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Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga: July School Holiday Programme
- Wellington City Libraries
- Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga! July School Holidays: 6- 21 July 2023 Kia ora koutou young adventurers and star gazers! Get ready to dive into the magic of Matariki and Puanga at your local library over the holidays. Discover the… Continue reading →
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Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga: July School Holiday Programme
- Wellington City Libraries
- Mānawatia a Matariki me Puanga! July School Holidays: 6- 21 July 2023 Kia ora koutou young adventurers and star gazers! Get ready to dive into the magic of Matariki and Puanga at your local library over the holidays. Discover the… Continue reading →
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Out on the Shelves: Rainbow Families
- Wellington City Libraries
- To continue our celebration of Out on the Shelves this month, we’re highlighting some of the books in our Children’s Picture Book Collection that feature rainbow families. The books we’ve put together here feature families of all shapes and sizes.… Continue reading →
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New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024: Children’s Finalists!
- Wellington City Libraries
- It’s been another wonderful year for children’s books in Aotearoa New Zealand — so why not check out the shortlist for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, officially announced last week. This is always a super… Continue reading →
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Out on the Shelves 2024: What’s on at your library
- Wellington City Libraries
- It’s that time of year again! The annual Out On The Shelves campaign runs this year for the entire month of June. Out on the Shelves is an online resource that connects rainbow young people with the stories that represent… Continue reading →
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From School to the Moon: New Kids Books in the Collection
- Wellington City Libraries
- What a fabulous selection of new books we have in the collection this month! There are so many that we can’t share them all here, but you can get a glimpse of what’s on offer from our selection below. Are… Continue reading →
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Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa | Sāmoa Language Week 2024
- Wellington City Libraries
- Tālofa Lava! Welcome to Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa, Sāmoan Language Week 2024! What is Sāmoa Language Week? Sāmoan Language Week | Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa is celebrated this year from 26th May – 1st June 2024. This is a chance… Continue reading →
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Adventures Through Time!
- Wellington City Libraries
- The basis for so many wonderful gems in our collection of children’s fiction lies in the question of what it would be like to travel back into the past. In these books, we also meet characters who encounter children from… Continue reading →
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Aotearoa Spanish Language Week 2024
- Wellington City Libraries
- Kia ora and ¡Hola! Here at Wellington City Libraries we are celebrating Aotearoa Spanish Language Week. Hablas espanol? Do you speak Spanish? Hablo un poco de Español (Eh-span-yole). I speak a little Spanish ¿Dónde estás? Where are you? Estoy en le… Continue reading →
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Gasav Ne Fäeag Rotuạm Ta: Rotuman Language Week 2024
- Wellington City Libraries
- Noaʻia ʻe mḁuri gagaj ʻatakoa! Welcome to Gasav Ne Fäeag Rotuạm Ta | Rotuman Language Week 2024 Download a Rotuman Language Week Poster! What is Rotuman Language Week? Rotuman Language Week is the first in a series of Pasifika Language… Continue reading →
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Let’s sign together! New Zealand Sign Language Week 2024
- Wellington City Libraries
- Did you know that every May is a special time in New Zealand? It’s when we celebrate New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week, a fantastic opportunity to honour and recognise the importance of NZSL as one of our country’s official… Continue reading →
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Te Ara Pukapuka Children’s Walk at Central Park
- Wellington City Libraries
- Te Ara Pukapuka has now landed at Central Park, Brooklyn, with a brand new pukapuka carefully selected for this location! We previously let you know that Central Park was the location for the next installation of Te Ara Pukapuka, but… Continue reading →
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Tūhono 2024: A librarian’s guide to crafting your poem
- Wellington City Libraries
- If you haven’t heard already, it’s only a few days until May 12th when Tūhono submissions close, and we still want your poems! Tūhono is Wellington City Libraries’ annual poetry journal for kids and teens. You can find more info… Continue reading →
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Te Ara Pukapuka is coming to Central Park!
- Wellington City Libraries
- So far Te Ara Pukapuka has travelled around the city from Churchill Park in Seatoun, to Khandallah Park, to Kilbirnie Park, to Waihinahina Park in Newlands, to Karori Park, to the latest installment which will be arriving at Central Park… Continue reading →
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WHODUNNIT? At Wellington City SPYbraries – School Holidays Wrap-Up
- Wellington City Libraries
- The school holidays have come to end, term two is upon us, and we hope you had as much fun as we did over the holidays solving mysteries, decoding clues, crafting investigator kits, and generally getting involved in all things… Continue reading →
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Fluff, Food, Feelings and Fun Projects: New Kids Books in the Collection
- Wellington City Libraries
- We’ve got lots of gorgeous new books in the collection for kids this month, so many we can’t share them all here! But we’ve selected a handful we think you might like. Read about a really fluffy buffalo and a… Continue reading →
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Explore and Discover with the City Nature Challenge!
- Wellington City Libraries
- 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 Wellington? Why not finish off the… Continue reading →
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The Fish Doorbell – Help a Fish on the Other Side of the World!
- Wellington City Libraries
- 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 through the city,… Continue reading →
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Draw Along with Paul Beavis at Karori Library!
- Wellington City Libraries
- During the April school holidays, we are lucky to be hosting superstar author and illustrator Paul Beavis (Nee Naw, There Was an Odd Farmer Who Swallowed a Fly, Ring Ting Tūī) for a fantastic workshop at Te Māhanga Karori Library.… Continue reading →
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Tūhono 2024 Submissions Are Now Open!
- Wellington City Libraries
- The 1st of April has finally arrived, and so we have officially opened submissions for Tūhono 2024, our annual poetry journal for children and teens! This year’s theme is “Tūmanako | Hope” — check out our last blog post for… Continue reading →
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School Holidays: WHODUNNIT? at Wellington City SPYbraries
- Wellington City Libraries
- The School Holidays are getting closer! And we’re excited to announce our theme and programme for the April school holidays this year. From the 13th to the 28th of April, we invite you to join us for WHODUNNIT? at Wellington City… Continue reading →
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Empowering Brave Voices with author Avril McDonald
- Wellington City Libraries
- Over the April school holidays, Wellington City Libraries will be welcoming author Avril McDonald into our libraries for several storytimes as she celebrates the launch of her latest book The Wolf and the Hocus Pocus and the Empowering Brave Voices… Continue reading →
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Go On An Exploration – New Kids Books in the Collection
- Wellington City Libraries
- This month’s new books for kids are all about exploration! Exploration of space, place, story, and feelings, whatever realm you’re interested in finding more about, we have gorgeous new books to help and entertain you. Take a look at this… Continue reading →
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Ramadan Mubarak!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim whānau Kia ora kids! We know some of you might like to know more about Ramadan.. or some of you might not even know what Ramadan is. Luckily you are in the right place. Libraries… Continue reading →
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Announcing our Summer Reading Adventure Prize-Winners!
- Wellington City Libraries
- The winners themselves have known for a couple of weeks, but the day has finally come — it’s time for us to publicly announce the Grand Prize winners of the 2023-24 Summer Reading Adventure! Of course, everyone who took part… Continue reading →
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Books are Magic: Books about Books
- Wellington City Libraries
- Surprise! We librarians REALLY love books (almost more than cats) and so when we come across a book about books?! Well, we do a little happy dance. Here are a few good ones we’ve added to the collection recently: Once… Continue reading →
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Kaupapa Moana – Seaweek 2024
- Wellington City Libraries
- Seaweek 2024 has just started! Seaweek is New Zealand’s national week for celebrating the sea, and this year it runs from the 2nd to the 10th of March. Here in Aotearoa we are surrounded by the sea, so it’s no… Continue reading →
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Tūhono 2024: We Want Your Poems!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Tūhono, Wellington City Libraries’ poetry journal for children and teens, will soon be opening for submissions! From 1 April – 12 May, we will be accepting submissions of poetry from young writers aged 5 – 18 in Wellington City. In… Continue reading →
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Miracle Seeds, Unicorns and Greedy Peas – New Kids Books in the Collection
- Wellington City Libraries
- There is so much to read, learn and enjoy in the latest bunch of books added to our collection. You can find out why seals are jerks, or what happens when a greedy pea eats all the food. Read about… Continue reading →
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Read to Kurī Starting Up Again at Kilbirnie Library!
- Wellington City Libraries
- Good news for dog-lovers and book-lovers alike — we’re bringing back our popular Read to Kurī programme at Ruth Gotlieb (Kilbirnie) Library throughout Term 1 this year! Every Thursday after school from the 15th of February on, you’ll be able to… Continue reading →
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