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Common Prayer Gift Edition by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
$24.99 NZD
Category: Spirituality
Secondhand. This is an illustrated collection of prayers. It contains 28 meditations/prayers, plus an introduction on prayer. The prayers have an element of social comment for a secular audience.
Curly Verse: Selected Poems - Popular Penguins by Michael Leunig
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume excludes the cartoon element, focusing on Leunig's brilliant texts, with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joyfulness. Michael Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy ...Show more
Ducks for Dark Times by Michael Leunig
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category
A collection of cartoons about many strange and lovely things- kind words for dark days; simple poems concerning wonderful mysteries; reflections on sadness, joy, dismay, sanity, soup and beauty. Also- doubts, confessions, laments and tributes. Spirited depictions of dogs, ducks, teapots and trees, with ...Show more
Holy Fool: The pictures of Michael Leunig by Michael Leunig
$49.99 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: General Adult
At the heart of Michael Leunig's work lies the idea of the holy fool - a character who does not conform to social norms of behaviour because of mental disability or as a deliberate choice, but is regarded as having a compensating divine blessing or inspiration. The holy fool is the protagonist in most o ...Show more
Michael Leunig Poems 1972-2002 by MICHAEL LEUNIG
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
This edition is out of print. This elegant volume focuses on Michael Leunig's brilliant texts (not his drawings), with all their absurdity, hilarity, poignancy and joy. Leunig pokes fun at human folly and pretentiousness, deplores the idiocy of war, and revels in the redeeming power of love.
Musings from the Inner Duck by Michael Leunig (Illustrator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality
Musings From the Inner Duck, Michael Leunig's poignantly hilarious new cartoon collection, ranges from Curly Flat to the global positioning sausage, accompanied by the direction-finding duck.This collection of 138 cartoons tilts towards the whimsical, the wise and the sublimely misaligned; it's less hea ...Show more
On Love by Michael Leunig
$22.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
MUP's popular series Little Books on Big Themes pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life. Each author's 10,000-word take on a chosen theme is presented as an eminently collectable hardback. In On Love, Michael Leunig offers his own unique and personal ta ...Show more
Prayer Tree - Gift Edition by LEUNIG, MICHAEL
$18.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A person kneels to contemplate a tree and to reflect upon the troubles and joys of life. The person imagines mornings and evenings in a great forest of prayers, swarming and teeming with life. The person is learning how to pray. Michael Leunig.
Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness by Michael Leunig
$26.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Come sit down beside me I said to myself, And although it doesn't makes sense, I held my own hand As a small sign of trust And together I sat on the fence.
THE STICK : AND OTHER TALES OF OUR TIMES by Michael Leunig
$34.95 NZD
Category: Humour
Another superb collection of cartoons, previously unpublished in book form, from one of the country's living national treasures. EVERYTHING ALWAYS What really happened? Many, many, many things happened. Where did these things happen, and how and why? They happened all over the place, and ...Show more
The Curly Pyjama Letters by Michael Leunig (Illustrator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality
These letters are a small fragment of the vast correspondence known to have taken place between lone voyager Vasco Pyjama and his friend and mentor Mr Curly of Curly Flat.While domestic contentment and ease with the natural world are Mr Curly's major attributes, Vasco's restless nature has compelled him ...Show more