Kids Blog

Would you like to be always prepared to handle extreme adventures and situations? Get to grips with the most demanding challenges and become utterly knowledgeable in all manner of dangerous situations. The Jungle Explorer action seeker handbook is a wealth of andrenalin pumping information to get you through the toughest situation you might encounter. It comes with a selection of insects that you can eat when faced with survival challenges. It also comes with a…

Warning: 

Reading this book can make normal life seem unbearably boring.

So check out this book and have the adventure of your life.

Yes the 2009 Ripley’s Believe It or Not edition is here. It even has a special glow on the dark cover! It has awesome and mind boggling facts as always. I am always amazed at the unbelievable things that people and animals and nature can come up with. Read on about body oddities, animal antics and the strange but true. See what a man from Ukraine who has size 17 inches shoes and is 8ft and 4 inches tall looks like. What is a twisted tongue? Go on and check this book out I assure you you’ll really enjoy it!

This year, we’re making Kids’ Choice much more exclusive; we’re going to select five Kids’ Choice books per month. This is going to be tough, since you keep sending in heaps of Kids’ Choice reviews for some really cool books, but we’re up to the challenge (so keep reviewing)!

The Kids’ Choice selection for this month is a great collection of fantastic books, from the last book in the really popular, amazing Inkheart trilogy, through one of my all time top favourite books (Howl’s Moving Castle) to yet another one of the Warriors books by Erin Hunter. Those cool cats, everyone loves them! Check out book descriptions and listen to the kids’ choice reviews on the Kids’ Choice page.

I just came across this new book called Out of This World which is a collection of 20, yes 20, science fiction stories! Get ready to confront alien invaders and fly off to distant and unexplored lands. It has the classic story “War of the Worlds” (which is one of my favorites) and “How We were Tracked by a Tripod”. There is a varierty of stories so you’ll never have a boring moment reading it. Why don’t you check it out in the children’s fiction area now.

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Some pirate crews had a code of conduct. All pirates on board would have to obey it. This is an example of pirate law from Charles Johnson’s 18^th century book on pirates.

• Every man has a vote in affairs of the moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions or strong liquors.
• No person to game at cards or dice for money.
• The lights and candles to be put out at eight o’clock at night.
• To keep their piece [musket], pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service.
• No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them.
• To desert the ship in battle was punished with death or marooning.

Check out this book for more.

Have you read A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson? Bill was feeling curious one day about how scientists made discoveries and invented things - so he decided to find out! First he wrote this as a book for adults, and it was so successful he decided to turn it into a big book for kids. It has loads of pictures and facts, and he is really funny too. My favourite parts were the chapters about the stars and the Big Bang. I love space!

I learned heaps of cool stuff, for example, did you know that our Earth is over 4.5 BILLION years old, and that the Moon was formed when an asteroid the size of Mars hit the Earth?! Whoa! How did they ever figure that out? The answers are in this book!

Did you know you can download books from the library website onto your PC or MP3 player? Well, if you didn’t know that and you’re interested you should check out our Downloadable Media page. There are heaps of books to choose from. For example, My Sister Jodie fans can download the book to their PC or WMA player, or they can burn it to CD and listen to it on their stereo!

For information about how to use the downloadable media library visit the Help page. You can take a virtual tour of the library, find out what software and hardware you need, and everything else you need to get going. It’s easy and free and virtually cool!

You may have seen that there’s a new collection in the children’s fiction area at your library, called “Junior Comics”. These will probably be where you normally find your favourite Asterix and Tintin books, but you’ll notice there’s a whole heap more too. For example, there’s Disney’s Kim Possible, The Man and The Puddleman, both by Raymond Briggs, also Lucky Luke, and some easy to read Batman and Spider-man comics.

Check out the Junior Comics collection the next time you’re in the library, it’s awesome! For a complete list of the comics in the collection you can visit the classic catalogue.

Are you interested in how stuff like mobile phones really work? If you are then you’ll love Cool Stuff Exploded. Learn all about gadgetry including things you might see in the future!

The Search for Vile Things (Volume 1) is all about bizarre and gross plants, food, insects and customs from around the world. There are enough disgusting and interesting facts in here to last you at least four weeks.

Also new: books about ballet, rare animals, octopi (octopuses – cool!), and phenomena and unexplainable things. For the latest in children’s non-fiction keep checking My Library – you can see what fiction, picture books, CDs and DVDs we’ve got too!