Chris Tse

Emma Barnes

A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and much much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

An Anthology of Takatapui and Lgbtqia+ Writers from Aotearoa

Out Here

Katie Woolley

Words and Pictures Staff

QED Publishing Limited Staff

Dad has lost his hat and Mum has lost the cat! Where have they gone? Where is the Cat? So many things go missing on the farm. Exploring themes of family, animals and life on a farm, this fun and engaging story also includes comprehension activities and extra discussion topics, making it perfect for supporting learning at school. Featuring original stories, delightful characters and humorous illustrations, Reading Gems is a series designed to spark a love of reading. It is a supplementary reading programme that is graded into four levels to perfectly suit a child's reading ability from an emerging reader to a confident, independent reader. Parents and teachers can be reassured that children are reading books that support their ability, challenge their reading skills and encourage reading confidence with every word on the page.

Where Is Cat?, Level 1

The year is 1897. Queen Victoria has been on the throne for sixty years and a great celebration has been planned. How can a nursemaid and two naughty children stop the royal day from becoming a disaster? Emily to the Rescue is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 6-7 years

Reading Planet - Emily Saves the Day - White: Galaxy

With her two friends, Chloe forms a Secret Club dedicated to making their dreams come true - but fantasy and reality don't always mix! When Chloe's mother tells her she can be anything she wants to be, Chloe decides she wants to be a princess. Along with her best friend, Aisha, and a bossy girl in her class called Eliza, they pledge themselves to becoming princesses. Unfortunately they all have different ideas about exactly what that means. And grace, elegance and regal ways don't always come naturally...

Chloe's Secret Club: Chloe's Secret Princess Club

A bold, playful, poetic exploration of sex, gender and identity.I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I'm always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I'm coming back now. Youcan see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissue finallymaking a body. And once I have a body I have a head. And inmy head are these thoughts.—From &‘I am in bed with you'Playful and fluid but completely serious, Emma Barnes's surreal phantasmagoria I Am in Bed with You leads us through the very personal worlds of sex, gender and the body. Barnes cracks jokes, makes us uncomfortable, shows us a little tenderness, leaves a lot unsaid and does it all with language that provokes and confounds.&‘I'm a mentally ill, / married, chronically ill, queer woman with two feet underground', the author reveals. &‘I birth Sigourney Weaver's android baby', they tell us next. This collection is personal and fantastical, funny and excruciating. It's poetry in the process of unravelling most of what you thought you knew.

I Am in Bed with You

Lucie has always wanted a dog, but her Uncle Joe brings her a wolf instead. Lucie soon realises that her new pet has magical powers and as she grows to love Wolfie, she also realises she has to protect her new companion.

Wolfie

A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and much, much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa

Eliza's not sure about the news that she is going to be a big sister, but when her friends Chloe and Aisha say that they can practise by becoming fairy godmothers, a new club is born: The Secret Fairy Godmother Club. But the three friends soon find out that being a fairy godmother isn't easy, especially when their homemade love potion goes wrong and their magical makeover doesn't turn out quite so magical after all. Can the Club fix everything in time before the new baby arrives?

Chloe's Secret Fairy Godmother Club

She's a demon child She's not meek and mild She's wild! Kate has a problem. It's called Wild Thing. Wild Thing is Kate's little sister. Kate's tried to get her rid of her, but the problem is no-one else would have her. When Wild Thing's not getting things stuck up her nose, she's biting people's bottoms and scaring the neighbours. All in all, she's a pain in the bum - quite literally. So when it's time for Wild Thing to start school, Kate is understandably nervous - especially when Wild Thing comes downstairs dressed in her favourite Rock Chick outfit (complete with wig...). On her first day at school Wild Thing: refuses to sit down, plays air guitar while the other children are singing sweetly, and chops her hair off in Arts and Crafts. She's so wild she even gets into the local newspaper! But when an intruder breaks into their house late at night, Kate realises it might not be such a bad thing having a wild sister after all. In fact, she quite likes having her around. One thing's for sure, there's nobody quite like Wild Thing.

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