Aotearoa New Zealand Books

David Ling is an Auckland-based publisher of both adult and children's books. He created the Duck Creek Press imprint in 2010 and is also the autho...

Children can come up with some pretty funny questions, and here in this warm and amusing story Grandpa teases his granddaughters with some very unu...

Whole Again

Do fish have ears? How many teeth does a shark have? Are jellyfish made of some kind of jelly? No matter how crazy or quirky your question from the...

Do birds have teeth? How high can a flea jump? Why don't worms have legs? No matter how crazy or quirky your question from the WHICH? to the WHAT? ...

What adult does not delight in engaging with a child when reading a 'look and find' book. Where is it? is an original take on this concept, a New Z...

Breaking open colonisation to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into our colonial history. Linking Gor...

The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list first appeared in 1986. But what do these fig...

In the 1980s, Maurice Shadbolt began to research New Zealand's part in the tragic Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - research which was to lead to his st...

Under the Ocean introduces young children to the creatures that live in the seas around New Zealand. The book describes different habitats: underwa...

Trompet And Trombone

Trompet And Trombone

As new thresholds are breached, acclaimed Radio New Zealand science writer Veronika Meduna explores our future in a warmer world. Beginning with le...

Titiro Ki Nga Mahi Ka Taea E Ahau Look At What I Can Do

Our climate is changing, in ways that will have long-term impacts for us and for our children. Yet still we fail to take meaningful action. Why? An...

For London-based writer Kirsty Gunn, returning to the city of her birth to spend a winter in a tiny colonial cottage in Thorndon is an exciting opp...

A humorous look at the game of golf through verse, cartoons and observations from one of New Zealand's best-loved cartoonists. His earlier book of ...

Claudia Orange's writing on the Treaty of Waitangi has played a central role in national understanding of this foundational document. This fully re...

'If you don't put your toys away the Toy Fairy will take them while you're asleep,' said Dad. Joe knew there was no Toy Fairy, this was just Dad tr...

'If you don't put your toys away the Toy Fairy will take them while you're asleep,' said Dad. Joe knew there was no Toy Fairy, this was just Dad tr...

The Sam & Lucy Fables shares the adventures of two clever pigs, Sam and Lucy, who are always keen to help their human friends in peculiar predi...

"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful ha...

Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that in...

A sumptuous full colour tribute to one of our great winemaking families. In 1916 Josip Babich aged 20 made his first wine from his own grapes at Ka...