Kate De Goldi

Gregory O'Brien

Moving, charming novel from much-loved, international-award-winning children's author Kate de Goldi, author of the 10pm question. Beautifully packaged and illustrated throughout with drawings by Greg O'Brien. Perry's mother and father are busy people a they're impatient, they're tired, they get cross easily. And they think that only children, like Perry, should be kept busy. On Saturday mornings Perry and her father visit her gran, Honora Lee, at the Santa Lucia rest home, but Gran never remembers them. 'Who is that man?' Honora Lee asks when Perry's father leaves the room. After movement class is abruptly cancelled, Perry is allowed to go to Santa Lucia on Thursday afternoons. She discovers her Gran has an unconventional interest in the alphabet, so Perry decides to make an alphabet book with the help of Honora and the others. Soon everyone is interested in Perry's book project. Kate De Goldi's The ACB with Honora Lee unfolds with characteristic warmth, quirky, surprising humour and a rich cast of 'residents'. The story is a meditation on kindness and patience and acceptance; that of the very young and the very old. It's a story that will resonate with echoes of recollection for many - from Perry's endearing perspective on the adult world to the embracing kindness of those who care for the elderly. A many-layered and playful novel with a crossover audience, it will delight both the young and the not so young. Shortlisted for the NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2013 and the LIANZA Award 2013.

The ACB with Honora Lee

William Yule

A timely distillation of current thinking on the presentation of behavioural disorders and their origins.

Behavioural Phenotypes

Lara Strongman

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism : Mexican Masterpieces from the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Collection, 29 January - 30 April, City Gallery, Wellington

Viva la Vida

Christopher Gillberg

This book reviews clinical models for working with developmental disability and behavioural problems. The first section explores the causes and nature of behaviour problems amongst people with physical, learning, language and sensory disabilities, and some key specific conditions. The second section describes the assessment approaches that clinicians will find most useful in evaluating behaviour. The third section covers treatment approaches emphasising the importance of a broad, eclectic approach. The contributors, all acknowledged experts in their fields of paediatrics, psychology and psychiatry, provide a comprehensive overview of this set of major challenges, emphasising the importance of auditory detection, understanding, measurement and treatment.

Developmental Disability and Behaviour

Lenin Lives!

Jenny Bornholdt

Includes memoirs, stories, and poems written in France by some of New Zealand's greatest writers - Janet Frame, Allen Curnow, James K Baxter and others. This anthology also represents the imaginative engagement of the French writers - including Blaise Cendrars, rugby writer Denis Lalanne, and Charles Juliet - who, in turn, visited New Zealand.

New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand

The Colour of Distance

An essay which covers the history of twentieth-century modernism, the politics of French nuclear testing, and the life of a family.

A Guide to French Usage

News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore

Te Miringa Hohaia

"Drawing on previously unpublished manuscripts, many of the teachings and sayings of Te Whiti and Tohu - in Maori and English - are reproduced in full with extensive annotation by Te Miringa Hohaia. Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance reaches beyond the art and literary worlds to engage with cultural issues important to all citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand."--Jacket.

Gregory O'Brien

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