Are you looking for something to do after school?
Then come along to Johnsonville Library on Friday 8th February between 3.30pm – 4.30pm and have some fun by creating and completing Lego challenges.
Let’s build – Let’s explore – Let’s create… Let’s Go Lego!!
With another new year comes another set of LEGO adventures for Wellington library-goers! We’re making some changes to the Let’s Go LEGO schedule this year, so check the days and times below to see when it’s on at your local library!
Khandallah Library: 1st Friday of the month, 3:30-4:30pm
Cummings Park (Ngaio) Library: 2nd Thursday of the month, 3:30-4:30pm
Mervyn Kemp (Tawa) Library: 2nd Thursday of the month, 3:30-4:30pm
Johnsonville Library: 2nd Friday of the month, 3:30-4:30pm
Karori Library: 3rd Saturday of the month, 2:00-3:00pm
Let’s Go LEGO is a free, interactive LEGO-based programme for children aged 5+. In Let’s Go LEGO, your creative skills will be put to the test as you use the library’s LEGO collections to design and build your masterpieces. Each session will have a different theme that will inspire you to hone your skills and become your library’s very own LEGO legend.
For more information, contact your local branch library.
Come along to our free movie night on Friday 1st February at 5.30pm at Johnsonville Library.
This month follow in the adventures and fun of a young musician named Miguel, on a journey to the magical land of his ancestors. With the help of an unusual friend he uncovers the mysteries behind his family’s stories and traditions.
This film is rated PG.
Can’t guess what film we’re talking about? You can call the library or talk to a librarian to find out what is playing each month.
Bring your own cushion for a comfy night in. Movies will play in the Children’s section of the library.
Are you looking for something to do during the holidays. Then come along and have some fun by creating and completing Lego challenges.
Tawa Library have their event on Thursday 10th January from 2pm.
Johnsonville Library have their event on Friday 11th January from 2pm
Let’s build – Let’s explore – Let’s create… Let’s Go Lego!!
Are you looking for something to do after school? Then come along and have some fun by creating and completing Lego challenges.
Tawa Library have their event on Thursday 13th December at 3.30pm – 4.30pm.
Johnsonville Library have their event on Friday 14th December at 3.30pm – 4.30pm.
Let’s build – Let’s explore – Let’s create… Let’s Go Lego!!
Deck the Halls with Books of Jolly! Fa la la la la….
Christmas Storytimes are back!
Dust of your jingle bells, catch a sleigh ride, and follow the reindeer footprints into your local library for fun family storytimes to get your into the festival Christmas spirit.
These storytimes will be filled with stories and songs for the Christmas season, and are suitable for families with children of all ages. Come along in a Christmas costume, or your coziest pyjamas!
All storytimes start at 6pm and run for 45mins.
When and Where:
Monday 17th December
Brooklyn, Cummings Park (Ngaio), and Miramar Library,
Tuesday 18th December
Central Library, Children’s section
Thursday 20th December
Wadestown, Karori, Khandallah, Mervyn kemp (Tawa) and Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie) Libraries, and Island Bay Community Centre
Friday 21st December
Newtown and Johnsonville Libraries
These are free events, and bookings aren’t required.
Join us for a Games Night at Johnsonville Library this Friday 23rd November at 5pm.
We have a range of board games to choose from including popular classics like Settler of Catan, Risk or Trivial Pursuit and less common games like Starfluxx, Munchkin or King of Tokyo.
Most games are for ages 8+ though we have a few games for younger children too. You could also bring a game of your own to play with new people.
Games Night starts at 5pm but you are welcome to arrive late, you might just need to wait a little before you can join in the next round.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there
Come along to our free movie night on Thursday 15th November at 6pm.
Experience an extravaganza of sight and sound in this colourful animated movie.
Watch whales soar through the air, the Earth spring into being, and a familiar mouse lose control of his magic.
See music come to life, hear pictures burst into song to a full orchestral score – share the excitement that is this FANTAStic film.
This film is rated G
Not sure what film we’re talking about? You can call the library or talk to a librarian to find out what is playing each month.
Bring your own cushion for a comfy night in. Movies will play in the Children’s section of the library
The popular LitCrawl has teamed up with Annual 2 and Wellington Central Library for the first ever KidsCrawl! Come along and hunt down a story using the KidsCrawl map. There’s famous people to meet, and a story to uncover and piece together…
KidsCrawl will feature authors and illustrators Bill Manhire, David Larsen, Giselle Clarkson, Michael Petherington, Susan Paris, Kate De Goldi, Gavin Mouldy, Kate Camp and Elizabeth Patrick.
Where and When:
10th November, 10am – 11am
Wellington Central Library, meet in the YA area by the help desk
Email kidscrawl@litcrawl.co.nz to register for the event (ask your parents first!).
Before you storyhunters turn up for the KidsCrawl, here’s a guide to what you could read to get ready:
Annual and Annual 2, edited by Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris
Fiction, comics, poems, essays, art, satire, and things to do! This is a book for intrepid readers to dip into, pore over, return to again and again. Annual features a dictionary of crazy words that come in handy on car trips, a sophisticated “spot the similarity”, a found poem from school newsletters, a maths-nerd’s memoir full of tricky logic puzzles, comics that embrace other worlds, a very unlucky zebra, and top-class fiction that spans Christchurch Botanic Gardens in the 19th century, the loss of a brother, a Kiwi beach holiday, and a Fontanian boarding school.
The Curioseum : collected stories of the odd & marvellous, edited by Adrienne Jansen ; illustrated by Sarah Laing
What happens when you take 22 of New Zealand’s best children’s story writers and let them loose ‘backstage’ at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa? Authors from around the country were invited to choose one of the museum’s taonga (treasures) as a starting point for an imaginative journey. The result is a truly original compendium of stories and poems for children with spirited, original illustrations from the award-winning Sarah Laing.
Secret world of butterflies, by Courtney Sina Meredith, Giselle Clarkson
Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet, do a dark red poo when they come out of their chrysalises and that some drink the tears of crocodiles? How does the world look to them, do they ever sleep and how are some of them able to fly so high? This book will open your eyes to these magical creatures around us.
But wait! There’s more! The fun doesn’t start and finish with the KidsCrawl. You could take home your own copy of Annual 2! Enter for your chance to win.
Join us for a Games Night at Johnsonville Library this Friday 26th October at 5pm.
We have a range of board games to choose from including popular classics like Settler of Catan, Risk or Trivial Pursuit and less common games like Starfluxx, Munchkin or King of Tokyo.
Most games are for ages 8+ though we have a few games for younger children too. You could also bring a game of your own to play with new people.
Games Night starts at 5pm but you are welcome to arrive late, you might just need to wait a little before you can join in the next round.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there