Rainy days ahead? Check out some of these favourite movie titles =)
Animal adventures and awesome animation. Some of these movies are full of characters we’ve come to know and love over time and some are brand new ideas full of fun and adventure! Ice Age : The great eggscapade tells the tale of a dinosaur egg hatching service, what could possibly go wrong? Easter is only a couple of weeks away, imagine a dinosaur sized Easter egg!
Adventures, supernatural foes and heroes of all shapes and sizes fill the pages of the eBooks available through the library’s Overdrive service. Harry Potter dominates eBooks! Other titles creeping up the ranks are also books that are movies. The recent Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has a great cast featuring Chris O’Dowd, as a moody Dad and Peculiars, Eva Green and Judi Dench get some amazing special effects treatments in their bird transformations. So book or movie? How do you rate the film versions of these books? Let us know in the comments?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Official Script Book, by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
Series titles are coming out on top this month! Adventure with Percy Jackson and his mythical crew, Geronimo Stilton and Andy and Terry with their tree house building skills!
The code cracking Conspiracy 365 has some cool ways to distract you from your homework! Have you come up with any tricky codes that you’re willing to share? -Not a trick question- Let us know in the comments =)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, by Jeff Kinney
Conspiracy 365, by Gabrielle Lord
Lego has always been a favourite in the Children’s non-fiction collection, but have you ever considered using your own lego collection to make history? Not only is the 2017 Guinness World records in the Top 10 but, they are also accepting bids for the largest Lego pyramid ever… with teams of unlimited size! So round up your mates, and their mates and their… so on and so on and who knows, Guiness World record 2018 could contain your name!
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by Jack Thorne, John Tiffany and J. K. Rowling
Small scenes from a big galaxy, by Vesa Lehtimäki
Travelling with your library this summer? Our eBooks collection has such a great selection. Reading online or downloading a title is a great way to make sure you get all the books in a series.
Did you know that you can ask the library to add more books to the eBook collect? So if there’s something you really want to read online ask us to add it to the collection, and we’ll see what we can do. Either way someone will get back to you and let you know 🙂
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling
The Hobbit, by J R.R. Tolkein
Big Nate Makes a Splash, by Lincoln Peirce
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J. K. Rowling
So good to have a movie to watch while we deal with Wellington’s crazy summer weather! 
Sometimes playing in the rain can be lots of fun if you have on your Wellies and a dry towel for afterwards. We
have some great books for those of you that enjoy jumping in puddles 🙂 but back to the movies…
Kubo and the two strings is looking awesome! This movie has stop motion sorcery, tiny puppets moved little bit by little bit to create movie magic. This tale of a young Samurai adventurer facing 
mythic odds will keep you on the edge of your seats! Have you tried making a flip book or using stop motion to create a bit of film? Let us know in the comments 🙂
Fireman Sam.
Plants vs Zombies has hit the Top 10! If you like the comic do you like the game? Get the background on how the suburbs became the battleground for warring zombies and mutant plant life.
Have you discovered a new comic series in the holidays? Let us know your favourites in the comments =)
Big Nate, by Lincoln Peirce
Amulet, by Kazu Kibuishi
Ocean dwelling creatures and literature make the grade this month. The clever people at Te Papa can take you on a virtual journey to the deepest depths, the Abyssopelagic zone, this is even deeper than where they believe the colossal squid had it’s hunting grounds.
Anyone braved the sea out there this summer? Let us know in the comments if you found any cool sea creatures in your ocean exploring =)
Minecraft annual 2017, by Stephanie Milton
Small scenes from a big galaxy, by Vesa Lehtimäki
So it’s the holidays – who’s bored? and who is reading? Want to bring some of those tales into real life? Want something delicious to eat but it will totally disgust your younger/older, brother/sister/friend/cousin/relative staying over for the holidays? Well Roald Dahl (who I just learned to pronounce correctly, “Roo-aal”) invented snozzcumbers for his non-human eating giant, you may remember these from the movie! An edible version for humans can be found in Roald Dahl’s revolting recipes, page 12 =)
And what’s been really popular over the holidays…?
Magnus Chase series, by Rick Riordan
Its summer holidays! But we all know Wellington is tricksy when it comes to beaching weather, so having a couple of DVDs up your sleeve for a wet day is a good plan.
Movies and TV programmes with your favourite characters are a great way to fill in a few hours and inspire imaginative play. Do you have dress ups as your favourite characters?
1. Octonauts
2. Fireman Sam
4. My Little Pony, friendship is magic
5. Peter Rabbit
7. Zootopia
8. Chuggington
9. Inside Out
