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  • My Tiger

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by David Barrow ...
    My tiger loved cake, and I went with him to the cake shop. Then he got a bad tooth, so I went with him to the dentist.My tiger didn’t like sitting in the waiting room, climbing onto the dentist chair, or being told by the dentist what to eat. Especially when she said no more cake!What’s a tiger supposed to eat?A bossy adult is made to look silly and a charming tiger wins the reader’s heart in this ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Holy Days

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Brian s mother has gone to be with the saints and he misses her terribly. He finds a little haven at the local convent and becomes indispensable to the three remaining nuns. As the unlikely friendship between the young boy and the elderly women deepens, the nuns dream up a wonderful treat for Brian – to take him hundreds of miles south, to play in the snow. Memories of his special holiday with ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Twigs and Stones

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by Gavin Bishop ...
    Three small words can cause trouble between friends.Snake and Lizard live together in a burrow in the desert. They are such good friends that Lizard decides to display their names above the burrow entrance.They must decide whose name should appear first. Then Lizard makes an unfortunate spelling mistake—he thinks it's very funny but Snake is not laughing. Snake finds some spelling of her own that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Classical Music

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Delia and Bea: sisters, but never close. Delia lives a glamorous life in New York and Bea lives thousands of miles away in New Zealand, looking after elderly parents and playing the role of dutiful daughter. Delia and Bea both long for the warmth and intimacy of sisterhood, but it always eludes them. When Delia rushes home for their father's funeral there is an opportunity to spend some time ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Navigation: A Memoir

    A Memoir

    by Joy Cowley ...
    In the world of New Zealand children's books, the name Joy Cowley engenders enormous respect and affection. She has published dozens and dozens of children's trade books of all kinds, such as the Mrs Wishy Washy series, the award-winning Shadrach trilogy and Hunter. And she has written literally hundreds of readers for the international educational book market. She is constantly in demand as a ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, 2nd Edition

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by Miho Satake ...
    This enduring tale of independence and family is an unconventional love story with a strong female lead and a pirate with a sensitive side, written by New Zealand’s leading children’s writer and illustrated by one of Japan’s foremost children’s illustrators.The fierce little woman lived in a house at the end of a jetty. She knitted socks in blue and green wool to sell to sailors who had got their ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Starbright & The Dream Eater

    by Joy Cowley ...
    File note: the advent of sickness is always accompanied by the arrival of a possible cure. There will be born, of human beauty, a child without fear, known as the Bright Star... Dr Jacob Tietz People all over Claircomb are succumbing to a strange illness, thought to be a deadly new virus. But this is no virus - it is a life form so advanced that its intelligence makes a computer look like counting ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Big Moon Tortilla

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by Dyanne Strongbow ...
    Marta Enos is having a bad day. It begins when the wind blows her homework out the window and the dogs chew it to pieces. Her grandmother consoles her with a tortilla as "big and pale as a rising full moon," along with ancient words of advice. This charming story, set on a Papago reservation in southern Arizona near the Mexican border, offers Native American wisdom that helps children--and adults ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Lot of Silly

    A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by David Barrow ...
    Joy Cowley knows what makes children laugh.In this book full of absurd poems and very short, silly stories, a man takes his tadpoles for a walk in his hat, a cat is surprised by its talking feet, a tiger gobbles up a dentist, ten baggy clowns do a do-wacky dance . . . along with many more preposterous flights of imagination. Illustrations by David Barrow—a first-rate visual comedian—expand the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Silent One

    by Joy Cowley ...
    The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Rusty Trusty Tractor

    by Joy Cowley ...
    Illustrated by Olivier Dunrea ...
    Micah's grandfather is convinced that his rusty, trusty, fifty-year-old tractor will make it through another haying season. But Mr. Hill of Hill's Tractor Sales is doing his best to sell him a brand-new tractor. He even wagers twenty jelly doughnuts that Grandpappy's old tractor will break down. Will Grandpappy buy a new tractor to replace his faithful old friend?This charming, multigenerational ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Bow Down Shadrach

    by Joy Cowley ...
    ** Winner of the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year 1990** A classic junior fiction favourite from multi-award winning New Zealand children's author, Joy Cowley.Shadrach is a very old circus-trained Clydesdale horse, and the favourite family pet. When Hannah discovers that Shadrach has been sold to a dog food factory, she decides to mount a heroic rescue and enlists the help of her two ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD