Children's books for a family trip to New Zealand
Children's books for a family trip to New Zealand, from a bouncy rhyming dog to a Māori weaving tale.
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Try Hermo freeA story set where you are headed can turn the journey into part of the trip. For New Zealand, that means children's books by authors and illustrators from New Zealand, starting with Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd. Below are three books worth packing, each available in English with links to find them at Bookshop.org or Amazon.
A scruffy dog and his friends flee Scarface Claw the tomcat, in bouncing rhyme.
An old woman and a spider argue over who is the better weaver.
A farm woman scrubs her muddy animals clean, again and again.
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