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Bedtime Rhymes by Raymond Briggs
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Taken from Raymond Briggs' classic Puffin Mother Goose Treasury, this is a perfect first introduction to everyone's favourite bedtime rhymes. With beautiful illustrations throughout by the much-loved creator of The Snowman.
Collected Poems for Children (Hardback) by Ted Hughes (illus Raymond Briggs)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs", which he remark ...Show more
Ethel & Ernest - A True Story by Raymond Briggs
$34.99 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Reading Level: very good
Utterly original, deeply moving and very funny, Ethel & Ernest is the story of Raymond Briggs' parents' marriage, from their first chance encounter to their deaths told in Brigg's unique strip-cartoon format. Nothing is invented, nothing embroidered - this is the reality of two decent, ordinary live ...Show more
Ethel & Ernest O/P by Raymond Briggs
$27.99 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
The story of Raymond Briggs's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths. Told in Briggs's familiar strip-cartoon format, with nothing embroidered or altered, the book is also a social history of a kind, embracing such events as World War II and the advent of television. Firs ...Show more
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
$14.95 NZD
Category: Christmas Books | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Father Christmas awoke from his dream of summer in the sun, and there it was on the calendar, December 24th, Christmas Eve - the start of his longest night's work of the year! This book was awarded The Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal.
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs
$18.00 NZD
Category: Christmas Books
"BLOOMING CHRISTMAS, HERE AGAIN!" Reissued in a mini hardback gift edition, with a letter from Raymond Briggs, this is the perfect stocking filler. On Christmas Eve morning, a very grumpy Father Christmas is dreaming about summer, and certainly doesn't want to get up in the cold to deliver presents! Fol ...Show more
Father Christmas (PB) by Raymond Briggs
$21.00 NZD
Category: Christmas Books
Join Father Christmas on his busiest night of the year in this 50th anniversary edition of the hilariously irreverent Christmas classic! Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, introduces us to a rather grumpy Father Christmas in this brilliantly tongue-in-cheek festive tale. Father Christmas has awok ...Show more
Fungus the Bogeyman (Anniversary Edition) by Raymond Briggs
$29.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Experience a day in the life of a Bogeyman in this brilliantly gross picture book for older children. Experience a day in the life of a Bogeyman in this brilliantly gross picture book for older children. Life under ground in Bogeydom is full of snot, smells, slime, scum and other unspeakable things. The ...Show more
Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs
$34.99 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
First published in 1980, two years after "The Snowman", "Gentleman Jim" has been unavailable for many years. We are delighted to bring it back into print as the first book in an occasional series, "Cape Graphic Classics". "Gentleman Jim" is the story of Jim Bloggs, a lavatory attendant who, dissatisfied ...Show more
Jim and the Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: From 4 to 6
This is a wonderful retelling from Snowman-author Raymond Briggs - Jim and the Beanstalk. A re-telling of the classic children's story by the author and illustrator of the best-selling Snowman. Jim finds a beanstalk growing outside his window one morning, and follows his famous predecessor up to the top ...Show more
Puddleman by Raymond Briggs
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Tom refers to his grandfather as 'Collar' because he drags him around on a lead. One day, Tom decides that he will take Collar on a walk to see the puddles he has named after the members of the family, but the puddles are not there. Collar insists that this is because it hasn't rained, but Tom believes ...Show more