New Zealand History Living Books

• The Story of New Zealand by A.H. Reed

• Cook’s Cook: The Cook who Cooked for Captain Cook by Gavin Bishop

• Our Nation’s Story: A Course of British History – Standard IV Whitcombe’s Primary History Series

• Our Empire Story by H.E. Marshall

• Two Peoples, One Land: A History of Aotearoa/New Zealand by Elsie Locke

• The Story of New Zealand by Judith Bassett, Keith Sinclair and Marcia Stenson

• The Quest of Captain Cook by Millicent E. Selsam

• Explore Aotearoa by Bronwen Wall

• How the Maoris Came by A.W. Reed

• How the White Men Came To New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• Everybody’s Story of New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• The Story of Northland by A.W. Reed

• The Story of Early Dunedin by A.W. Reed

• The Story of Hawke’s Bay by A.W. Reed

• The story of the Kauri by A.W. Reed

• Walks in Maoriland Byways by A.W. Reed

• CAPTAIN COOK IN NEW ZEALAND: extracts from THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COOK giving a full account in his own words of his adventures and discoveries in New Zealand by James Cook (Edited by A.H. & A.W. Reed)

• Captain Cook in Australia edited by A.W. Reed

• Living in a Maori Village  by A.W. Reed

• Games the Maoris Played A. by A.W. Reed

• Myths and Legends of Maoriland by A.W. Reed

• Wonder Tales of Maoriland by A.W. Reed

• Maori Tales of Long Ago by A.W. Reed

• How the Maoris Came by A.W. Reed

• How the Maoris Lived by A.W. Reed

• How the White Men Came by A.W. Reed  

• Pastoral Farming in New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• Roads in New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• Islands of the Pacific by A.W. Reed

• Myths and Legends of the Pacific by A.W. Reed

• How Captain Cook Came to New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• Whaling in Early New Zealand by A.W. Reed

• Sidelights on New Zealand History by A.W. Reed

• The Impact of Christianity on the Maori People by A.W. Reed

• Auckland – The City of the Seas by A.W. Reed

• The Story of New Zealand Place Names by A.W. Reed

• Folk Tales of New Zealand: The Legends of the Maoris by Mattie A Adair

• The Runaway Settlers by Elsie Locke

• The End of the Habour by Elsie Locke

• Curtain Raiser to a Colony by Cecil and Celia Mason

• With Scott to the Pole by Howard Marshall

• The Parkhurst Boys by Margaret Beames

• Po-ling: The Cook from Ti-Tree Point by Colin Kane Bell

• Wild Manes in the Afternoon by Mary Cox

• The Children in the Bush by Ruth Dallas

• The Wild Boy in the Bush by Ruth Dallas

• The Big Flood in the Bush by Ruth Dallas

• Holiday in the Bush by Ruth Dallas

• Shining Rivers by Ruth Dallas

• Jacky Nobody by Anne De Roo

• The Bat’s Nest by Anne De Roo

• Traveller by Anne De Roo

• Earthquake Town by Beverly Dunlop

• Kauri by John T Diamond and David Lowe

• New Zealand’s Story in Stamps by Gordon Ell

• New Zealand Ghost Towns and Glimpses of the Past by Gordon Ell

• Rhys Griffiths Read Aloud Stories Volumes 1 & 2

• Druscilla by Clarice England

• Captain John Niven by Bernard Fergusson

• The Springing Fern by Roderick Finlayson

• School Bulletin Series by Roderick Finlayson
  

  • The Coming of the Musket

  • The Coming of the Pakeha

  • The Golden Years

  • The Return of the Fugitives

  • Changes in the Pa

  • The New Harvest

• Laya by Bernard Gadd

• Dare Not Fail by Bernard Gadd

• The Gully that Gabriel Found by Diane Hebley

• Otago Goldrush by Diane Hebley

• Jock Mackenzie and his Dog by Diane Hebley

• The Ballad of Young Nick by Diane Hebley

• Captain Cook’s Landfall, 1769

• No One Went to Town by Phyllis Johnston

• Black boots and Buttonhooks by Phyllis Johnston

• A Comet in the Sky by Phyllis Johnston

• After the War by Bob Kerr

• Explorer Zach by Elsie Locke

• Journey Under Warning by Elsie Locke

• The Kauri and the Willow by Elsie Locke

• A Canoe in the Mist by Elsie Locke

• Prehistoric New Zealand and its People by Beverley McCulloch

• Ihaka and the Summer Wandering by Joanna Orwin

• Ihaka and the Prophecy by Joanna Orwin

• The Guardian of the Land by Joanna Orwin

• Captives and Castaways by Winifred Owen

• New Zealand Warrior Series: Parihaka by Kathryn Rountree

• New Zealand Warrior Series: Ruapekapeka Pa by Kathryn Rountree

• New Zealand Warrior Series: Moremonui by Kathryn Rountree

• Jessie Jenkin’s Diary by Kathryn Rountree

• Jimmy and the Bridge by Kenneth Saunders

• Green Gold by Eve Sutton

• Johnny Sweep by Eve Sutton

• Tuppenny Brown by Eve Sutton

• Moa Hunter by Eve Sutton

• Surgeon’s Boy by Eve Sutton

• New Zealand Explorers by Philip Temple

• Presenting New Zealand: An Illustrated History (wonderful picture book for young children.  Not necessarily a ‘living book’.)

Are you wanting to teach your children history from living books? Please check out my history overview.

https://www.cmhomeschoolnz.com/category/new-zealand-history-curriculumresources