The Singing Kiwi


Book Description

Across the line - All bound to go - At the Mataura - Ballad of Captain Cook - Ballad of Davy Gray - Ballad of Stan Graham - Ballad of Kaitawa - Ballad of the kiwi - Banks of the Waikato - Black Billy blues - Black Billy tea - Blow boys blow - The bold and saucy china - The boys of the track - Canterbury jig - The Charleston drum - Cheer boys cheer - Cherry stones - Concertina Joe - Corned beef and cabbage - The day the pub burned down - Death song of the Huntly miners - Down a country road - Driftwood - The drover's dream - The dying bushman 1 - The dying bushman 2 - The dying bushman 3 - Faded pictures - Farewell to Geraldine - Farewell to New Zealand - Farewell to the gold - Farewell to the Grey - The final track - Full and plenty - Glenmore jig - Gone to Maoriland - The good old way - The green new chum - Greenstone Billy - Hands across the sea - Hillsides of Bendigo - The Hokonui Hills - Homeless drifter - How are you, mate? - Hunger in the air - I'm a young man - I've packed my traps - Gabriel's gold - In the morning - Kawarau gold - The KB cannonball - Land ahoy - Land of the west - Last drop of whisky - The latter end of spring - Leatherman - The life of the high country shepherd - Long and friendly road - Long time ago - Man upon the track - Molesworth - Mother Nature's children - A musterer's lament - A new chum out from England - No regrets - Off to the diggings - The old Dunstan track - The old Forty Niner - The old gumdigger's bar - The old identity - Old Jimmy Possum - The old mud hut - The old scrub bull - The old station gate - Pelorus Jack - Poll the grogseller - The ringer's stand - Rocking the cradle - Rose of Red Conroy - A sailor's lament - Shantyman - The shearing's coming round - The shepherd's dream - The shepherd's song - The ships sail in - Shore cry - Smoko - Snowed in - So long mate - Song for Captain Cook - Song of the drover - Southward bound - The springtime brings on the shearing - Springtime in the mountains - The stable lad - The star hotel - Tangiwai disaster - Three blackbirds - Tuapeka gold - The voyage of the buffalo - Walking of the land - Wheels of arrow - When I was a young man - When the tui calls - While the billy boils - Wind in the tussock - Wool away Jack - Wool commandeer - Yorky's run.




Little Kiwi and the Goodnight Sing-Song


Book Description

"Little Kiwi's ready for a snooze, but what's that noise? Lift the flaps and help him find the perfect sleeping spot: no birds, no frogs, no bugs, and no pesky noises!"--Publisher information.




If You're a Kiwi and You Know it


Book Description

"Kiwi-ised version of 'If You're Happy And You Know It' featuring New Zealand animals. If you're a kiwi and you know it, dig for worms, If you're a spider and you know it, scuttle about, If you're a tui and you know it, sing a song, If you're a dolphin and you know it, dive and play, If you're a pukeko and you know it, strut around, If you're an eel and you know it, slither away, If you're a fantail and you know it, flit about, If you're a praying mantis and you know it, catch a fly, If you're a horse and you know it, kick your hooves, If you're a seal and you know it, flap your flippers, If you're a penguin and you know it, waddle around, If you're a tuatara and you know it, stay very still, If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you're happy and you know it then you really ought to show it, If you'e happy and you know it, clap your hands"--Publisher information. Suggested level: junior."Kiwi-ised version of 'If You're Happy And You Know It' featuring New Zealand animals. If you're a kiwi and you know it, dig for worms, If you're a spider and you know it, scuttle about, If you're a tui and you know it, sing a song, If you're a dolphin and you know it, dive and play, If you're a pukeko and you know it, strut around, If you're an eel and you know it, slither away, If you're a fantail and you know it, flit about, If you're a praying mantis and you know it, catch a fly, If you're a horse and you know it, kick your hooves, If you're a seal and you know it, flap your flippers, If you're a penguin and you know it, waddle around, If you're a tuatara and you know it, stay very still, If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands, If you're happy and you know it then you really ought to show it, If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands"--Publisher information. Suggested level: junior.




Ten Kooky Kiwi


Book Description

A New Zealand take on the traditional song 'Ten Green Bottles' where there are ten silly kiwi doing various activities, one dropping off each page until there's only one left. Suggested level: junior.




Little Kiwi and the Noisy Morning


Book Description

Early in the morning, just before dawn, the first sweet sounds of singing birds floated through the quiet forest - Join Little Kiwi and Little Sister as they take a walk through the bush. Lift the flaps to help them find all the birds that make the dawn chorus. Morning time in the bush can be very noisy - and full of surprises!







The Little Black Kiwi Songbook


Book Description

This collection features a vast range of 130 classic and contemporary New Zealand songs, from Crowded House to the Datsuns. All the songs have been arranged in the original key from the actual recordings. Complete with full lyrics, guitar symbols and pull-out chord chart. Small and easy to fit into your guitar case, the durable black vinyl cover means you will be using this book for many years.




Good-bye Maoriland


Book Description

They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden crosses be swept away – We'll never forget our boys. – Jane Morison, ‘We'll never forget our boys', 1917 Be it ‘Tipperary' or ‘Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside the human experience of war.




Les Cleveland


Book Description

Les Cleveland is one of New Zealand's finest photographers... This book surveys six decades of Cleveland's work, with 60 stunning images printed in large-format duotone. His work from the 1950s and 60s documents a way of life in Westland that has now largely disappeared as well as distinctive and culturally important buildings in Wellington.--From book flap.




The Kiwi Hokey Tokey


Book Description

You put your pokey beak in, you put your pokey beak out, you put your pokey beak in and you SHAKE it all about. Join the fun as the cool-as Kiwi clan invites friends to a dance party down on the farm. With downloadable song by Pio Terei, sung to the popular children's favourite.