Pictura

Some of the lovely board books for the littlest people to hit the shelves recently. Open Saturday 10-2:30pm. Tis beautiful and sunny out there! ☀️

Fresh straight out the oven. Delicious!
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The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston.

“Dictionary wishes she could tell a story just like the other books. So one day she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is, she thinks, that an adventure is finally happening on her very own pages! But what will she do when everything gets out of control, all in a jumble, and her characters collide causing the most enormous tantrum to explode. This isn’t what she wanted at all! How on earth will she find sense in all this chaos? Her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again.”
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$30 online & in store 👋

New .perrin gracing the shelves! Always exciting. This book is an homage to the most incredible children she’s met - so far! All different, all remarkable. Boop my stories for a flick-through!

Oh, Are You Awake? From & A sweet story about 🍭 candy dreams & settling down to sleep 😴 $19 in paperback in store & online now.

Piki te Ora! A mindfulness journal for tamariki from .gratitude. Heaps of activities and ideas to help children (and grown-ups) learn all about the different sides of yourself - and how they make you happy - from your whānau, to moving your body, to caring for others and the environment. Pai tū, pai hinga - give it a go! Boop my stories for a flick-through ✨

Some gorgeous landed this morning including the latest playbook from 🍄 My Big Playbook: Nature introduces first words, colours, numbers, shapes & more. Lovely felt flaps and cut-outs for little people to enjoy. Beautiful! 😻

Pictura is closed next week for a wee break. Online orders placed after this weekend will leave on Monday 1 July. Subscriptions will leave as normal the same day. Otherwise we’re open today as normal. Mānawatia a Matariki! ✨

The new Illustrators Annual 2024 is now in stock here at Pictura ☀️ A chunky catalogue bringing together 78 artists from 31 countries selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the this year. Inspiring stuff!

Detective Beans: The Case of the Missing Hat!! Been looking forward to this for ages 💕 New full colour graphic novel from Aotearoa’s 🥳
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Detective Beans is available 24/7* for all your mystery solving and ice-cream taste testing needs.
* Except on school days, and after bedtime.
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Out now! Five Wee Pūteketeke has officially hit the shelves 🥰 If you’ve placed a pre-order with Pictura it will be in the post to you tomorrow. Written by & illustrated by yours truly () Thanks to ❤️ Remember $1 from every book goes straight to ! 🌳🐦

Baby swifties! ✨ The new Little People Big Dreams: Taylor’s Version is in stock now 🦋
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An inspiring biography for kids to explore Taylor’s dazzling music journey so far. Learn how she went from little country dreamer to bigtime performer!
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Fingerprint fun inspired by famous paintings!

Bursting with easy fingerprinting ideas, this fun activity book comes with its own inkpad of seven bright colours. Inspired by famous paintings, you can decorate hats, fill vases with sunflowers, dot markings on tigers and dragons, and even create your own art show. Simple text introduces each activity, and you can see all the original paintings at the back of the book. A spiral binding means pages lie flat for easy printing.

Online & in store now, $23.
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🔔 Lightfall alert! 🔔 Book 3 from Tim Probert is out now ✨ This hugely popular series for kiddos aged 8-12 or so is full of friendship and adventure with immersive, beautiful full colour illustrations. Great fun. $25 online & in store!

So happy to announce Five Wee Pūteketeke, written by Nicola Toki and illustrated by… errrr me! The book comes out June 18th! Huge thanks to the unstoppable team at and Nicola Toki (CE of no less) for her gorgeous story based on the classic Five Little Ducks nursery rhyme. $1 from every book goes to Forest & Bird. Pre-order online now!

https://www.picturabooks.co.nz/products/five-wee-puteketeke

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The new Frank & Bert is here and it is about BISCUITS 🍪 Caramel crunch biscuits no less, and the story of how they go missing 👀 $28 online & in store now!

Lovely Lily Halfmoon is back with book two: The Witches’ Council 🔮 Gorgeous graphic novels from Both books in stock now!

Congrats to Elijah who has won our comics competition in cahoots with games! This was lots of fun - the entries were hilarious and I loved reading through them all. Thank you to everyone who entered! Keep creating 🥰🥰🥰

My Baby Sister is a Diplodocus 🦕
A recent release from .petit.dessine & 🩷 $30 in store & online!

Open Thu | Fri | Sat 10am-2:30pm

‘…A new sibling story within the imaginative world of a toddler. We share a brother’s excitement then disappointment in his new baby sister. But his love of dinosaurs opens up a new path. By imagining her as a dinosaur, he connects with her, making room for everyone in the family.

Vivid contemporary illustrations and surprising perspectives complement a spare narrative. Affecting vignettes of this new family, with its little baby tucked up in the centre of the story, combine with graphic/comics elements in the storytelling as we share the emotion of each moment unfolding.In this eye-catching neon-bright picture book, a brother finds an inventive way to connect with his new baby sister through his love of dinosaurs.’

PSA: Taking a wee breaky break next weekend! Online orders will leave as per usual outside the public holidays 🐣📚🐰

How do Meerkats order Pizza? 🍕 This fantastic fully-illustrated book is packed full of facts about animals and the scientists who study them. Peep my stories for more internal images! Very cool this one. Will appeal to the graphic novel fans out there as well as animal lovers 🦁

A beautiful adaptation of The Little Prince in picture book format ✨ $20 in paperback, available now 🌙

Had to utilise the sofa to showcase this guy! Space Adventures and Dinosaur Adventures, fold-out board books for lil adventurers, illustrated by 🦕

✨ Endpapers appreciation post ✨ from ‘s new book, The Bee Connection 🐝 ‘Inventive illustrations and an empowering story combine to introduce young readers to the world of bees, creative thinking and problem-solving.’

Discover over 50 musical instruments in this new book from 🎶 Each page features a QR code linking to a short sample of the instrument on YouTube. Very cool!

Paperback edition of One Little Word in store now 💕 One Little Word ‘tells the story of how a big, hairy argument gets in between two best friends’. A big hairy monster in fact, that the friends have to work together to shrink! And I love love love Allison Colpoy’s illustrations, big Pictura fav! $19 in store now.