Hey kids, there is a special family day coming up in June!
Sunday 8 June, 10am-3pm: Free Family Day in Newtown
Children’s book authors, illustrators and storytellers will be performing in a jam-packed schedule for kids and their caregivers at the Storylines Festival Free Family Day. Special guests include: Joy Cowley, Mrs Wishy Washy and Hairy Maclary. All the activities change every 30 minutes. So come along on Sunday 8th of June, 10am – 3pm. It’s at the Te Whaea National Dance & Drama Centre, Hutchison Road, Newtown. It’s going to be a day of free fun and excitement for all the family. Look out for us there! Come say ‘hello’ to us! It will be loads of fun!
NZ Post Book Awards finalist – Non Fiction category
Which New Zealand Spider? by Andrew Crowe
This handy guide to New Zealand spiders is a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards. Clear, colourful illustrations support informative descriptions of the spiders. Andrew Crowe concisely describes and also provides advice on finding various species of spider.
An entertaining and useful guide which is a strong contender for the non fiction award.This review comes from: http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz
Nim is a young girl who lives with her father who is a scientist. Because he studies the sea the two of them live on an island all on their own – no neighbours or shops or movie theatres! When her dad goes to sea leaving Nim on her own, she has to cope with one disaster after another and finally calls on the writer of her favourite storybook hero to come and help her when her dad doesn’t return. What she doesn’t know is that the author is really a woman who suffers from agoraphobia (never leaves her house) and so she begins her own adventure to try to save Nim. A great movie with adventure and fun all the way through.
Hey guys make sure you come to Civic Square tomorrow at 10.45am (17th of May) to. . . . . follow the ‘Pied Piper’ into Wellington City Libraries and listen to the reading of Gavin Bishop’s ‘Rats’ ! Make your rat mask and tail at home or school, and bring them along to Civic Sqaure. See you there!
New Zealand Post Book Awards finalist – junior fiction category
The Mad Tadpole Adventure by Melanie Drewery, illustrations by Jenny Cooper.
Maddie has an “amazing tadpole” – amazing because she started off all “round and fishy”, and the next day she had two back legs. Of course Isabella Princess Big Eyes grows into the inevitable frog and the story continues…..
Junior primary children will certainly laugh at this humourous story about Maddie’s active imagination and her love for her pet.
Jenny Cooper’s illustrations are a perfect match for the story.
This review comes from: http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz
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Happy reading!
I came across this book that doesn’t make use of words but just single letters to form sentences. The title itself is just made up of single letters – C D B ! And it has a bee flying by with a man pointing at it. And it continues with – D B S A B-Z B. Pretty cool really. Here are some entries in the book which you could try and decipher!
O U Q-T!
U R A B-U-T.
S N-E-1 N?
I M N A T-P.
Having fun yet? Here are the answers:
Oh you cutie!
You are a beauty!
Is anyone in?
I am in a teepee.
If you’d like to read more like this check out the book in the childrens’ picture book area. Its C D B! by William Steig. C U!
New Zealand Post Book Awards 2008 finalist – Junior Fiction Category
The Dumpster Saga by Craig Harrison
It is refreshing to come upon a book where siblings, despite the normal irritations, have a friendly and supportive relationship. Not only the siblings in this book get on OK; Mum and Dad do too. And the children are able to talk to the parents. And the parents can even talk to the children!
All of the above are just part of the story. Ben and his younger brother Ches are involved in an adventure involving aliens, a supposedly toy helmet, mysterious secret agents, a dumpster (is the use of this word a clue to the target market?) and lots of one-liners that made me laugh out loud.
A good year 5 reader would enjoy this, but definitely suitable for readers from year 6 and up.
This review comes from: http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz
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NZ Post Book Awards finalist – Non Fiction category
Weather Watch New Zealand
By Sandra Carrod, published by Reed 2007
Why is the West Coast so wet? Why is Wellington so windy? Why is Auckland’s weather so changeable?
Here at last is a weather book with all NZ content. A large format book, it is attractively set out and generously illustrated with diagrams and photographs (all NZ). Interesting facts and explanations are accompanied by simple practical activities.
A two-page map of NZ on which the chapters are rearranged according to location follows the contents page. A detailed index completes the package.
This is a great book, which would be enjoyed by all young NZ weather watchers and, has also been shortlisted in the non-fiction section of the New Zealand Post Awards for Children and Young People.
This review comes from: http://createreaders.natlib.govt.nz
