Young Kids
Learning is Like Riding a Bicycle
Philip Martin
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A delightful short tale on how learning new things is much like riding a bike.
Spring 2025 / RRP $25 216 × 216 mm / 40 pages / 145 words ISBN 978-1-0670286-3-3 |
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Making Math Add Up
Maggie Tu
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Maggie's philosophy is "make maths not suck!", and she has succeeded with this colourful, fun, clear, and mathematically sound approach to teaching mathematics.
Instead of teaching fragments of topics artificially divided by the age of the learner Maggie has started at the beginning for each topic and systematically gone through each stage, thereby showing that what is taught over subsequent years in the schooling system can be taught quickly, easily and pain free using this system. Maggie's book is ideal for both the student who has (allegedly) "fallen behind" and those who are excelling and are "ahead" for their year, i.e. all levels can pick up this book, find the stage at which they feel comfortable and start working from there. Students can start at the beginning of each chapter and do the easier exercises quickly as revision or jump straight to the difficult questions. This book encourages independent learning and has been peer-reviewed by teachers and students alike. The specialist font makes this resource accessible to all learners. Maggie's book is, we believe, the only maths book which is printed in a dyslexia-friendly font. This font's features include such things as being weighted at the bottom and each letter is unique to prevent flipping (i.e., of p, b, d, q); the zero and letter "O" are different, as are the number 1 and the lower-case l (L) and uppercase I to avoid confusion; regular spacing between letters and left alignment, etc. All of these help al readers, but especially those with dyslexia.
This maths book is also available in the larger A4 size to help those children who require larger fonts to read or those who simply enjoy holding a larger book. Spring 2023 / RRP $30 52 × 229 mm / 168 pages ISBN 978-1-7385926-0-9 LARGE PRINT edition Spring 2023 / RRP $40 210 × 297 mm / 168 pages ISBN 978-1-7385926-2-3 |
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The Henhouse
Philip Martin
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A charming story about Andrew and his hens. He needs to put them in the henhouse each night, but Andrew soon grows bored of doing that and pops them in a different room each day of the week. He puts them in the laundry, kitchen, playroom. Where else will he put them?
Autumn 2025 / RRP $21 216 × 216 mm / 26 pages/173 words ISBN 978-1-0670286-4-0 |
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Wheels
Madden Hay
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Kids who love all things to do with bicycles will love this fun rhyming story about wheels. Great for adults and children to read together or for early readers. Includes topics of building resilience, counting, and noticing similarities that can be expanded upon in conversation. The dyslexia-friendly font makes the story accessible to all readers.
Spring 2025 / RRP $17 165 × 165 mm / 30 pages / 36 words ISBN 978-1-0670286-6-4 |
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My Dad
Anneke Gerbrands & Ingrid Kamp
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My dad is a beautifully illustrated simple story about a kid and their dad. Its short, simple sentences and use of dyslexia friendly font make it suitable for young readers, but its full page colourful illustrations also make it attractive to toddlers.
My Dad is written by Anneke Gerbrands and uses New Zealand English making it ideal for dads and kids to read together. Each full page vibrant illustration was lovingly hand drawn by artist Ingrid Kamp. Winter 2021 / RRP $15 148 × 210 mm / 20 pages ISBN 978-0-473-58680-5 Parents, libraries, & schools: For free activities (colouring, drawing, writing) please click on the button below. |
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Teens & Young Adults
An Unlikely Academic
Jerry Mushin
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This book will be of interest to teenagers or young adults about to enter tertiary education.
Many of us think we know how universities function but, in An Unlikely Academic, a retired lecturer describes what really happens (or what happened to him). He explains recurring themes in the life of academic institutions and shows how these have evolved since he was a student in the 1960s. This is not merely an entertaining romp through academic life, it is also a thought‑provoking read. Summer 2025 / RRP $30 27 × 203 mm / 160 pages / RRP $30 / ISBN 978-1-0670286-2-6 |
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Oracles & Miracles & Zombies
Stevan Eldred-Grigg & Helen Mae Innes
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The time between the two World Wars was dominated by poverty and pandemic. The virus which surfaced in 1918 turned the infected into biters and hunches, and the later 'cure' turned biters into lurkers. But who is the most dangerous?
Biters: Biters have been infected by a virus and want to eat your brains. They don't talk much but they'll eat your ear off. Hunches: Hunches have been infected but don't chase you down the street. They're slow and hunched over but mostly harmless. Just keep them fed. Lurkers: The government discovered a 'cure' which turns biters into lurkers. Lurkers are passive, quiet, and a cheap source of labour. Uninfected: There's not much life in the biters but it's not much of a life for the uninfected either. They still have to find money for food, for rent, for barbed wire fences, and for sharp knives. Summer 2023 / RRP $30 127 × 203 mm (5” × 8”) / 328 pages ISBN 978-0-473-66272-1 |
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