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Jiffy, Cat Detective by Catherine Chidgey
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
When Dad can't find his shoe the family is sent to find it, but Jiffy, the cat, knows how to solve this mystery. In fact he knew even before the loss was noticed. Told in rhyme and rhythm with a very satisfying ending ... for cats.
Jiffy's Greatest Hits by Catherine Chidgey; Astrid Matijasevich
21.99 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books
Jiffy the cat loves to express himself through song. That would be just fine by his human family, the Bees, if he didn't go on all night! A laugh-out-loud story, which also introduces children to telling the time, by award-winning author Catherine Chidgey.
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted, Dublin Literary Award shortlisted, and Ockham NZ Book Award winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new te ...Show more
Pet (HB) by Catherine Chidgey
38.00 NZD
50.00 (24% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
A new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted and Dublin Literary Award shortlisted author of Remote Sympathy, Catherine Chidgey. Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief ...Show more
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other ...Show more
The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits – but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we’re staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now. Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Mar ...Show more
The Beat of the Pendulum by Chidgey Catherine
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the acclaimed The Wish Child comes something unexpected and fearless: a found novel. The Beat of the Pendulum is the result of one year in which Chidgey drew upon the language she encountered on a daily basis, such as news stories, radio broadcasts, emails, social media, street signs, ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more
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