Best Children's Nonfiction 2018 : Books, Stories, Poetry and Language - Christchurch City LibrariesLike this list

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• The Ugly Duckling

  Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875

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  A delightful classic by Hans Christian Andersen, retold and complimented with a lovely illustration by Peter Newell.

• The Rainmaker Danced

  Agard, John, 1949-

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  A brand-new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal and the Eleanor Farjeon Award, John Agard pondering life's big questions like 'Do triangles ever get into a tangle when their sides meet their angles?'

• A Day at the Beach

  Includes Māori Vocabulary

  Bixley, Donovan, 1971-

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  Name all the things you can see down by the sea in English and te reo Māori with this vibrant board book from award-winning illustrator Donovan Bixley. See also "Day at the Zoo"

• Speak to Me

  Kōrero Mai. Family

  Chapman, Jenny, 1980-

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  Lovely to have Boards Books that use both Te Reo Māori and Sign language. Other titles available by the same author include " Animals" and "Home"

• 101 Collective Nouns

  Cossins, Jennifer

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  Find words used to describe groups of animals such as 'a flamboyance of flamingoes', 'a wisdom of wombats' and 'a tribe of kiwis'.

• A Treasury of Songs

  Donaldson, Julia, 1948-

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  Full of family favourites to read and listen and sing and enjoy together.

• In the Past

  Elliott, David, 1947-

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  Covering more than 500 million years with wonderfully illustrated poems about trilobites to dinosaurs to mammoths .

• Star Stories

  Ganeri, Anita, 1961-

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  A collection of constellation and sky stories from cultures around the world, beautifully brought to life with striking gilt artwork.

• How Māui Slowed the Sun

  Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016

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  A Board Book edition of this classic from Peter Gossage.

• A Place to Start a Family

  Poems About Creatures That Build

  Harrison, David L. (David Lee), 1937-

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  Beautifully illustrated poems about animals making their homes all around the world.

• An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

  Hoare, Ben

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  A book to treasure, filled with stunning photographs, beautiful illustrations, and fascinating information on all the animals that children love. Discover the incredible stories and myths behind your favorite animals--whether it's how the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen

  the Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl

  Hopkinson, Deborah

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  It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of our greatest writers. She turns ordinary life into extraordinary stories. But before that she was just an ordinary girl growing up in England in the late 1700s.

• A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

  & Other Such Collective Nouns

  Hursthouse, Kate

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  Vibrant illustrations by a New Zealand Artist.

• I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree

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  "I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree", named after the first line of Judith Nicholls' poem 'Windsong', is a large and lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems - one for every day of the year, including leap years. Filled with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Fun Day With Lewis Carroll

  a Celebration of Wordplay and a Girl Named Alice

  Krull, Kathleen, 1952-

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  In this celebration of Lewis Carroll's playful and creative sense of language, Kathleen Krull uses words invented by Carroll himself to tell the story of how Alice's Adventures in Wonderland came to be.

• Can I Touch Your Hair?

  Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

  Latham, Irene

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  When two children are paired up in class they take a little warming up before they become fast friends.

• A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories

  McAllister, Angela

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  Featuring much-loved classics such as The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, each story is rewritten in a comprehensive way that is accessible for children and stunningly illustrated by collage artist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Myth Atlas

  Maps and Monsters, Heroes and Gods From Twelve Mythological Worlds

  Moraes, Thiago de, 1977-

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  The maps in this Atlas are special, They show how 12 extraordinary cultures see the world. Includes a map showing a selection of the gods of the Polynesian World.

• Vivid

  Poems & Notes About Color

  Paschkis, Julie

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  Playful poems and facts celebrate the colors of the rainbow.

• Big Words for Little Geniuses

  Patterson, Sue

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  An alphabetical collection of big words that are fun to say and to learn.