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Bluebells Classics Cook Book
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
Bluebells Classics Cook Book
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Bluebells Classics Cook Book

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We’re really excited to announce the launch of our cookbook Bluebells Cakery Classics!

It’s been 10 years since our first cookbook was released so we're delighted to be able to bring you a new book filled with a selection of our classic recipes mixed in with the new that you all know & love! Plus detailed instructions on how to create some of our most popular cake designs at home – including our stunning Unicorn Cake!

Stunning photography by Lottie Hedley.
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The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design
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The Artistry Of Flowers - Floral Design

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Bring beauty in the form of nature into your home and your lifestyle, no matter where you live, through artful floral arrangements, as well as indoor and outdoor flowering plants.

Gabriela Salazar with photographs by Ngoc Minh Ngo.


The Artistry of Flowers encourages everyone to live with florals and to appreciate their beauty as we appreciate art. Celebrated floral designer Gabriela Salazar teaches us how to look at flowers and understand their characteristics from an artist’s perspective. By exploring different shapes, colors, and textures, she shows us how to understand flowers and their living, transitory nature.

Drawing on her painting background, Salazar looks at floral arrangements as compositions. She highlights which type of blooms are best for different designs and shares building blocks for floral designs ranging from simple and sculptural to complex and colorful, including arrangements for any mood and different decor. Salazar inspires us to explore our creativity, empowering us to design our own arrangements.

Combining philosophical and practical tips, such as appreciating how flowers change over time and working with fragility The Artistry of Flowers is a treatise on flower appreciation. The stunning photography by Ngoc Minh Ngo—known for Rizzoli books such as In Bloom and Eden Revisited—complements Salazar’s enthusiastic instruction.

About The Author

Gabriela Salazar of La Musa de las Flores is a floral designer with a flower farm in the mountains of Mexico. She has clients in the fashion and design world including Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), Hermès, and Mont Blanc, and is also known for her floral design classes. Ngoc Minh Ngo is a celebrated photographer whose images have been published in Rizzoli books and such publications as T Magazine, Architectural Digest and Cabana.

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The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
The Plain Cake Appreciation Society
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The Plain Cake Appreciation Society

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The Plain Cake Appreciation Society - 52 weeks of cake.

A recipe a week for a year of delicious, uncomplicated cakes - the perfect reason to sit down and connect with your community. 

Welcome to The Plain Cake Appreciation Society. Where 52 simple, seasonal cake recipes inspire you to pause throughout the year, bake something delicious, and reflect on all that's good in your world. The conversations and comfort that come from what home baker and photographer Tilly Pamment calls 'little pockets of cake calm' become nourishment for your soul to carry you through into the next week.

Find your own slice of joy in the Weekday Lemon Cake or Raspberry-studded Tea Bars at the height of a breezy summer, or the Rainy Day Chocolate Loaf and Ginger and Rose Madeleines for when the weather sets in. Uncomplicated and easy to make, these recipes will provide delicious inspiration all year round.

Tilly Pamment is a recipe developer, photographer, stylist, part-time florist, and full-time wrangler of young children. She is the creative brain behind @tillys_table, where she shares her seasonal baking recipes and inspiration with a community of like-minded pleasure seekers.

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The Lucky Taco Cookbook
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The Lucky Taco Cookbook

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The Lucky Taco food truck has been serving up fresh, authentic and delicious tacos to appreciative fans for 10 years. Now you can recreate their famous tacos, quesadillas and more at home, any night of the week. In this vibrant new cookbook, Sarah and Otis Frizzell share the Lucky Taco story and over 60 secret recipes. As well as their tried and true classics, you'll find one-off special editions, the famous Lucky Taco Pink Pickle, Chilli Lime Salt, hot sauces and more. Plus mouth-watering favourites from the Frizzell home kitchen, including Sticky Cider Ribs, The Lucky Burger, ''R' Rated Mac 'n' Cheese, delectable sweet treats and refreshing drinks. Jazz up taco night with game-changing recipes and pick up hot tips from the dynamic duo, including the ultimate taco-eating stance, how to feed a crowd like a boss, and what to put on the menu for a variety of fun fiestas. Featuring striking photography and Otis's funky illustrations, this colourful little hardcover will look just as good on your coffee table as on your cookbook shelf.
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Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food
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Ripe Recipes - Thought For Food

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It has arrived!!!! Our fabulous new cookbook all dressed up in vibrant orange,

Signed Copies!

 "Angie Redfern and the Ripe Deli team are back with the fourth addition to their successful cookbook series – Thought for Food. It’s been twenty years since Angie flung open the doors of the very first Ripe store in Grey Lynn. To celebrate the Ripe team has curated a collection of fantastic new dishes, like Smoked Eggplant Hummus Salad and local favourites like Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies.

With a focus on salads and sweets, this book is filled with over 120 recipes that are sure to inspire and delight.

Food for thought and thought for food. This new cookbook goes beyond the pleasure of good food and looks at the importance of us doing better with the way we produce and consume food in general, loaded with lots of easy helpful tips.

Angie and selected guests share their sustainability journey stories throughout 'Thought for Food' and hope that their efforts will encourage you on yours."

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Ripe Recipes
Ripe Recipes
Ripe Recipes
Ripe Recipes
Ripe Recipes
Ripe Recipes
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Ripe Recipes

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Our original Ripe Recipes Cookbook has been reprinted again! And is back in stock. Full of delicious baking, salads & meals, this cookbook is always in hot demand.

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Ripe Recipes - A Fresh Batch
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Ripe Recipes - A Fresh Batch

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Freshness and vitality are at the heart of the second cookbook from Ripe Deli: Ripe – A Fresh Batch. There are more than 140 recipes that range from healthy to decadent sorted into occasions such as Mexican Day, Friday Pie Day, lunch faves, deli dinners, finger food... and Christmas. 

This cookbook’s health focus is not at the expense of taste; the salads are bursting with flavour and there are plenty of decadent recipes included, such as the Pink Powder-Puff cake covered with meringue and the luscious Lemony Slice with a melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base. 

 

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Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping
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Ripe Recipes - A Third Helping

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Our fabulous and very popular third cookbook, A Third Helping is a gift that will keep on giving or get one for yourself and start cooking up a storm!

Our third collection is arranged by season, recipes vary from fast, fresh salads and delicious quick meals to lovely slow-cooked goodness plus plenty of Ripes famous cakes & slices.

"A third Helping" also contains special sections in the book dedicated to seasonal "Abundant Vege" & quirky sections such as "Ripes Rescue Remedies", "Secret Stash" and "A Bit On The Side" filled with marinades, rubs, pickles, spice mixes and more! A Third Helping is filled with 150 recipes to feed the soul and delight your taste buds.

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Lost & Found
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
Lost & Found
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Lost & Found

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Lost & Found is a large format, beautiful photographic book that celebrates the joy and beauty of flowers throughout the seasons. A series of detailed and enchanting botanical flat-lays will transport you into the world of 15 imagined creative characters, whose lives have been shaped by nature. Get lost in their stories as you search for hidden objects amongst the blooms. Inspired by her flower-filled life in Gisborne, New Zealand, grower and florist Zoë Field presents her work through a new, magical lens. Combining her extraordinary photography and flowering skills she not only offers readers of all ages a visual delight but also idea-laden lists of plants to capture the imagination of any gardener, regardless of their experience. A grown-up version of the hidden-object game, this book offers a little escape from the day-to-day — a visual delight that takes you on a flower-filled journey.
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The Makers
The Makers
The Makers
The Makers
The Makers
The Makers
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The Makers

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Following on from the success of Wild Kinship - Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs, The Makers focusses on the wellness of our minds. It serves to inspire and awaken the creative in all of us. 

The Makers speaks with artists from all walks of life to discover the impact that arts and creativity have on the cultural wellbeing of society and that of our own. 

 

Published by Beatnik Publishing. Hardcover.

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Flora And The Flamingo
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Flora And The Flamingo

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In this wordless book with life-the-flaps, a flamingo and a girl explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. Beautiful and emotional, as well as funny and lighthearted, these irresistable, well-developed characters will win your heart with their performance.
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Flora And The Penguin
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Flora And The Penguin

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Flora forms an unexpected friendship with a penguin as they dance above and below the ice. Twirling, leaping, spinning and gliding, on skates and flippers, the duo mirror each other's graceful ice dance. But when Flora gives the penguin the cold shoulder, the pair must figure out a way to work together for uplifting results. Artist Molly Idle creates an innovative, wordless picture book with clever flaps that reveal Flora and the penguin coming together, spiralling apart, and coming back together as only true friends do.
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From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
From Seed To Bloom
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From Seed To Bloom

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A Year Of Growing & Designing With Seasonal Flowers

Starting by tackling the principles of floristry from seed to bloom, Milli takes you through the seasons and explores the top plants to grow and how to style them. Each chapter spotlights the growing highlights of the season with top tips on how to sow, grow and harvest.

Milli also shares her own stories from the field to help inspire and encourage you to grow your own, with advice on soil health, composting, sustainable growing and how to plan your planting. From Seed to Bloom includes beautiful lifestyle photography shot through the year from Milli's field, as well as step-by-step photography that celebrates the art of creating beautiful floral pieces, to gift and to keep. This is a book for those who seek an approachable and accessible insight into the wonderful world of flower growing and floral arranging.

Learn to play with colour and texture both in your planting and styling with From Seed to Bloom , as you learn how to create designs with confidence and bring nature into your home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Milli Proust is inspired by the way plants grow in the wild, and she loves working with what she grows, creating romantic and playful designs for weddings, events, brands and personal clients. All of her crops are all grown in rhythm with nature, and are completely chemical-free in a passionate effort to protect our surrounding wildlife. In January 2017, she made the move from London, where she was born and raised, to a deeply rural pocket of West Sussex.

It may be only an hour back to the city by train, but it often feels so much further away than that. She fell in love with her pocket of countryside, deep in the woods, growing as much beauty as she could. In the few years of making this her home, she has learnt to see the seasons change, not just from winter to spring, from spring to summer, but from week to week, each and every day bringing new promise, change and subtle shift. When she is not tending to the crops or creating and installing floral work, she works as an actress for radio, stage, and television.

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Gardens For The Soul
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Gardens For The Soul

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Gardens for the Soul shows how a sustainable and eco-friendly ethos can be at the heart of creating a beautiful garden, whatever its location or size.



There are a multitude of different ways in which we use our outside spaces, and in Gardens for the Soul Sara Bird and Dan Duchars explore ways to create and style a haven that will suit your lifestyle. Day Dreamers seek solitude and a therapeutic experience, and Home Harvesters use their garden space to grow flowers or fruit and veg; while Garden Partiers put their outside space to work as an entertaining zone for friends and family and Great Escapers aim to recreate a chilled holiday vibe at home. Sara and Dan visit real-life gardens that fall into these categories, from tiny patios to larger spaces, to glean ideas, tips and inspiration. With a focus on sustainability and reclaimed materials, there are suggestions for choosing garden elements, from decor to lighting to furniture and accessories, as well as easy craft projects that add quirky personal touches.
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Sustainable Home
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Sustainable Home

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Sustainable Home is a stylish, inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly household.

Sustainable lifestyle blogger and professional Christine Liu takes you on a tour through the rooms of your home - the living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom - offering tips, tricks and 18 step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Whether its by making your own toothpaste, converting to renewable energy sources, reducing your consumption of plastic, growing your own herb garden or upcycling old pieces of furniture, there are numerous ways - both big and small - to make a difference.

With environmental issues at the forefront of global politics, the desire to make small changes on an individual level is on the rise; this book will guide anyone hoping to make a difference, but who perhaps don't know where to begin.

Hardback | 160 pages

170 x 230 x 22.86mm 

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Grow - Wahine Finding Connection Through Food
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Grow - Wahine Finding Connection Through Food

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Sophie Merkens takes us on a journey across Aotearoa meeting 37 inspiring women who find meaning and connection through food. From mothers, gardeners, hunters, chefs and hobbyists, their conversations dive deep into how food influences their lives. Grow - Wahine Finding Connection Through Food is a refreshingly honest and insightful book about women, food and connection. Food is a central force of people's lives, work and travels: it's often the only shared language. Meet women who know which mushrooms to pick, how to preserve the olives growing along public land, how to make rosewater from blooms, and how to make 'coffee; from roasted dandelion roots. Meet women who make it a priority to grow, nourish and connect.
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publication Date: 07/06/2022
  • Publisher: Beatnik Publishing
  • Country of Origin: New Zealand
  • Pages: 256
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Be The One
Be The One
Be The One
Be The One
Be The One
Be The One
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Be The One

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I’ve written this book for you who feels so deeply or “too much,” as others have said. In this book, I celebrate deep feelings and show you the power in their vulnerability. Whether you’re searching for who you are or for someone else who gets you, this book is for you. The short passages inside will inspire you with their themes of friendship, love, and self-discovery. You are not alone. We are not alone.

Love is worth the risk.

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This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
This Is How You Heal
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This Is How You Heal

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In her follow-up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest’s words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.

Healing is not a one-time event.

It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into, and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.

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The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
The Flower Hunter
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The Flower Hunter

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This is the most stunning book I have seen for some time with every page I turned I gasped at the beauty of what Lucy creates and this book will be taking centre stage on my coffee table the minute it arrives and it is already inspiring me to create some exciting new projects!

In The Flower Hunter, Lucy Hunter takes us on an inspirational journey through a year in her garden and artist’s studio set among the mountains of North Wales. 

Lucy's evocative, gently humorous words accompany her glorious photographs and exquisite floral arrangements, as she encourages the reader to marvel at the intricate cycles of the natural world, develop their own innate creativity, and to look for beauty in the everyday. 

Her garden provides the raw materials for Lucy's floral artistry - breathtaking naturalistic arrangements with all the painterly beauty and flourish of a Dutch still life.

Simple projects accompany Lucy's text, from drying garden flowers for an autumnal wreath to making your own journals and natural dyes to assembling lavish arrangements that showcase the voluptuous beauty of garden roses. Lucy believes that we all have a creative voice buried deep within. The Flower Hunter will encourage you to find your own creativity and help it to blossom.

Lucy Hunter has a Fine Art BA (Hons) degree and over 20 years' experience working as an award-winning landscape designer, floral artist, and self-taught photographer. Passionate about her garden and the natural landscape, Lucy is constantly exploring ways to soften the boundaries between inside and out, capturing transitory shifts in nature and the seasons. Lucy knows what plants work together, the soil conditions they need to thrive and understands how composition, form, texture and scale work to create a standout garden.

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The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
The Grater Good
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The Grater Good

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Flip Grater is a renowned kiwi singer/songwriter, who boasts her own Indie record label and owns Grater Goods, a plant-based delicatessen based in central Christchurch. In her professional life she is a successful chef and recipe writer, developing her vegan recipes and Grater Goods products that are sold in retailers throughout Aotearoa. In her precious spare time you’ll find her chilling with French husband Youssef and five-year-old daughter Anaïs.

The Grater Good cookbook highlights food that is truly delicious and about indulgence, yet happens to be good for you and the planet. Over 60 European-inspired, adaptable dishes, ranging from Seitan sausages, cassoulets and breads to super easy spreadable cheeses, pates, crackers, delectable desserts and plant-based baking and cooking.

These recipes are edible activism, ethical hedonism. They’re mostly unfussy, unpretentious and shareable. Flip encourages you to gather around tables, break bread and leave a ton of crumbs like the French do.

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Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
Flowers For Friends
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Flowers For Friends

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This is a book about flower arranging from the perspective of a gardener.

Harvesting from the garden means short, wonky stems, bruised petals, insects crawling out of blooms and the open invitation to claim a weed or vege as vase fodder. Flowers for Friends is both a reflection, and story of the seasons brought indoors by Julia Atkinson-Dunn when harvesting from her garden and foraging in Canterbury, New Zealand.

Written in her signature casual tone (as seen in her first book Petal Power), Julia offers an accessible guide to picking, conditioning and arranging home- grown treasures, celebrating their quirks and encouraging unexpected combinations. Seasonal chapters profile arrangements she has made, detailing plants in season and inviting readers to play without the hunt for perfection, or restraint.

 SPECIFICATIONS

Size: 260 x 200 mm, portrait Pages: 192

Cover: Paperback with specialist thick ‘linen’ texture stock, gatefold and embossed title

Binding: Stitched and sewn

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Sunny - The Book
Sunny - The Book
Sunny - The Book
Sunny - The Book
Sunny - The Book
Sunny - The Book
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Sunny - The Book

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The Sunny stories are strands of the greatest love story ever told.

Laced together within the tapestry we find ourselves a part of – connected by our breath and the rhythm in our chests.

Like strokes of golden sunlight, they are glimpses into the wonder and the ordinary of the great Author.

This book magnifies the power of his stories and reminds us of the power of ours.

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The Gift Of A Cuddle - Board Book
The Gift Of A Cuddle - Board Book
The Gift Of A Cuddle - Board Book
The Gift Of A Cuddle - Board Book
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The Gift Of A Cuddle - Board Book

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Our classic story, abridged in board format for even littler ones. This book is the perfect introduction to our characters and its thick board pages makes it a wonderful gift for a very little person. 

The Gift of a Cuddle

Told by a grown up trying to make the perfect cuddle for their little one, this book is about all of the wonderful things cuddles can do.

A treasured family keepsake, from baby to beyond. 100% New Zealand written and illustrated. 

14cm x 14cm board book, made to withstand little hands. 

 

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Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
Got You Some Kisses - Board Book
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Got You Some Kisses - Board Book

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Our classic story, abridged in board format for even littler ones. This book is the perfect introduction to our characters and its thick board pages makes it a wonderful gift for a very little person.

I Got You Some Kisses

When a busy day draws you apart, these kisses will bring you home

Take your little one on a trip to the ends of the earth and scoop up all the kisses you find along the way. Together, you’ll travel from the hills of Peru, to deep outer space and discover that love has no bounds - and that kisses can never, ever run out.  

 

14cm x 14cm board book, made to withstand little hands. 

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