Thursday, June 7, 2018

What's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story?

An interesting article which highlights the importance of reading picture books to young children. The study the article is based on looks at what happens to children's brains when they are read to, compared to listening to an audio book or watching an animated cartoon. 

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The NZ Kids' Book Awards finalists are.....

Exciting announced - here are the 2017/18 finalist of the NZ Kids' Book Awards
Luckily we have most of these books already in the library, the others will be winging their way to the shelves soon.

Felt board fun

We had lots of fun the the library with this felt board to go along with the Eric Carle book The Mixed- Up Chameleon. The book is amazing to...