The Butterfly Fluttered By
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The stunning Chatham Island red admiral butterfly takes to the sky to discover insects found nowhere else in the world. With realistic, eye-catching illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text, The Butterfly Fluttered By celebrates the importance of insects through a playful game of hide and seek.
Read along with Suzy Cato:
“A great first story for 2025 and the summer holidays in Aotearoa!”
Suzy Cato | TreehutTV
Ten Nosey Weka
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Learn the numbers one to 10 in ta rē Moriori, te reo Māori, and English in a tale the whole family will enjoy. Ten Nosey Weka is the first children's counting book to feature the Moriori language. It showcases the similarities between New Zealand's two indigenous languages and includes a brief history of ta rē Moriori, as well as 10 weka facts, and a counting game that highlights Rēkohu fauna.
One Weka Went Walking
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With plenty of rhyme and repetition, the award-winning
One Weka Went Walking is a great read-aloud book that will make bed-time both entertaining and educational. Follow along as the curious weka meets some of New Zealand's most endangered birds, discovering how much heavier the parea
is than the kererū and which seabird was once considered to be extinct.
