Children's Books.

  • 10 Little Hermit Crabs
  • Paper Yachts
  • Paper Captain Book and Punch-out Boats
  • Herbert the Brave Sea Dog
  • The Boy Who Built the Boat
  • Little Bear's Little Boat
  • One Smart Fish
  • Ducky
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    10 LITTLE HERMIT CRABS.
    By Lee Fox & Shane McG. Hardback, 286mm x 223mm, 36 pages, full colour.
    10 little hermit crabs scuttle to the beach. Down swoops a seagull. Screech!Screech!Screech!
    A playful counting book starring 10 little hermit crabs with a knack for getting into trouble. Can you count them all?

    NZ$25.00 + Delivery

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    PAPER YACHTS.
    By Nic Compton & Nick Robinson. Hardback, 226mm x 226mm, 80 pages, full colour.
    A sailor's love of the high seas need not be limited by time or money. Now, anybody can enjoy sailing - all it takes is some paper and your own imagination! Paper Yachts lets you enjoy big boat racing on a small scale. Create miniature imitations of the most competitive yachts on the planet, from the larger Internatioanl America's Cup Class to the small and nimble Extreme 40s. Captain your own vessel with 16 water-resistant templates that allow you to set sail in the tub, pool, stream, or ocean. Detailed instructions and illustrations help you fold and launch each sailboat, and course suggestions set you up for serious match racing or a mixed class regatta.
    Loaded with gorgeous and nautical information, this book is more than origami, it's the excitement of sailing. So weigh anchor, cast off, and be an admiral of the sea for a day.
    This book will provide hours of fun for kids of all ages.

    NZ$45.00 + Delivery

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    PAPER CAPTAIN BOOK + PUNCH OUT BOATS.
    This is a fabulous gift book for grown ups who are really kids at heart and have always dreamt of being the captain on their own vessel. With this book all your dreams can come true. You can be the Captain on a cruiseliner or an aircraft carrier, a dive research ship or a submarine, a frigate or a wooden warship. All you have to do is choose a vessel, assemble the appropriate punch-out model and you will be the captain of your paper vessel. The first 143 pages of the book contain information on;
  • How boats work.
  • The boats features in the book: Sovereign of the Seas - HMS Victory - USS Constitution - USS Monitor - CSS Virginia - U117 Unterseeboat - SS Normandie - USS Gato - USS Iowa - Charles McAllister Tugboat - Bathyscape Trieste - USS Nautilus - Bluebird K7 - USS Enterprise - Mystic - Guppy 13 - Sea Shadow - Knock Nevis - RMS Queen Mary 2 - Emma Maersk.
  • Statistics and Information.
  • Shipwrecks.
  • Construction, finishing and waterproofing tips for the paper boats.
    This book will provide hours of fun for kids of all ages.

    Was NZ$50.00 + Delivery
    Now NZ$30.00 + Delivery.

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    HERBERT THE BRAVE SEA DOG.
    By Robyn Belton. Pbk, 262mm x 232mm, full colour illustrations.
    Herbert was a small dog who lived by the sea. Everybody loved him, but the person who loved him most was Tim. One fine day, an excited Herbert set off on a boat with Tim's father, heading for the Marlborough Sounds. What no one knew, however, was that the weather would soon turn rough and Herbert would be thrown into the biggest adventrue of his life.

    This is a true New Zealand story, delightfully told and beautifully illustrated.

    NZ$18.00 + Delivery.

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    THE BOY WHO BUILT THE BOAT.
    By Ross Mueller & craig Smith. Pbk, 230mm x 230mm, full colour illustrations.
    Henry sets out to build a boat one day. He has a hammer and a saw and a sister and a Teddy and a shed full of big ideas. With a buoyant, rhythmic text, ideal for reading aloud, The Boy Who Built the Boat celebrates the simple joy of making things.

    NZ$20.00 + Delivery.

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    LITTLE BEAR'S LITTLE BOAT.
    ByEve Bunting. Pbk, 150mm x 153mm, full colour illustrations.
    Little Bear loved his little boat. He rowed it around Huckleberry Lake. He fished from it. He dreamed in it. But then something happened. Little Bear began to grow and grow. One day he didn't fit in his little boat any more!
    Every child who experiences growing pains will appreciate this charming story.

    NZ$16.00 + Delivery.

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    ONE SMART FISH.
    By Chris Wormell. Hardback, 267mm x 267mm, colour text and illustrations.
    Long ago in the deep ocean, there lived...one smart fish! He wasn't the biggest and he wasn't the boldest, but he was the cleverest. What this smart fish wanted more than anything else was to walk upon the land.
    But everyone knows that fish can't walk...can they? Find out how one smart fish can change the world in this sparkling new adventure from Chris Wormell, creator of George and the Dragon.

    NZ$39.00 + Delivery.

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    DUCKY.
    By Dave Gunson. Paperback, 200mm x 200mm, full colour illustrations.
    Ducky sits on the shelf of the toy shop, all alone.
    All her brothers and sisters have been sold - one by one - and she is the last little rubber duck in the shop.
    Then something wonderful happens.

    NZ$19.00 + Delivery.

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    and Boat and Yacht Design

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