Aroha's Way
by Craig Phillips
Wildling Books, 2019
ISBN 978-0-473-47080-7
Format: 210mm x 225mm, soft cover, 36 pages
Come along on a journey with Aroha as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying thoughts and apprehension with simple, yet effective tools that everyone can use.
Produced with the assistance of The Mental Health Foundation, New Zealand.
Rights: World ex NZ
Blue Little Penguin
by Norah Wilson
Blue Goat Books, 2019
ISBN 978-0-473-46905-4
Format: 210mm x 210 mm, soft cover, 24 pages
When Little Penguin is sad, he is comforted by Ruru the Owl who holds his hand throughout the day. This is a simple story of feelings and friendship.
Rights: World ex NZ
Hare
by Deborah Hinde
Picture Book Publishing, 2016
ISBN 978-0-473-36294-2
Format: 240mm x 250 mm, soft cover, 32 pages
Poor old Hare has forgotten something important and visits his friends to see if they can help him at all.
Rights: World ex NZ
Hollybee Hope wants a Prickly Coat
by Deborah Hinde
Picture Book Publishing, 2018
ISBN 978-0-473-43377-2
Hollybee Hope is a small hedgehog with a big problem, she doesn’t have any spines. Her father tells her to be patient, but Hollybee wants spines right now!
Rights: World ex NZ
Scary Tales. Rhymes for Brave Children
by Judi Billcliff
illustrated by Deborah Hinde
Picture Book Publishing, 2019
ISBN 978-0-473-48304-3
A selection of slightly scary twisted versions of familiar nursery rhymes.
Rights: World ex NZ
My New Red Car
by David Minty
David Minty Books, 2019
ISBN 978-4-475-47158-3
Format: 240mm x 250 mm, paperback, 40 pages
Two friends discover a trail of destruction as they search for their missing car.
Rights: World ex NZ
Body-Hopping Hysterics
by Tom E. Moffatt
illustrated by Paul Beavis
Write Laugh, 2019
ISBN 978-0-9951210-0-3
Format: 203mm x 127 mm, paperback, 266 pages
Not all superpowers are a good thing, especially not if your mum has the, or if they’re fuelled by embarrassment. And what if you can’t find your way back home?
Rights: World ex NZ
Tūī Street Heroes
by Anne Kayes
Wildling Books, 2019
ISBN 978-0-47348971-7
Format: 198 mm x 129 mm, paperback, 284 pages
The Tūī Street kids are writing Hero’s Journey stories at school, but soon find themselves involved in adventures more difficult that they could ever have imagined.
Rights: World ex NZ
Mind-Swapping Madness
by Tom E Moffatt
illustrated by Paul Beavis
Write Laugh, 2018
ISBN 978-0-473-42485-5
Format: 203 x 127 mm, paperback, 239 pages.
A boy in a fly’s body, another in his baby sister’s body, are just two of the situations in this collection of crazy stories where mind-swapping in many forms is possible. These are fun, wacky, scary stories that middle-grade readers will enjoy.
Rights: World ex NZ
Because Everything is Right but Everything is Wrong
by Erin Donohue
Format: 200 mm x 130 mm, paperback, 174 pages
Can you be lost and not know it? Can other people stop you from being lost? Seventeen-year-old Caleb’s world is disintegrating, his walls are closing in, his sky is threatening to fall. He’s barely holding on. To deadlines. To friends. To family. To mum. To Pat. But he has Casey. Maybe she can save him...
Shortlisted for the Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction and Best First Book in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2018.
Rights: World ex NZ
Brain Tricks
by Rose Stanley
illustrated by Lisa Allen
Cheeky Dragon Collaborations, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-473-47462-1
Format: 24mm x 25mm, paperback, 32 pages
Brain Tricks aids children’s understanding of emotional pain, what it is and how it differs from physical pain. It offers strategies to help them change the way they think about and react to different experiences.
Rights: World ex NZ
Bumblebees Have Smelly Feet
by Rachel Weston
Weston Books, 2019
ISBN 978-0-473-48296-1
Format 215mm x 215mm, Paperback, 32 pages
Fascinating facts about bumblebees, how their bodies work, their super power eyesight, life cycle and how readers can help this insect survive.
Rights: World ex NZ