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Welcome to the Puffin Book Club! Puffin is the home of some of the very best stories for young readers (and readers who are young at heart!). Here you’ll discover magical adventures and fascinating characters, built to spark a lifelong love of reading in your little one. Read on and remember, there’s always time for stories.

Win 1 of 2 copies of Little Hector and the Big Idea

Join Little Hector on a grand adventure! Enter now to win 1 of 2 copies of Little Hector and the Big Idea by Ruth Paul ...
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Little Hector and the Big Idea | Book Review

If you’re wanting to raise kids who not only care about the world in which they live but have some kind of kid friendly idea of what’s one problem and ...
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Written by Ruth Paul

In his second adventure, Little Hector takes on a huge challenge – fishing nets and plastic rubbish are endangering his beautiful bay. The situation seems impossible when, suddenly, the tiny dolphin has a big idea…

Little Hector schemes to stop his bay being spoiled with bottles, bags, and dangerous tangling nets in this sparkling sequel to Little Hector and the Big Blue Whale.

Little Hector’s games with his friends keep getting spoilt. When it’s not by dangling, tangling fishing nets, it’s by a mess of plastic trash. He wants to make the bay safe for all the marine creatures to play in again — but how will one little dolphin tackle such a BIG problem?

Find out what we can all do to help keep our coastal waters beautiful and safe for Little Hector and his friends in this delightful sequel to Little Hector and the Big Blue Whale by Ruth Paul, the award-winning author of I am Jellyfish.

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More adventure awaits your little reader with these amazing kids books, each a past book of the month.

Awesome Books for Kiwi Babies | Book Review

My Body, and Animals, are two of a series of books written and illustrated by Matthew and Fraser Williamson which teach our little learners names, numbers and colours in both ...
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Abigail and The Birth of The Sun | Book Review

Such a familiar story to many of us, a kid full of wonder about the universe around them with as many questions about it as there are stars in the ...
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Dinosaur Hunter | Book Review

There's no beating around the bush with this book, there's no swish went the wind and thwack went the hammer, boom went the dynamite and tack tack went the chisel, ...
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The Cat From Muzzle | Book Review

The Cat From Muzzle traces the true story of a high-country cat’s epic, five-week journey home to New Zealand's most remote station ...
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Make the most of the loveable characters and exciting adventures from our books of the month with these fun activities. Click the images below, download, print and let their little imaginations continue to grow.

Dinosaur Hunter

The Dinosaur Hunter is a story about one incredible New Zealander. There are many incredible New Zealanders. Now your child can write their own fact sheet about their own Kiwi hero!

Abigail and the Birth of the Sun

After exploring with Abigail and letting their imagination run wild through space, your child can continue the adventure with this fun colouring-in activity.

My Body for Kiwi Babies

Now your child has been learning the English and Maori terms for their body thanks to the wonderful visuals in My Body for Kiwi Babies, you can help make learning even more fun with this great printable game.

Little Hector activity pack

A tonne of fun awaits your little one with this activity pack full of colouring pages, drawing activities and ‘spot the…’ games.

Click the image to download the full activity pack.

The Cat From Muzzle

Now your child has fallen in love with Dwayne the loveable tabby cat from The Cat From Muzzle, they can explore their creativity further with our free downloadable colouring page.