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Intermediate Age
10-13 years
Weapons by Edwin Tunis
Books along a similar vein to David Macaulay’s Pyramid: Brilliant for late readers because they can learn so much from the illustrations. We loved Oars, Sails and Steam: A picture books of ships as well as Frontier Living, Wheels and Indians. We are looking forward to exploring more of his work. A child could spend a... »
Explode the Code by Nancy M Hall
We love these workbooks for learning to read, we have been using them for 10 years ( different children . You can read more about the program here including the online version which we haven’t tried yet. Click on the picture to be taken to Learnex (New Zealand) for the workbooks. One of my children... »
The Life-Size Guide to Insects and Other Land Invertebrates of New Zealand By Andrew Crowe
Andrew Crowe’s books were a wonderful edition to our home library. My 6 year old son appreciates the life sized photographs because it helps so much with identification. This last summer and no doubt the next he will bring in many creeping things for us all to “OOO” and hopefully not too many “ARGHHH!”... »