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Aunt Effie and the Island That Sank

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775531244
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Effie and the Island That Sank written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third, crazy, Spike Milliganesque story in the hilarious Aunt Effie series for junior readers. Aunt Effie is restless. She and her 26 nieces and nephews are off again in the scow Margery Daw on a treasure hunt across the pirate-infested waterways of the Hauraki Gulf and The Waikato. However boat and crew become marvellously sidetracked: the scow is converted into a travelling cowshed for cross-country travel; a hot-pool swim makes the little ones go bendy; the race between Banana Bob's Model T Ford and Uncle Chris's Stanley Steamer is fraught with high-jinks and skulduggery. Meanwhile back in Auckland, One Tree Hill has sprung a leak and Rangitoto Island is sinking while the Prime Minister gambles away the nation's taxes in the Casino Tower. In this third Aunt Effie travelogue, Jack Lasenby creates another glorious, crazy kaleidoscope of time, place and circumstance.

Aunt Effie and Mrs Grizzle

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1869796497
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Effie and Mrs Grizzle written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonderful, funny junior fiction for children from talented storyteller Jack Lasenby. Ideal for reading aloud, this deliciously wicked romp with Aunt Effie and her crew is guaranteed to entertain and astonish. At every opportunity, the capricious Aunt Effie takes to her beloved bed, and enchants her twenty-six nieces and nephews and six enormous pig dogs with tall tales of beguiling proportions. Enter Mrs Grizzle, a red-haired, doublejointed magician. Nothing is as it seems, and we encounter edible gunpowder, monster pukekos, Pookackodiles and Krockapooks, and is this a removable glass eye? How will Aunt Effie wrap up the captivating story of Mrs Grizzle? And where is the lost treasure?

Grandad's Wheelies

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1743487304
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Grandad's Wheelies written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there's no technology or modern distractions at all. But he still likes to visit, because Grandad and Granny tell him stories - each trying to outdo the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. Did you ever hear about the dragon of Waitemata harbour? Or the bridge between the North and South islands? Or why the Beehive is round in shape - and who REALLY made the Marlborough Sounds? And then there's the pumpkin larger than a garden shed, and a wheelbarrow that converts into a boat for a seasick kangaroo. There are lost false teeth, eels and the ingenious invention of the world's first rotary clothesline helicopter . . . and a flying train that touches down at the station in Nelson. With equally wild watercolour illustrations throughout by Bob Kerr, Grandad's Wheelies is a hilarious, rollicking yarn stitching together a picture of life in New Zealand a couple of generations back that is just about true. Jack can't get enough of his Grandad and Granny's stories - and readers young and old will love them too!

Billy and Old Smoko

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775531198
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Billy and Old Smoko written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very funny, must-read-aloud yarn for junior readers about the fantastical adventures of a talking horse and a boy looking for his mother. Billy wakes one morning to find his mother gone and the house in control of a strange woman burning the porridge. According to Billy, his father has gone all lackadaisical. So it’s Old Smoko, a well-spoken Clydesdale farm-horse, who takes Billy to school each day and teaches him to read. Together Billy and Old Smoko go in search of Billy’s real mum under the Kaimai Ranges, out the back of Waharoa. They meet a queen disguised as the Rawleighs Man, cannibal eels and man-eating Captain Cookers, but even they cannot prevail against a boy and his horse, especially when they have both read the mythology section of the School Journal. Billy learns the secret of Mount Te Aroha, hears the ancient Maori story of Snow White, and sees how Auckland got its electricity. He goes pig hunting, plays footy, discovers roast pork and apple sauce sandwiches – and falls in love with the blue eyes of Harrietta. Written by one of New Zealand's wittiest and most original and delightfully anarchic storytellers fior children, this book is guaranteed to make the world a better place for those who believe in the value of friendship.

When Mum Went Funny

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 177553118X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book When Mum Went Funny written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's war-time and Dad's away, so Mum has to run the farm. Sometimes the stress of it all gives her funny ideas, in this hilarious tale by a much-loved, award-winning junior fiction author. ‘You wait till Constable Cuff hears about this ... We’re going to tell everybody in the district you sold your children for sixpence.’ In When Mum Went Funny, the cry of mothers everywhere is heard loud and clear. Ideas like trying to sell off the children, making nail soup and sleeping out in a haystack to catch whoever’s ‘bandicooting’ the potatoes. When Mum gets that look in her eye, the children go on high alert. They watch Kate, to see how worried they should be, because Kate, the eldest, is an even match for her Mother. Their frequent battles of wit and will-power keeps everyone entertained. In spite of Mum’s tricks and grumbles, she never loses control; the children know they can rely on her, even as they try to frustrate her at every turn. Mum’s mischievous tugging at the rug under her children’s feet provides lots of delicious fun and fretful anxiety. In this gently comic novel, Lasenby draws a heart-warming but unsentimental portrait of a family and community under duress, and of a mother who channels her exasperations into inventive ploys that not only help save her own sanity, but also bring grist and intrigue to family life.

The Writers Directory

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aunt Effie

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877135729
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Effie written by Jack Lasenby and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Aunt Effie! Our Aunt Effie adored being ill. Best of all she liked colds, flu, and the collywobbles she got after eating green apples. Real illnesses she ignored until they gave up and sneaked away, but a runny nose, a stubbed toe, or a pimple, and she popped on her heavy green canvas invalid's pyjamas, jumped into bed, and bellowed for her nephews and nieces. And, since she could never remember which one of us was which, she called all our names. " Daisy-Mabel-Johnny-Flossie-Lynda-Stan-Howard-Marge-Stuarta Aunt Effie is the first of a new series of books by Jack Lasenby about Aunt Effie, her six gigantic pig dogs, her twenty-six nephews and nieces, their adventures in the kauri forests of the Coromandel and fighting off pirates in the Hauraki Gulf. A rollicking adventure with plenty of outrageous yarns and salty humour.

The New Zealand Official Year-book

Author : New Zealand. Department of Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year-book written by New Zealand. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aunt Effie's Ark

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 177553121X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Effie's Ark written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the hilarious and outrageous 'Aunt Effie' series for junior readers. Aunt Effie, dressed in her green canvas invalid's pyjamas, hibernates all winter, leaving her 26 resourceful nieces and nephews to deal with snowstorm and flood, ravening monsters, a barnful of hungry animals and a wild ark-ride over the Vast Untrodden Ureweras. Among the comic cast of cousins are Daisy, whose primness puckers the mouth, Alwyn, who echoes and 'backwardises' the most emphatic statements, and Jack, a junior version of Jack-the-deer-culler Lasenby. There's a horse who acts as a dubiously qualified doctor, a gander who causes the ark to roll, and cows with insomnia - snoring in tune. With his trademark embellishments and wonderful blend of humour, excitement and wacky fun, award-winning writer Jack Lasenby has created another story of mayhem and delight.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: Smad-Zwer, index

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature: Smad-Zwer, index written by Jack Zipes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of its history, children's literature has been overlooked or looked down on by scholars. But in recent years children's literature has assumed greater importance, as literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, and historians have begun to discover what children and parents have known for centuries: that this is a literature of extraordinary richness, depth, and delight. The Encyclopedia captures and elucidates this richness in four volumes and 3,200 signed entries. It offers comprehensive coverage of children's literature, from medieval chapbooks of moral instruction for children to J. K. Rowling's immensely popular Harry Potter books. Unlike other references, the Encyclopedia not only documents but also interprets every work, major and minor, that has played a role in the history of children's literature in the world. General essays illuminate prominent trends, themes, genres, and the traditions of children's literature in many countries. In addition, the Encyclopedia provides biographies of important writers, as well as extensive coverage of illustrators with numerous examples of their work. Sociocultural developments such as the impact of toys, films, animation, the Internet, literacy, libraries and librarians, censorship, the multicultural expansion of the field, and other issues related to the appreciation and dissemination of children's literature are also addressed. While the Encyclopedia concentrates on the tradition known best by its readership, it also covers the international development of children's literature and offers an unprecedented treatment of works from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, African countries, and other nations. Its over 800 distinguished contributors come from around the world and include such renowned scholars and writers as Gillian Avery, Peter Hunt, Klaus Doderer, Hansa Heino Ewers, Jean Perrot, Denise Escarpit, Brian Alderson, and Betsy Gould Hearne. A-Z organization, accessible writing, plentiful illustrations, cross-references, bibliographies, a comprehensive index and a systematic outline make the Encyclopedia an invaluable and easy-to-use research reference.

American Book Publishing Record

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review Index

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

A Child of the Sea

Author : Elizabeth Whitney Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Child of the Sea written by Elizabeth Whitney Williams and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on Beaver Island and at other places near Lake Michigan, with an account of the "Mormon kingdom" on Beaver Island.

The children's poetry book

Author : Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The children's poetry book written by Children and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harry Wakatipu

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : John McIndoe
ISBN 13 : 9780868681559
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Harry Wakatipu written by Jack Lasenby and published by John McIndoe. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of stories about Harry Wakatipu, the worst, laziest pack-horse who's ever lived. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

Prominent Families of New York

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travellers #1: Because We Were The Travellers

Author : Jack Lasenby
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775532305
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Travellers #1: Because We Were The Travellers written by Jack Lasenby and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the exciting Travellers series — a young adult fantasy story of survival against the odds in a fearful futuristic world. In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames towards the western horizon. As the sky turns fiery, figures appear in the landscape: a boy, limping, accompanied by an old woman. Cast out from their tribe they make the journey alone, away from the sun's rage, away from the deserts of the north, toward the southern lands. This is Ish's tale, a tale of rejection, of survival against the odds, of growing up in an age when much is feared, and few can be trusted. Written by one of New Zealand's most awarded writers for children and teens.