Posts tagged Books
July 6, 2011 · Filed under Books, Children, Fun, Movies, Winter · Tagged activities, Books, DVDs, LibraryZac, school holidays, Winter
Winter is one of my favourite seasons. It’s cold, wet and windy outside while it’s warm and snuggly inside. It’s the perfect weather for curling up with a good book (or piles of books if you’re like me) and forgetting how wild it is outside. You can hide under a pile of blankets and escape to another world and make some new friends . Another perfect activity for a wintery weekend or a wet holiday is getting comfy on the couch and watching a DVD. I like all sorts of movies from Shrek to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Transformers and we have heaps of great DVDs that you can borrow from the library.
What is your favourite Winter activity? Is it something you can do inside or outside?
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November 15, 2010 · Filed under Adventure, Books, Young Adults · Tagged Black Out, Books, futuristic, Sam Mills, young adult
I finished reading Black Out and it was amazing because it kept me on the edge of my seat in suspense.
Sam Mills is an amazing writer and I can’t wait to read more of his books, absolutely fabulous.
In Black Out London all books have been re-written and re-published so no bad ideas are inspired. Books put bad ideas into your head, we have made them safer and better for our well-being, says the government in this book.
Life is tough without good books to read and one boy is suffering. Stefan’s father helps a ‘terrorist writer’ and is found out after dark. Stefan is moved away while his father is imprisoned and is adopted by foster parents. Stefan’s foster-sister just happens to be the cutest girl in his class! They are playing scrabble when something weird happens. What is it and why does it happen? Read Black Out and find out!
What would the world be like if all books were all happy ending and made so that there were no bad words? What would we do?
It may have had a bit of mild bad language but was still good.
10 out of 10 in my opinion, rate it yourself and please tell me what you think of it.
This is a great book and I recommend it to ages 11+.
Happy reading everyone.
Rhys
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October 31, 2010 · Filed under Books, Children, Christchurch · Tagged best books of 2010, Books, competitions, vote and win
What are your favourite books you’ve read this year?
We’re putting together a list of the best books of 2010 and we need your help. We’ve picked the Top 5 Books for Older Readers and the Top 5 Books for Young Adults and we want you to vote for your favourite book in each group.
All you have to do is choose your favourite book and go to our Kids website (for Older Fiction) or Pulse (for Young Adult) to send your vote (see the website for Terms and Conditions).
Two lucky voters will win a selection of the Top 5 books, so get voting!
This competition has now finished.
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October 11, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Children, Christchurch, New Zealand, Star Author, writers · Tagged Bill Nagelkerke, Books, short stories, Star Author, Star Author October 2010, writing
This week I thought I’d share a new short story with you. Let me what you think of it.
It’s called Starting from scratch. I’ll post it in four parts, starting tomorrow.
Here’s the reason I wrote it.
One of the things I’m interested in is how stories survive. For example, how come so many of the stories, poems and play written by the Ancient Greeks are still around today, more than two thousand years after they were first written down? One reason is that in the days before printed books – and well before the days of the internet – scribes in places such as medieval monasteries copied and re-copied old stories. And I don’t meant photocopied. They copied them by hand, word by word. It must have been incredibly hard work but it meant that stories stayed alive for future generations.
How come some stories survived while others didn’t? Were they the best-written ones? Or the most popular?
I haven’t set my story in the past even though it’s about the survival of stories. I’ve set it in the future. Dark days. Cold days. No internet. No libraries. No books – except for the ones that are being copied in a place called the Monkery. In some ways it’s quite a serious story, but not entirely. . .
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October 2, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Children, Fun, New Zealand · Tagged Books, LibraryZac, reading, school holidays
A fantastic book that I've been reading
The school holidays are the perfect time to lay around and read. The warm, sunny weather we’ve had lately means that you can even go and sit out in the sun or under a tree and read.
What books are you reading in the holidays? Are they really good stories with lots of interesting characters? Is it a book by one of your favourite authors? Is it a non-fiction book or a graphic novel? Add a comment and tell us all about the books you’re reading.
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October 1, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Christchurch, History, New Zealand, Star Author, Television, writers · Tagged Bill Nagelkerke, Books, Star Author, Star Author October 2010
Hi everyone,
It’s great to have the chance to join you on the Christchurch City Libraries Kids’ Blog. I used to work at the library so that makes it doubly nice to be back, even though it’s in a ‘virtual’ sort of way.
I’ve been writing stories for a long time now. I sometimes get asked why I write stories. One of the answers is that I’ve always loved reading and to be a writer I think you need to be a reader, too.
I borrowed books from the library and bought my own books, too. I seemed to have kept a lot of them. Here are some of the books (and one comic) I enjoyed reading when I was younger.
I’d be interested to know what books you’ve been buying and borrowing recently. A recent book I borrowed from the library, and then had to go and buy a copy of for myself, was Philip Reeve’s A web of air. This is the second volume in the prequel to his Mortal Engines series. Fabulously inventive!
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September 19, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Children, Star Author, writers · Tagged Books, Brian Falkner, ebooks, electronic books, Star Author, Star Author September 2010
E-Books will never take off, I thought. Until I bought an iPhone.
I love books. I love the feel of them, the smell of them. I love to curl up in bed on a cold dark night with a book. There’s no way, I thought, that I would ever want to read books on a glowing electronic screen. It just wouldn’t feel right. It wouldn’t have the same atmosphere. You can watch a sports game on the TV, but nothing beats being at the stadium.
And I definitely wouldn’t want to read an e-Book on an iPhone. Why would anyone want to read a novel on a screen the size of a playing card.
Then I bought an iPhone, and my world changed.
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September 11, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Children, Star Author, writers, Young Adults · Tagged Books, Brian Falkner, Most Boring Book in the World, Star Author, Star Author September 2010, The Project
The first copy of The Project (previously titled “The Most Boring Book in the World”) arrived yesterday. It looks great. Fantastic work by everybody at Walker Books Australia. It goes on sale next month.
Cheers
Brian
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September 10, 2010 · Filed under Books, Children, Christchurch, New Zealand · Tagged Books, Christchurch, New Zealand
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September 6, 2010 · Filed under Authors, Books, Children, Christchurch, Star Author, writers · Tagged Books, Brian Falkner, Star Author, Star Author September 2010, The Project, writing
Brian Falkner
Hi everyone!
Today I thought I’d tell you a little bit about The Project, my new book, which comes out in just a few weeks time.
I was living in Iowa City, USA in 2008 as part of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. A few months earlier there had been some devastating floods in Iowa City, and the cleanup was still on while I was there.
I had in the back of my mind an idea for a book that I wanted to write one day, called “The Most Boring Book in the World”. I thought that was a great title for a book. The book would be about a long lost, and very rare, book, that contained a terrible secret. But this long lost book was so boring that no-one would ever read it.
In Iowa I learned that the University Library had been in danger of flooding, and teams of volunteers had gone in and emptied the lower shelves in the basement of the library, where all their old, rare books were kept.
That’s how I got the idea. What if that long lost, boring book turned up when they were moving all the books from the basement!
And the rest of the story took off from there.
Walker Books are publishing “The Project” very soon. Look out for it.
Here’s the front cover:
cheers
Brian
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June 16, 2010 · Filed under Books, Children, Fantasy · Tagged Books, Christopher Paolini, Eragon, Fantasy
This book is written by Christopher Paolini
I love this book because it is full of magic, so if you like harry potter then you might like this book.
My favourite character is Saphira because she is a dragon and I love dragons!
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April 21, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged action, Adventure, Books, Hunger Games, James Dashner, Maze Runner, Mystery, young adult, Zac
There is really only one word needed to describe James Dashner’s The Maze Runner - Wow! Imagine that you wake up in a strange place knowing nothing but your name. Your memory has been wiped and you have no idea what happened to you before you woke up in the pitch black of an elevator that opens to reveal a walled-off area and a bunch of boys staring at you. The leader of the group tells you that you are in the middle of a maze, in a place called The Glade where these boys all live, carving out an existence. Nobody knows why the maze is there or why they are all trapped inside with no way out that they have discovered in the past two years. As well as trying to solve the maze they must survive the attacks of sinister blob-type creatures called Grievers. The story follows Thomas and the other ‘Gladers’ who strive against the odds to escape the maze alive.
The story is heart-stopping and the plot races along. It’s one of those books that you just don’t want to end and I was excited to discover that The Maze Runner is the first book in a trilogy. Now I just have to wait patiently for James Dashner to write the sequel, Scorch Trials that comes out later this year. If you loved Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games you’re sure to love The Maze Runner.
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