- How the horse latitudes got their name / Jack Lasenby -- My story below the mountains / Jean Bennett -- Little duck checks it out / Grey Armstrong -- The tree witches / Gwenda Turner -- Hector and Old bear / Dorothy Butler -- Flood / Hone Tuwhare -- The pet whale / Katerina Mataira -- Sophie's taniwha / Rayma Ritchie -- No-one went to town / Phyllis Jonston -- When the kehua calls / Kingi McKinnon -- Ratso / Lorraine Ormond -- The legend of the kea / Philiip Temple -- Pioneers, 1850 / Bernard Gadd -- I'm telling on you / Sandy McKay -- Mum said it's late / Pauline Cartwright -- The apple tree / Lynley Dodd -- Porcellus, the flying pig / Judy Corbalis -- Apple / Lauris Edmond -- The fleas eat out / Jane Buxton -- In and out the windows / Peggy Dunstan -- The wind between the stars / Margaret Mahy -- Drifting / Patricia Grace -- The sea-child and his kite / Ron Bacon -- Chewing gum trip / Diane Hebley -- Annie & Moon / Miriam Smith -- Grandpa's shorts / Joy Watson -- Maria and the money / Rachel McAlpine -- The world around the corner / Maurice Gee -- Superbrain / John Parker.
A collection of popular children's stories and poems by New Zealand writers. Includes picture books, poems, short stories and extracts from novels.