The holidays may be over, but have no fear, Wellington City Libraries always has fantastic new books in stock for your viewing and reading pleasure. Come on down to your local library and check out what’s new in our junior non fiction collection, especially some must have new reads about the Olympics, which you should get your hands on before the games officially start:
Travel the world Atlas.
Take a trip around the world and back again where you can expand your geographical knowledge and stimulate curiosity with this delightful map book. Filled with fascinating, bite-sized facts about the landscape and the culture of each geographical region. Great for children over 6 years old.
Superbug.
Grab hold of this book and read all about the biggest, fastest, deadliest creepy crawlies on the planet.
My Little Book Tractors.
Packed full of cool photos and fascinating facts about tractors. Perfect for reluctant readers and young children interested in tractors and automobiles
Pokemon visual companion.
Pokemon madness has taken over the library, especially with the release of this fantastic Pokemon guide. Here is your chance to really catch all the Pokémon you can find, as uncover amazing artwork, fascinating facts and comical anecdotes. This is truly a must have reference for every Pokemon fan!
Olympic Sport: The Whole Muscle-Flexing Story.
From running a marathon to beating your friends at basketball or being the bendiest gymnast around, find out everything you ever wanted to know about sports and games and what it is that makes athletes the best at what they do. A must have read to have in time for the Olympics.
Olympic Expert.
Read this book and discover record breaking sprints of 100m legend Usain Bolt, Gymnast Nadia Comenaeci’s perfect ten, Bob Beamon’s amazing long jump and David Weir’w wheelchair racing heroics and much, much more! This book is also crammed full of facts and statistics, quotes, trivia and lots of other essential information for every Olympic fan. Grab it quick before someone else does.
Minecraft : the survivors’ book of secrets.
The latest instalment of Minecraft as arrived in the form of Minecraft : the survivors’ book of secrets. This Official Minecraft book contains collective knowledge of the Survivors – an underground group of Minecraft experts who’ve been around since the early days of alpha. Out in the field you’ll learn how to stalk your enemies, how to master the art of practical munitions and how to crush any opponent in hand-to-hand combat.
Grace Hopper : queen of computer code / written by Laurie Wallmark ; illustrated by Katy Wu.
