We'll make a bespoke bundle just for you, or you can browse below for inspiration.
Every bundle is carefully chosen by our team of bibliophiles, to leave readers with that magical, heart-fluttery, anything-is-possible new book feeling.
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Kids Bundles | Library Starters | Adults Bundles
Time to level up! Tell us what your kiddo's loving right now, and we'll use it as inspiration for a pile that pushes their reading further.
3 books $60 | 5 books $90 | 8 books $145
Order The Launching Pad
Are they reading faster than you can get to the bookstore? Stockpile their library with a series! This bundle includes Book #1 from a bunch of our favourites, to bust their reading world wide open.
3 books $60 | 5 books $90 | 8 books $145
Bugs. Trucks. Dentistry. We've seen it all. Indulging weird obsessions is a great way to get reluctant readers hooked. Just give us a theme and we'll go nuts.
$60-$145 depending on your reader
Maybe it's beautiful pictures that make your reader's face light up. Let us assemble our most spectacular illustrated works for your visual learner. The level of complexity is up to you.
$60-$145 depending on your reader
They're reading way beyond their age. Let us choose our favourite new releases from the Confident Readers section: perfect content for under-twelves who read like over-twelves.
3 books $60 | 5 books $90 | 8 books $145
Order The Confident Reader
Stand-out, standalone mysteries that you'll want to read too. These are not your regular whodunnits. Strictly limited to tales that kept our children's team guessing, you'd better have your wits about you.
3 books $60 | 5 books $90 | 8 books $145
Are they a coder? A Chemist? A budding engineer? This bundle includes a perfect mixture of practical activities and mind-bending fiction.
$60-$145 depending on your reader
Books that teach you how to do something are one of the cleverest tools to get a practical kiddo reading. Choose from crafty, foodie, sciencey or request something entirely unique.
$60-$145 depending on your reader
Assembled with a new baby or very special birthday in mind, our Library Starter bundles give young people everything they need to set out on a lifelong reading adventure.
Empathy. Bravery. Ingenuity. The world needs more of all three! One of our most treasured bundles, this will fill a bookshelf with diverse and inspiring role-models. Make it a go-to gift year on year: we'll choose content that grows up with them.
Set your own budget
from $90
Everything you need to foster Māori language in your home. Includes translated favourites alongside contemporary gems. A beautiful gift for fluent speakers and learners alike.
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from $90
Give a collection of your favourite childhood author. We'll include all the classics and uncover some lesser known treasures that might even be new to you!
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from $90
Order The Collected Works
Fill their shelves with literature's most sumptuous fantasy worlds. An adventure from the Faraway Tree to Neverland, via Diagon Alley, The Shire, Earthsea and beyond.
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from $90
A bookshelf that shatters the Bechdel Test.
Can you think of a more incredible gift than a library of legendary females? We can't.
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from $90
Strangely wonderful picture books you've probably never heard of— chosen by our children's buyer, Cait
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from $90
Includes a selection by each of our incredible staff, including a note on why they love it so!
3 books $90| 5 books $150 |8 books $240
A sample of NZ's best new fiction or non-fiction reads, curated by our Jenna — who has previously judged the fiction category for Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
3 books $110| 5 books $180 |8 books $285
Order Read Aotearoa
Award winners and under-the-radar gems. We'll assemble the year's highlights into a bundle of essential reading.
3 books $90| 5 books $150 |8 books $240
Order Best of the Year
For philosophers, artists and scientists: a blend of experimental fiction and urgent non-fiction writing.
3 books $110| 5 books $180 |8 books $285
No capes around here— these comics are all grown up. Chosen by our most astute graphic novel geeks.
2 books $85| 4 books $170 |6 books $250
A pile of crime reads for the serious thrill seeker. We only include new releases in this one, so even fiendish readers will be catered to.
3 books $110| 5 books $180 |8 books $285
Fascinating, out-of-this-world non fiction— ideal when they're really hard to buy for.
We'll select a mixture of true stories, popular science and current affairs.
3 books $90| 5 books $150 |8 books $240