Greetings adventurers of great renown. The 2022-2023 Summer Reading Adventure has now finished! As your local librarians, we have been absolutely delighted to see all your achievements and creativity on display! Congratulations to all tamariki & whānau who took part.
Here are some of the numbers:
- You read 20221 books over December and January — that’s 326 books a day, or a book every 4 and a half minutes!
- You wrote, drew, or filmed 6447 book reviews. Many of you loved using emojis to tell us about the books you read!
- You completed 3505 quests, from exploring and mapping the land to building forts, conducting science experiments to creating beautiful and original works of art.
- You’ve collected 1259 prizes, including badges, books, pens, pencils and notebooks, vouchers from our wonderful friends at Ben & Jerry’s and Unity Books, and other goodies!
So many of you have picked up prizes already. From today, you can still come in to pick up prizes, but only while stocks last as we’re starting to run out of books and other goodies! Check out a small selection of some of our favourite examples of the awesome activities you did!
Protector of the Cake
Inspired by Ruth Paul’s wonderful picture book, Lion Guards The Cake we asked young people to design their dream cake, or bake it with the help of an adult!
Theo designed and baked this incredible dream cake!
Deon’s basketball championship dream cake!
Reuben’s three-dimensional treat!
A Moveable Castle
Inspired by the classic kids’ novel, Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynne Jones, we challenged young people to construct a blanket fort & have a whānau picnic!
SuperJesse peaks out of a massive fort!
Savannah’s cosy fort!
Bree’s whānau fort!
Every Leaf a Masterpiece
Drawing on the name of Ben Okri’s kids’ book, Every Leaf a Hallelujah, we asked kids to head outside and collect some leaves, flowers, or petals from the ground and use them to make collages and artworks!
Maeve’s beautiful design!
Gabriel’s pleasingly composed botanical piece!
Josh’s leafy triptych
That’s us for now, we’re already looking forward to the next reading adventure!
