This is the first of our weekly Summertime Reading Club challenges. Each week we’ll set you a challenge and you have to comment on the challenge post to go in the draw for the weekly prize, a $50 PaperPlus voucher and a Hoyts movie pass. We’ll draw the winner on Thursday and announce the winner on Friday when the next challenge is posted.
Week 1 Challenge
Using either the library catalogue or the Kids Christmas page on the library website, find a Christmas book that we have in the library. Once you’ve found it, tell us here on the blog by leaving a comment on this post (along with your name and email address).
For a bonus entry – say ‘Merry Christmas’ to us in another language.
This week’s winner is Ben.
See below for terms and conditions
- To enter this competition you must be between 8 and 13 years old and live in Canterbury. We may ask for proof of your address and your age.
- If you are a winner, you consent to your name, photograph, entry and/or interview being used for reasonable publicity purposes by Christchurch City Libraries.
- Staff of Christchurch City Libraries and their immediate families are not able to enter.
- The competition ends on Thursday 27 December at 6pm.
- We will notify the winners by telephone and/or email on Friday 28 December 2012.
- The Christchurch Kids Blog judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Prizes are as stated and are not transferable.


Tierney said,
December 21, 2012 @ 9:50 am
Hi,
I found a Christmas book on the catalogue! I don’t know if I’m meant to say the title or not, so I will just in case I do have to: it’s Horrid Henry’s Christmas by Francesca Simon. My 9 year old sister loves these books!
At Tuam library I listened to some Maori Christmas carollers, I’m quite sure that Merry Christmas in Maori is:
Meri Kirihimete.
Thanks!
Tierney said,
December 22, 2012 @ 9:09 am
No, no, I mean “Meri Krihimete,” not “Meri Kirihemete!”
josiahmorgan11 said,
December 21, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
A Christmas Carol
Feliz Navidad,
Josiah Morgan
Ella said,
December 21, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
Merry Christmas in German, is: Frohe Weihnachten
The Christmas book I found in the catalogue and is one of my favourite Christmas books is: A Small Miracle by Peter Collington.
Thanks!
Ella said,
December 21, 2012 @ 4:51 pm
Hey, Zac, am I to old for this? I’m 13.
Bailey said,
December 22, 2012 @ 9:15 am
My Christmas book is “One Starry Night” by Lauren Thompson.
Joyeux Noel! That’s French for Merry Christmas!
Ella said,
December 22, 2012 @ 4:46 pm
You can also spell and say Merry Christmas in German as “Froehliche Weihnachten!” There are lots of ways to say it!
Robin McGregor said,
December 23, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
Merry Christmas in Chinese is 聖誕節快樂! I read a Christmas book the two Christmas Mice by Corinne Demas. The story is good!
Ben said,
December 27, 2012 @ 9:51 am
My Christmas book is, “Baboushka”
Mele Kelikimaka! That’s Merry Christmas in Hawaiian!