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Sort your Christmas shopping with this curiously good offer!

After the picks for Babies and Toddlers & the one for Preschoolers, here is a selection of chapter books & novels.

For BookTrust, Emily Drabble asked authors and illustrators including Michael Morpurgo, Cressida Cowell, Patrice Lawrence, Julia Donaldson, Alex T Smith, Nick Sharratt and Jim Kay the impossible question: pick just one out of all the jewels published in 2018. From board books to novels, 50 authors and illustrators picked their favourite kids’ book of the year…… Read more »

Another Porirua summer is upon us, and at Porirua Libraries that means it’s time for A-Long Hot Summer Story Festival, returning for its sensational eighth year to entertain children aged 3-12 and their families over the school holidays. Five weeks of reads aloud, workshops and activities, all designed for children from three to twelve year old!… Read more »

Inside the Villains is in The Guardian Christmas Picks for Children!

We’ll be at the Thorndon Fair on Sunday! The Thorndon Fair is a huge street fair that highlights the charms of historic Thorndon. Over 20,000 people and 250 stallholders gather on the first Sunday of December every year. On Tinakori Rd and Hill St, Thorndon From 10am to 3pm

We’ll be at the Sustainability Trust Christmas market on Saturday 1st of December… A great opportunity to do your Christmas shopping! ??? What you can expect from the Green Christmas Market: A four-part ukelele band that is guaranteed to get you movin’ and shakin’ Coffee from the crew at Good Fortune Coffee. Every cup is 100%… Read more »

Last week we recommended Christmas picks for  Babies and Toddlers, now here is our selection of books for preschoolers!

Here we are… a month before Christmas!
Need recommendations? Let’s start with a selection of books for babies and toddlers…

Stories of thew Night has been chosen by The New York Times ‘Nighttime Picture Books to Put Children to Bed’ List. Congratulations Kitty Crowther!