Organise your home library

Do you own books at home? How do you keep them organised?

One thing you can do is name your books, and you can do this by using book plates. Book plates are a label that you stick inside the front cover of the book to tell people who it belongs to. There is a really cool website that has HEAPS of book plates that you can print off and stick in your books. Check out My Home Library – you’ll find small, medium and large book plates, and lots of them in colour. The coolest bit is that many of them have been designed by favourite and well-known illustrators (like Quentin Blake!).

Here are some of my favs:

There are even bookmarks you can print off. Have fun, but remember – don’t put book plates in our library books, only the ones you own at home.

Kids Catalogue Web: Explore Some Birds & Animals!

Hi guys!

 

Do you often need info about New Zealand animals for your school homework sheets & projects? Then Kids Catalog Web can help! Navigate to the Explore section and choose NZ Aotearoa / NZ Animals. To see all the fantastic web pages on your chosen topic, click on the button of the animal you want. As this is a book catalog, it will usually come up with a list of books on that topic first. Just look for an icon with a spider sitting on a web (it’s on the left hand side of page and has the words see web pages) and click on that for the URLs.

 

Here’s some examples of the kinds of websites that you will find there…
Animal fact sheets:
New Zealand zoos have fact sheets on the animals that live there. Here’s the Hamilton Zoo site: Just click on Birds, Reptiles or Mammals and choose the fact sheet for the animal you want.

 

Animal Pests:
Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand is getting more and more stuff added all the time. In “The Bush” section you can check out all our native animals & insects plus their predators. But this section in Conservation is all about the Introduced Animal Pests which threaten our native wildlife.

 
Penguins:
There’s loads of info about our unique and endangered animals too like the Little Blue Penguin. The Oamaru Penguin Colony website has some great facts plus their life cycle.

 
Sharks: If you don’t mind the sight of blood – check out this site from the Auckland Museum about dissecting a Great White Shark.

Kids Cat – Easter

It’s only 6 weeks until Easter! Every year we get kids at the library asking us what is the meaning of Easter and where they can find out how to do Easter crafts. Luckily our Kids Catalog Web has loads of great books and websites on Easter. Check out the Easter icon on the Holidays & Festivals pages. Books in the catalog will be listed first (so you can check out what great books are at the library nearest you). But if you need info fast, just click on the spider icon to see the websites.

Kids’ Catalogue: there’s lots of stuff about Christmas in here!

Kids' CatIf you’re looking for Christmas ideas and books with facts and stories then the Kids’ Catalogue is the place for you!

 

Kids’ Cat has got heaps of popular topics, from Animals to Weird & Scary Stuff, Transport to Arts, Music & Dance (just select the “Explore” button). And in the Holidays and Festivals section you’ll find… Christmas! Stories, crafts, recipes, carols, gifts, information about Santa Claus and Jesus… all the info you’ll need and much more! Check it out.