Old MacDonald's Farm (Board)

Donovan Bixley

Old Macdonald had a farm e-i-e-i-o Everyone knows the song. But now the farm and animals are in New Zealand and old Macdonald has a Swanndri and gumboots. Donovan Bixley's illustrations depict the beautiful New Zealand landscape with farm animals! But what are those crazy animals up to?...

Roderick Finlayson - A Man from Another World

Roderick Finlayson (1904-1992), storyteller and prophet, was one of the pioneering New Zealand writers who emerged in the 1930s. Vincent O'Sullivan once described him as 'our first writer to move with any ease or authenticity among the most vital traditions this country has'. Brown Man's Burden, his fir...