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New eBooks for children
Winter weather has you stuck inside? Can’t get to the library? Here’s the newest eBook fiction added to our collection: 1. 11 Birthdays: Willow Falls Series, Book 1 by Wendy Mass (also an eAudiobook)...
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Have you voted for the ‘Bird of the Year’ yet?
Each year Forest and Bird gives the nation the chance to vote for their favourite New Zealand Bird. The winning bird becomes the ‘Bird of the Year’ The 5 previous winners have been the Fairy Tern (Tara...
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Top 10 Children’s eBooks February 2017
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...
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Top 10 Children’s Non-Fiction March 2017
Great books to get your brains tingling! If you’re building a Minecraft empire or brushing up your acting skills with the Harry Potter script the top issuing non-fiction books have something you’ll...
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Live online homework help with AnyQuestions
Need help with those tricky school subjects? Not sure where to start on your project? Have a topic that you want to know more about? Just need a good website? Then you need to go to AnyQuestions.co.nz...
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Want to know more about the latest news and important issues? Tune in to watch KEA Kids News, which will help explain the tough stuff. KEA Kids News is a twice-weekly video bulletin of new by kids for...
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Real Time, Real Person, Real Help with your Schoolwork
Note: this Kids’ Blog post is targeted at adults! Kids read on with caution. In these strange new times, teachers, parents and other educators are looking to the Internet for homework help and...
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Family Lockdown Challenge: Coding Capers!
It’s nearly the end of another week of lockdown, so it’s time for another Family Lockdown Challenge! So far we’ve explored everything from Lego to scavenger hunts, movies to Music Month — but so far we...
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Get your poetry game-face on!
Image: Upsplash free images & pictures Do you know why August 2021 is special? No, not because we’ve gone into another lockdown At the end of this month, it’s Phantom National Poetry Day! (Friday...
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Awesome New Reads (and Listens) on OverDrive!
Awesome news for all you audiobook listeners out there — the lovely librarians who buy books for the eLibrary have added a whole new collection of 100 amazing audiobooks that are always available for...
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Kids’ Activities Under Red Settings
To keep our young people and vulnerable communities safe under Red settings, we’re moving most of our programmes for children under the age of 12 and their families online! This is because even though...
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Too Precious to Lose: Celebrating our Forests
Kahikitea Forest, West Coast NZ. Image: Sue Jane Tuesday 21 March marks International Day of Forests. The 2022 theme is “Too Precious to Lose” which I think we can all agree is a very good theme! We...
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Bird Watchers, Get Counting: It’s Bird Survey Time!
Manaaki Whenua | Landcare Research is running its annual Garden Bird Survey again this year from 24 June – 2 July. To participate you need to spend 60 minutes in your garden, local park or reserve...
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The Fish Doorbell – Help a Fish on the Other Side of the World!
What is the Fish Doorbell? The Fish Doorbell (or visdeurbel in Dutch) is exactly what it sounds like – a doorbell for fish! The Vecht, a branch of the river Rhine, flows through Utrecht. As it goes...
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Explore and Discover with the City Nature Challenge!
Are you fascinated by the small scuttling things you see in rockpools, the native insects hiding in your garden, or the different bushes, weeds, and trees you see while out for a walk around...
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