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Top 100 NZ Children's Books

Description: Top 100 New Zealand Children's Books of the 20th Century as compiled by Lorraine Orman, children's literature expert & writer in 2000. This list was on her website for several years and also published in the Storylines NZ yearbook, 2001.

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1

The Cradle Ship

13 members

½ 3.6

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2

Six Little New Zealanders

14 members

4

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3

by Isabel M. Peacocke

1 member

½ 3.5

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4

Rifle and tomahawk

7 members

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5

15 members

1 review

3.9

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6

Hilda at School

by Phillis Garrard

16 members

1 review

3

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7

The Book of Wiremu

by Stella Morice

5 members

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8

Myths and Legends of Maoriland

32 members

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9

14 members

4

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10

Falter Tom and the Water Boy

by Maurice Duggan

15 members

½ 4.3

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11

The Year of the Shining Cuckoo

9 members

1 review

4

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12

Turi : the story of a little boy

by Lesley Cameron Powell

4 members

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13

The Runaway Settlers

83 members

5 reviews

3.8

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14

The boy and the taniwha

7 members

4

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15

A Lion in the Meadow

by Margaret Mahy

214 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

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16

The Duck in the Gun

93 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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17

The First Margaret Mahy Story Book

by Margaret Mahy

10 members

½ 3.5

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18

The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate

by Margaret Mahy

160 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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19

Again the bugles blow

by Ronald Leonard Bacon

10 members

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20

My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes

361 members

3 reviews

4.1

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21

Crayfishing with grandmother

by Jillian Mary Mayer Bagnall

5 members

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22

The Witch in the Cherry Tree

by Margaret Mahy

75 members

3 reviews

4

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23

The house on the cliffs

8 members

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24

The House of the People

by Ronald Leonard Bacon

8 members

3

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25

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

by Ronda Armitage

319 members

3 reviews

4.2

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26

11 members

1 review

4

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27

Take the Long Path

by Joan De Hamel

17 members

3.8

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28

The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers

by Margaret Mahy

201 members

2 reviews

4.1

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29

Under the Mountain

232 members

6 reviews

4.2

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30

43 members

4

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31

The Kuia and the Spider

by Patricia Grace

110 members

½ 4.6

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32

by Gavin Bishop

20 members

4

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33

Who Sank the Boat?

by Pamela Allen

1,550 members

20 reviews

4

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34

by Margaret Mahy

372 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

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35

by Gavin Bishop

14 members

4

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36

The Halfmen of O

192 members

3 reviews

3.8

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37

Night Race to Kawau

38 members

½ 3.6

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38

Bertie And The Bear

by Pamela Allen

275 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

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39

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

1,660 members

17 reviews

4.2

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40

The Tree Witches

by Gwenda Turner

12 members

4

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41

14 members

2 reviews

3

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42

The Poetry Girl

by Beverley Dunlop

11 members

4

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43

by Margaret Mahy

900 members

42 reviews

4.1

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44

by Caroline Macdonald

18 members

3.8

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45

The fish of our fathers

13 members

½ 3.5

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46

by Joan De Hamel

40 members

4

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47

New Zealand ABC (Picture Puffin Books)

by Gwenda Turner

20 members

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48

A Lion in the Night (Picture Puffin)

by Pamela Allen

225 members

1 review

4.2

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49

The guardian of the land

by Joanna Orwin

14 members

½ 4.5

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50

42 members

2 reviews

4

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51

by Robyn Kahukiwa

34 members

½ 4.7

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52

by Barry Faville

14 members

4

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53

by Margaret Mahy

331 members

11 reviews

3.9

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54

Just An Ordinary Kid (Puffin Books)

15 members

4

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55

by Margaret Mahy

230 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

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56

184 members

4 reviews

4

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57

by William Taylor

33 members

4.2

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58

My Brown Bear Barney

by Dorothy Butler

239 members

4 reviews

3.8

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59

Annie and Moon: A Story

by Miriam Smith

41 members

1 review

4.8

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60

The Mangrove Summer

by Jack Lasenby

11 members

½ 4.5

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61

by Wanda Cowley

1 member

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62

Grandpa's Slippers

139 members

5

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63

Chen Li and the River Spirit

by Anthony Holcroft

4 members

4

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64

Tangaroa's Gift: Te Koha ā Tangaroa

by Mere Whaanga

28 members

2 reviews

3.8

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65

Grandma McGarvey

by Jenny Hessell

16 members

5

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66

Agnes the Sheep

by William Taylor

82 members

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67

by Sherryl Jordan

151 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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68

The Wednesday Wizard

by Sherryl Jordan

78 members

1 review

3.9

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69

Prudence M. Muggeridge, Damp Rat

by Gaelyn Gordon

9 members

4

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70

Bow Down Shadrach

63 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

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71

by Gaelyn Gordon

461 members

6 reviews

3.9

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72

The Little Yellow Digger

by Betty Gilderdale

212 members

4.9

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73

Deepwater Black

27 members

½ 4.3

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74

by Margaret Mahy

122 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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75

The Juniper Game

by Sherryl Jordan

266 members

6 reviews

3.9

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76

117 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

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77

Slide the Corner

41 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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78

by Sherryl Jordan

405 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

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79

A Dolphin in the Bay

by Diana Noonan

22 members

½ 4.5

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80

16 members

3.8

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81

The Best-Loved Bear

by Diana Noonan

167 members

2 reviews

4.2

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82

78 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

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83

by William Taylor

87 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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84

19 members

3 reviews

3.8

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85

by Jack Lasenby

13 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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86

by Janice Marriott

4 members

4

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87

Mechanical Harry

33 members

4.8

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88

The Bantam and the Soldier

by Jennifer Beck

51 members

1 review

4.8

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89

by Kate De Goldi

24 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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90

The Shearwater Bell

by Margaret Beames

19 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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91

Dare Truth or Promise

373 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

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92

Alphabet apartments

by Lesley Moyes

4 members

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93

Fat, Four-Eyed and Useless

18 members

2 reviews

3.8

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94

Because We Were the Travellers

by Jack Lasenby

19 members

4

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95

I Am Not Esther

345 members

17 reviews

4

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96

A Summery Saturday Morning

by Margaret Mahy

425 members

14 reviews

3.9

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97

The Tiggie Tompson Show

30 members

3.9

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98

The House That Jack Built

by Gavin Bishop

40 members

1 review

½ 3.7

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99

The Raging Quiet

by Sherryl Jordan

725 members

19 reviews

4.2

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100

22 members

3.2

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