Maori Designs

This book has 100 stunning new designs.  They are original, hand-drawn and copyright-free which means you are able to reproduce them. These illustrations can be combined with other images, or enlarged and used as the main theme for special projects, pictures, panels or paintings. This wonderful resource will fire your imagination and give you all the help you need to create stunning, original works of art.

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The NZ Book

Together the authors present this large format, 140 pages of illustrated overview and synopsis of kiwi culture and  attitudes which includes some interesting facts "New Zealanders eat $1 billion of fast food every year and fish and chips are still a favourite" and observations "the gender divide is seldom more obvious than at the traditional kiwi 'Barbie' where men and women part ways like the Red Sea before Moses" and acknowledgements of Maori and Polynesian culture.

This book has very clever art work and brief notes about subjects as diverse as Maui's big fish, Matariki, Land of the Long Flat White (our coffee obsession), the bach, the state house, the lifestyle block, rubgy, whitebaiting, and much much more .......

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The Famous Five: Five go off in a Caravan

The Famous Five are back!  Can you believe this book (and many more) have been around for 70 years when it just feels like yesterday since we read them. We have have all five 70th Edition in the Children's Fiction Collection in the library - Five on Treasure Island, Five go Adventuring Again, Five Runaway Together, Five go to Smuggler's Top and Five go off in a Caravan. Check out the fabulous new covers but still the original great stories.

 

NZ Curriculum Mathematics Connecting all Strands

They have now printed this copy (level 4A) to connect all the mathematical strands together. You can find all the levels in our library along with this book. Fabulous new layout, easy to read and understand, with references to the Ministry of Education Number Framework and the terminology used in the Ministry's Numeracy Professional Development Project Booklets. A must read for teaching maths today.