Books

  • Book 2-21 ‘When Mozzy Bit Me’

    Why do female mosquitoes attack us? What happens when she lays her eggs? The life cycle explained.

    By Betsy Sewell

    908 words

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  • Book 1-02 ‘A Nap in the Sun’

    One little spot in the sun, and all the animals want it.

    By Betsy Sewell – 285 words

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  • Book 2-08 ‘Nag Nag’

    The kids are all too busy to help mum get dinner, until there is no dinner…

    By Betsy Sewell-775 words 

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  • Book 2-07 ‘Pepper In The Batter’

    Some of the family like pepper in their batter, some do not. Trying to get it right for everyone can go terribly wrong.

    ed and er suffixes

    By Jan Farr-716 words 

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  • Book 2-04 ‘Into The Mud’

    Mud runs are supposed to be fun, but the winner gets $200.

    By Betsy Sewell-1096 words

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  • Book 2-13 ‘The Problem of a Soccer Mad Dad’

    Dad is annoyingly mad on soccer, and claims he was once a star. No-one believes him, until the evidence comes to light.

    By Betsy Sewell-905 words 

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  • Book 1-07 ‘Go, Sam, Go’

    Mum interferes with the race so that her boy is the winner.

    By Betsy Sewell – 335 words

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  • Book 3-11 ‘A Letter in a Bottle’

    The story of young Nick who at 11 ran away to sea with Captain Cook, and who first sighted Young Nick’s Head on the East Coast. His duties on board, and the fear of falling off the end of a flat earth. Suitable for older children.

    Many ck words, and le and en suffixes.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1001 words

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  • Book 3-03 ‘Stuck’

    A bug goes up to the deck to finish off the dog’s dinner, but gets stuck lying on her back. What can she do to free herself?

    Many ck words, le suffix.

    By Betsy Sewell – 604 words

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  • Book 2-01 ‘A Bad Vet’

    The animals treated badly by the vet decide to get rid of him.

    Mainly CVC, with some th words (this, them that…)

    By Betsy Sewell-474 words

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  • Book 1-12 ‘Yum said Mum’

    Mum is too ill to get up – until someone brings her something delicious

    By Jan Farr – 326 words

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  • Book 1-10 ‘Mum’s Big Mess’

    Mum’s cooking leaves much to be desired.

    By Betsy Sewell – 219 words

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  • Book 2-18 ‘My Big Rig’

    What is involved in long distance haulage in a big rig, over ill-maintained roads and in threatening weather.

    By Betsy Sewell

    823 words

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  • Book 1-18 ‘For My Kids’

    Dad goes pig hunting and comes home with a treat for the kids.

    By Betsy Sewell – 528 words

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  • Book 1-06 ‘Wag Wag’

    No-one likes the wet dog being too playful – and getting them wet!

    By Jan Farr – 188 words

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  • Book 2-05 ‘Cob and Sod’

    How to build a house for next to nothing using the traditional materials, cob and sod.

    CVC words, double final consonants (toss, add), plus th, ch and sh.

    By Betsy Sewell-1169 words 

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  • Book 1-20 ‘To Get To My Job’

    The hero of this story is determined to get to work on time, but just how many different things can go wrong? Does he, in the end, get to keep his job?

    By Betsy Sewell – 740 words

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  • Book 1-03 ‘Rat Gets Fat’

    The cat has a problem: how to get that big dog off her mat.

    Rat comes up with a plan. But of course, the plan has benefits for the rat as well.

    By Betsy Sewell – 294 words

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  • Book 1-01 ‘Gas!’

    All about who produces gas…

    By Jan Farr – 228 words

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  • Book 3-07 ‘The Rock Cutters’

    Three men sit in the hot sun, cutting rocks. So why does one think this is an utterly boring job, another think it is an honour to do this work, with the third thinking something else again?

    By Betsy Sewell – 828 words

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  • Book 2-12 ‘Pig and Dog’

    Who will win the race? The cheat, of course, unless he is found out.

    By Betsy Sewell-719 words 

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  • Book 1-13 ‘My Bus’

    I am happy living in a bus with just the stuff I really need, but my mum is not happy, not at all.

    By Betsy Sewell – 562 words

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  • Book 1-05 ‘The Rag Pet’

    Mum says No to every pet Meg suggests, so she takes inspiration from her rag doll and makes a rag pet.

    By Betsy Sewell – 382 words

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  • Book 1-04 ‘Gus the Pup’

    A playful little puppy gets bitten by a bug hiding in the rug.

    By Betsy Sewell – 307 words

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  • Book 3-16 ‘Fishing For Cod’

    Cod, once hugely abundant in the North Atlantic, are now facing possible extinction. How did that happen? The story is told through several generations of one family of fishermen.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1403 words

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  • Book 2-02 ‘Jess the Cat’

    Jess hops on the bus, looking for a person to live with.

    More th words.

    By Betsy Sewell-543 words 

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  • Book 1-19 ‘A Pet For Todd’

    Todd wants a pet, but the pitfalls of pet ownership need to be considered.

    By Betsy Sewell – 682 words

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  • Book 1-15 ‘A Monster Problem’

    What to do about a pet monster with monster hic cups?

    By Betsy Sewell – 556 words

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  • Book 7-07 ‘The Christmas Truce’

    On Christmas Day, 1914, enemies emerged from the trenches to play soccer. How did this change attitudes to the enemy?

    By Betsy Sewell – 1582 words 

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  • Book 3-04 ‘Cop and Robber’

    Cop and Robber Includes some initial blends. A foolish robber and a not very bright cop, but everyone is happy in the end.

    By Betsy Sewell – 657 words

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  • Book 2-10 ‘Polly and the Gas Man’

    Betty is struggling to teach the parrot new words and phrases, but after a bizarre interaction with the gas man, Polly suddenly has several new comments to repeat at unlikely times.

    By Betsy Sewell-1019 words 

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  • Book 2-09 ‘A Winner’

    Who is bigger, who can shift more dirt, the digger or the tipper?

    ing, ed and er suffixes

    By Betsy Sewell-744 words 

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  • Book 1-08 ‘Bugs In The Jam’

    How do you get rid of masses of bugs in the jam? Perhaps they are not bugs, after all.

    By Betsy Sewell – 341 words

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  • Book 6-06 ‘Diving With Manta Ray’

    An underwater film maker befriends a huge manta ray, and follows her life.

    Many words with o_e and i_e

    By Betsy Sewell – 2337 words

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  • Book 5-13 ‘One Man and a Donkey’

    The true story of Jack Simpson, who used a donkey to bring injured men off the field of battle at Gallipoli to the Red Cross tents on the beach.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1596 words

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  • Book 4-21 ‘I Am A Tracker’

    How does a trained Search and Rescue tracker find a missing person? What signs do they see that the rest of us may miss? Told through the eyes of a tracker at work, as he reminisces about his own experience of being lost in this very forest as a seven-year-

    By Betsy Sewell – 2178 words

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  • Book 3-15 ‘A Shipwreck’

    The villagers are struggling to survive and pay the land tax, when a ship loaded with valuable metal sinks close to the village. When the owners come to salvage the goods, no-one in the village knows where the ship lies, no-one saw a thing… Suitable for older children.

    By  Betsy Sewell – 1297 words

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  • Book 2-20 ‘The Illness Of Tilly The Pig’

    The two pigs were the best of pals, mostly, more or less, but when one became ill the other went to extraordinary lengths to care for her pal. A true story.

    By Betsy Sewell

    893 words

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  • Book 2-16 ‘Sam and the Piglet’

    Sam must wear a hat and top to go and feed the pigs, so that he does not get sunburn. But the pig’s mud looks like fun, and the piglet thinks Sam’s hat and top are so much better than mud.

    By Betsy Sewell

    602 words

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  • Book 1-09 ‘Nan is O.K.’

    Nan jets in and fixes the problem of the jam spilt on Mum’s best rug.

    By Jan Farr – 284 words

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  • Book 5-07 ‘The Godwits’

    The story of the godwits’ incredible flight to the tundra in Alaska, and back to New Zealand.

    By Betsy Sewell – 938 words

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  • Book 2-24 ‘Riff Raff Fuddy Duddy’

    The young people may be untidy, and noisy, but they are dedicated to hip-hop and rap. They and the old man next door have little tolerance for each other, until they find a common bond in music and dance.

    By Betsy Sewell

    905 words

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  • Book 7-11 ‘The First All Blacks’

    The 1905 rugby tour of Britain. How a group of unknown footballers turned into heroic rugby players, and rugby became New Zealand’s national game.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1512 words 

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  • Book 7-02 ‘Adrift with a Shark’

    The relationship between a man alone on a life raft, and the shark that arrives every evening to travel with him as he paddles to land.

    By Betsy Sewell – 2939 words 

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  • Book 6-16 ‘A Runaway’s Tale’

    A runaway slave makes his precarious way to freedom, not knowing who he can trust. And then he comes back to rescue his little family…

    By Betsy Sewell – 2521 words 

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  • Book 6-07 ‘The Whale Stranding’

    Based on a true event. A particularly difficult whale stranding, and what must be done to save them.

    By Betsy Sewell – 1390 words

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  • Book 1-16 ‘Rot In A Log’

    Many creatures make their home in a rotten log, until Tom sees its potential, and destroys it for them all.

    By Betsy Sewell – 661 words

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  • Book 1-14 ‘A Tad’

    A tad, a dot, a jot, a dab – they all mean not a lot of dinner on the plate.

    By Jan Farr –  233 words

    $8.00 + GST
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