Jez Smith & Ned Barraud
Scholastic NZ

Pu and Ru are two friends on a quest 
to find out which bird's beak is the best.
Turn the pages and follow each clue.
Explore bird beaks with Pu and Ru.

Pu the pukeko and Ru the ruru pose a series of rhyming clues for children to solve. Whose beak belongs to whom? And who has the best beak?

Hona Black & Te Aorangi Murphy-Fell
Oratia Press

How do you choose between 'awhi' and 'āwhina'? What difference can a tohutō (macron) make? And should you address your friend as 'Hēmi' or 'e Hēmi'? This book has the answers, explaining and correcting more than 150 errors of word choice, grammar and more. With descriptions in Māori and English and plenty of examples, Ngā Hapa Reo is a taonga for speakers and learners at any level.

Elaine Bickell & Raymond McGrath
Scholastic NZ

"I've lost my BROOM! I've lost my BROOM!"
She searched the house, she searched each room.

Little Witch has lost her broom and needs to find it by the rise of the moon so she can take to the skies with the other witches for Halloween. To speed up her broom hunt, she tries out a number of methods of transport, leading to a series of misadventures!

Melanie Koster e Monica Koster
Scholastic NZ

"Kei totohu tō puku ki te wai!
Kei riro koe i te taniwha!"

Ka whai ngā tuāhine kaumātua o Tama ki te whakamataku i a ia. E pērā rawa ana tana māia ki te ruku ki te roto? Aē rānei ka riro ia i tētehi taniwha pīataata e kaha ana te pōhutu me te kānapanapa?

Tama is down at the lake with his sisters and grandparents. When his sisters tease him about a taniwha being in the river, he takes a deep breath and dives in anyway. What is that wonderful, swirling, sparkling apparition? Is it a taniwha ... or is it something else altogether?

Melinda Szymanik
Isobel Joy Te Aho-White

Drip, drip, drop, drop. Kerplop! Kerplop! 
The rain was drumming on the ground.
It came too fast. It came too hard. "
BatKiwi!" came the call. "Save us!" 

With the help of a mysterious 'Thing', clever Kiwi and unstoppable Bat come to the rescue again. The third in the popular BatKiwi forest rescue series.

Jenny Davis
Fremantle Press

A moving tale of friendship, survival, and the remarkable strength and resilience of women during World War II. Sister Vivian Bullwinkel was the only survivor of the Bangka Island massacre during World War II. Her evocative story is told through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Edith 'Edie' Kenneison, a lonely teenager that Vivian met while interned in a prisoner-of-war camp. Their remarkable friendship would help them survive and became the basis of a lifelong bond.

Vanessa Hatley-Owen & Lisa Allen
Upstart Press

The littlest lifeguard wants to help, but it only ends in chaos!
Just when it seems they will never be part of the team, they discover being the littlest one means you can help in a different way.