Kids Blog

Richard Hammond’s Blast Lab is a fantastic new book full of science experiments  from a UK television series of the same name. Richard Hammond is one of the guys from the TopGear television show. I can tell you that the ice cream made in a plastic bag does work and is quick and easy  to do!  The apple pie with no apples looks good plus there are heaps more experiments and interesting science facts to read.

On Saturday 16th of May we had a special performance of the book Duck’s Stuck at the Wellington Central Library, to celebrate the New Zealand Post Book Awards. Heaps of kids came along and had a great time.

The book’s illustrators Ali Teo (left) and John O’Reilly (right) even turned up to watch!

 Keep an eye on this blog to find out about more events!

Check out our homework help page: www.wcl.govt.nz/kids/help.html . You can also try the Any Questions button above. A librarian helps you search for the answer to your homework questions online. The other cool homework help site is World Book Online – all you need is your Wellington City Libraries card to get into this site. All the best with that homework of yours!! Impress those teachers !

To celebrate the New Zealand Post Book Awards festival week, there will be a performance of the book Duck’s Stuck at the Wellington Central Library on Saturday May 16th, 1.30pm. That’s THIS WEEK! It’s totally free and will be a lot of fun, so make sure you come along!

See you there!

Hey guys, we have lots of new fabulous fiction coming in all the time. Check our catalogue to see if the next book in your favourite series is here on our catalogue. Or, if you want to see what new fiction has just arrived in the library check out the Children’s Recent Fiction Picks. Then, if you find the book you have chosen extra extra good, send us a review and nominate it for a Kids Choice! award. Wow! All the cool things you can do! Don’t forget to join one of our bookclubs BookBusters or BookSeekers to meet other kids who like to read too! Who says winter should be dull! Nothing like being snuggled up with a book!

   A new series in the library is very large! 46 centimetres to be exact. Each page of Zoo-ology is covered with wonderful pictures of animals and insects, from sea creatures to birds, from night creatures to large and small creatures. The drawings are bright simple designs, very good for tracing if you are doing a project or just for fun. If you love looking at animals this is a great book to get hold of.

British Dragons are what we most commonly think of when we think of how dragons look. They were often four-legged and winged, though sometimes they had only two legs.

Their wings had membranes, like bats’ wings. And British Dragons had scales that were so hard that no weapon could pierce them, but their stomachs were soft and vulnerable. Sometimes they could even rejoin severed body parts!

The most common colour of the dragons was green. Their legs were muscular and they had strong claws for picking up and carrying off cows and sheep.

The British dragons were very poisonous. They spat venom at their victims rather than injecting them with their fangs. Their blood was poisonous and would kill people on contact. Even their breath was poisonous and would kill people with its fumes. They also breathed fire.

They lived in caves near water. British dragons had a nasty temperament. Each dragon picked on one small town or village. They would burn down houses and crops. They were fond of milk. They would eat cows, sheep and even people!

The library has heaps of books about dragons. Check out the kids’ catalogue for more.

Hey guys! Check out www.freechildrenstories.com. A new story with comments and drawings gets posted every week. It includes the fully Illustrated online story book “The Journey of the Noble Gnarble.” The goal is to be a cool resource for kids. It is always free. Take a look at the site and the storybook!

I’ve found a brilliant book to prove this. Take Me Back is a rip-roaring ride through history from the stone age through to the digital age. The eye-catching artwork is a mishmash incorporating the clever use of collage, crazy comics, glorious graffiti, lustrous illustration, and fantastic photoshopping. Its history presented in a fascinating and humorous way (kind of like the Horrible Histories series but with more colour) that draws you in, making you eager for more. Full marks, I say!

Prepare to be disgusted, revolted and laugh out loud at these hideous facts from our putrid past with 1001 Hideous History Facts.  Did you know that Australian Aborigines have used kangaroo-skin bandages for thousands of years, and on the 25th October 1760, King George II became the second English king to die on the toilet? What about in the 18th century they made a vaccination against smallpox by using pus taken from sores on dairymaid’s hands and rubbing it onto a scratch on the patient’s arm. Yuk, glad they don’t do that anymore!