Archive for the ‘Reviews & Recommendations’ Category

New adventures for Nanny Piggins!

Jan
31

In Nanny Piggins: The pursuit of justice by R. A. Spratt, Nanny gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service.  But she isn’t the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow.

More hilarious adventures from the very naughty, very sarcastic Ms. Piggins.

A Second Dose of Origami Yoda

Jan
19

If you had enjoyed The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger, then you’ll surely like its sequel Darth Paper Strikes Back. It carries the same interesting illustrations inserted cleverly among the pages plus a villain in the person of Darth Paper that Origami Yoda must overcome. Join Tommy as he tries to save Dwight as they battle it out with Harvey, the Darth Paper creator. This time grave times are at hand as Tommy tries to save Dwight from getting kicked out of school. As expected there is the bonus at end of the book in the form of origami instructions for an Emergency Origami Yoda and Darth Paper. May the folds be with you again and beware of the dark side!

Bigfoot is out there!

Jan
12
Posted in Books, Reviews & Recommendations
by debbie

So you want to catch Bigfoot?

Well then this is the book for you. You can become a Bigfoot researcher or be known as a Bigfooter and learn all there is to know about this mysterious creature.

What is Bigfoot? How and where does it live? Does it eat humans?

You don’t have to have a fancy degree to study Bigfoot you just need courage, a high tolerance to offensive odors, and a rock-solid belief in the creature’s existence.

So do you believe? Do you have Bigfoot fever? Then lets go Bigfooting!

Happy New Year!

Jan
12

We hope you are all enjoying your holidays and Santa brought you loads of goodies! 

Will Solvit strikes again in five new fantastic adventures in the Will Solvit mystery series.

 

Will Solvit is a regular ten year old – or so he thought. With the help of his dad’s crazy inventions, Will finds himself with loads of puzzles to solve and mysteries to unravel!   The whole series starts with Will Solvit and the T-rex terror!  Fans of mystery and adventure stories won’t want to miss out on this series.

 

 

Kid’s review by Athena

 

Star style by Sienna Mercer – from the My sister the vampire series.

I like the way she describes the characters as some of them are vampires.  It is fun and exciting to read.

 

Review by Athena

5/5 stars

Gangsta Granny

Dec
22
Posted in Books, Reviews & Recommendations
by Wendy

Gangsta Granny is the latest very funny book by David Walliams.  The last thing Ben wants to do is go to his Granny’s house, but he has to do it every Friday night.  She only ever wants to play scrabble and eat cabbage soup (Yuk!).  But what Ben doesn’t know, but is soon to find out, is that his dear old boring granny used to be an international jewel thief!  The one heist she always wanted to do but never did, was steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.  When Ben finds out he makes a plan to sneak into the Tower of London with his Gangsta Granny.  Do they or don’t they get caught?  You will have to read this really funny book to find out.

Kid’s review by Rewa

Little plum by Rumer Godden

It is full of tricks and pranks that will just make you laugh, like when Belinda goes flying like a hurricane into Ms. Tiffany Jones.  But it’s a really great read and an awesome book!

Review by Rewa

5/5 stars

Kid’s review by Salem

The Lily Pond by Annika Thor

It is a book filled with mixed emotions and passions.  It experiences what it is to be a refugee during World War II

Review by Salem

5/5 stars

Karori BookBusters Christmas Party

Dec
08

With the end of year upon us, celebrations were in full swing at the library as we had our final BookBusters meeting for 2011 and we farewelled our graduating members.  Our christmas party was filled with lots of fun, food and games but also some great reviews too (check out our recommended reads below).  Enjoy your holidays everyone and we hope to see you all in the library again soon!  – Theresa & Jesi

Get Cooking!

Nov
22

If you love cooking or you enjoy watching the cooking programmes on TV especially Junior Master Chef then this book will be just right for you.

The AWW Cooking School for kids is a great book to get you started on learning how to cook. There are great instructions for each recipe with step-by-step pictures for you to follow plus a picture of the finished dish so you will know what it will look like.

But the best thing about this book is it has all the food that kids like to eat. Things like pizza, pasta, eggs, pies, desserts, cakes and snacks. YUM

So what are you waiting for – Get cooking!