Edited By Jo Noble
Illustrated By David Elliot

Pavlovas and chocolate bombs...farms and zoos...cricket and rugby...witches' britches and winning Lotto...

This bunch of New Zealand stories is bold and bubbly, brilliant and boisterous.

Written by some of New Zealand's top authors, they will inspire the imaginations of New Zealand children.

Contents
1. The Reading Room Joy Cowley
2. Pavlova Queen Rose Hudson
3. Trapped by an Octopus Janet Slater Bottin
4. Witches Britches Karen Sidney
5. Silent Reading David Hill
6. The Super-Trolley Cynthia Todd Maguire
7. Uncle Trev and the Light Bulb Jack Lasenby
8. Circus Routine Diana Noonan
9. Roimata and the Forest of Tane Miriam Smith
10. The Case of the Phantom Tagger Margaret Schroder
11. Mayday! Christine Ashton
12. Green Marmalade to You Margaret Mahy
13. Parent Help? Anna Kenna
14. Leila's Lunch Jane Buxton
15. Weapons of Mass,Description Anna Kenna
16. The Violin Gillian S. Findsen
17. A load of Junk John Lockyer
18. Horse Adrienne Jansen
19.Uncle Trev and the Howling Dog Service Jack Lasenby
20. Would You Like to be a Parrot? Barbara Hill
21. The Caves in the Cliff Patricia Irene Johnson
22. The Chocolate Bomb Stuart Payne
23. Ms Winsley and the Pirate Who Didn't Have a Problem Barbara Else
24. Intruders Elizabeth Best
25. Why Anna Hung Upside Down Margaret Mahy
26. Beans Patricia Grace
27. When Mum Won Lotto Valerie Batchelor
28. Sebastian Janice Leitch
29. Just One Thing K.E. Anderson
30. Where's Pete? Penelope Newman

Hardback, 2008 reprint, new