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Bonjour tout le monde! Hello everyone!

We are super excited to present the new QMC French blog - check it out for regular updates on French language, culture and events! Click here to take a look. Merci!

Holiday fun

looking for something creative to do over the holidays? Check this children and youth literary festival

Lunch time in the library

A young adult and love listening to stories?

Radio NZ is fantastic for news and current events but did you know it also offers audio book?
Here

New novel by John Green...

Author of A fault in our stars and other favourites has written a new novel and it's coming to our library soon. Find out more about the book here

World War 1 resources in the library

Please check our OPAC resources on the First World War or come to the library and ask for assistance.

Activities club

Year 3 girls, Rosie and Clementine are running an activities club at lunchtime on Thursdays, in the library. It's a huge success- everyone is so happy to be playing board games and joining in the fun!.

大(dà)家(jiā)好(hǎo) Hello everyone

Y12 & 13 poetry competition here

Coming to Hobson- making reading more accessible to you!

A timely reminder.....

Chinese culture club

Held in
W11 between 1:00-1:30 (Thursday).

Whakatauki...Words from the wise...

Waiho ma te tangata e mihi, kia tau ai.
(It would be better to let others praise.)

Thinking about your career?

This website can help you decide on a secure and fulfilling career- that also does good. here

Interested in writing poetry?
Check out this inspirational website here

In the library now!!

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

Meet 5 beastly boys and 5 gruesome girls in David Walliams latest book!

If you'd enjoy to read about
some really naughty children and what they get up to- and have a laugh- then this is the book for you!
New to the library this week.

Make a book tube! We will post it here!

You can be inspired by teen booktuber Marta Botet Borràs
In this TED talk she gets really enthusiastic about reading and ways to share the love!
It might even inspire you to have a go at creating your own Booktube posts - make one and we'll post it here. Come to the library and we can discuss...

Sustainable world radio

Listen to podcasts with interviews, news and commentary about ecology here

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
– Thomas A. Edison

Leap writer's-
7 am,
Wed,
Library.

Attention parents!

Would you like to read a book on parenting issues? Please take a look at what we have on offer in our parent library. Go to the top of this page, in the banner and click on 'more' then 'for parents'.
Here you'll find a sample of what we have of offer.

See you in the library!

Our hardworking librarians having a shared lunch

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous..

new magazines @ QMC library!

'Kinfolk is a slow lifestyle magazine that explores ways for readers to simplify their lives, cultivate community and spend more time with their friends and family.

Founded in 2011, Kinfolk is now the leading international lifestyle mag

We are very excited to introduce these magazines to our library.
They run current articles,
features and images that will make you think, inspire you and generally keep you up to the minute with what is happening in our world.

new books!

Looking forward to having this to read and look at. See the book trailer

Poetry competition!!!!!!!

all budding poets find out more here

Favourite books issued @ QMC library

Wanting a story in your
Mother tongue? Here

Children and their families deserve to have access to the books of their culture, as well as the majority culture, regardless of where they live.
The Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.

For students of French

To issue this film, please come to the library.
We have access to the study notes here

lunchtimes in the library

A very nice place to hang out with your friends
or read...

See you in the library!

The tale of Kitty-in-boots by Beatrix Potter-coming to QMC

This story, which will be published in September 2016, is by much loved author Beatrix Potter. It was discovered by a researcher looking through museum archives. So excited that it will be illustrated by Quentin Blake!
You can read more about it here

stuck with 'what to read next'?

Ask our book seer about what books he would recommend for you here

Can we help the refugee crisis?

Lunch time fun- listen here

Mobile library in 1936, North Carolina, USA

Bedtime story is key to literacy, says children's writer Frank Cottrell Boyce here

answer: Bring it back!!!

Making book worms (that's what we're calling them)

Here for instructions on how to make 'book worms'

Pre-school visit the library every Friday

Lear how to say 'Gidday ' in another language
here

Where are you on the political spectrum?

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Where are you on the political spectrum??
Take this test.. Here

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Look here for some good recommendations for your reading

lunch time concert in the library

Want some science over the hols?
here

Library helpers- thanks Frida!

Like comics? start here

Chess club

Matariki celebrations in the library!!

Come along to the library where you can make a star, learn about Matariki and read some stories about this time of the year.Te Papa has some celebrations, too. Find out some more about that here

Year 8 book club

Every Wednesday lunchtime a small group of Year 8's gather in the library for a book club. We read a variety of books and discuss them as well as playing word games and giving reviews.
If you come for 5 meetings you will get a prize
(stationery)
Come to the library (with your lunch) if you are interested in:

books
making friends
laughing
playing

See you next Wednesday

Poetry workshop Year 9 and 10

Louise Mearns, Wellington poet, ran a workshop for students on Tuesday. She talked about her experience in getting her work published, where she gains her inspiration and the writing website http://www.starlingmag.com/ she has created for young writers.

'New Philosopher' magazine

We now have a subscription to this exciting magazine!
It has some fascinating, provocative articles and is a great addition to our magazine library which includes,
NZ Listener, Time, Smith Journal and Kinfolk.

Spelling Bee 2017!

Spelling Bee participants are sitting the first test this week and will shortly anticipate results for the regional competition!

Hell Pizza reading challenge is back!
for Y1-Y8

Pop into the library and grab a pizza wheel.
Whenever you return the book ask the librarian to click and sign your pizza wheel.
Once you have all 7 wedges on your pizza wheel clicked and signed off, you can take it into any Hell Pizza shop and exchange it for a FREE 333 pizza from their Hellthy menu. Wow!
There’s no limit to how many pizza wheels you can complete, so make sure you ask for another from the librarian. We will keep handing them out until we run out.
Good news! You can use your pizza wheel in both your public and school library. So anything you read from your school library can be clicked off your wheel too.

Writers' Group

Calling all writers/book lovers in Y7-10! Come along to the library

7.45am next Thursday, 6 April

next meeting.

We will be writing, playing games and generally having fun.

Bring your creative selves!

Isobel Scherf and Thea Thomas

Fun at the Kids Lit Quiz 2017..

Winter Zine Market

Zine : (noun) a self-published magazine

Do you make your own zines? Wellington Zinefest run monthly zine making workshops at the central library, and are holding a Winter Zine Market in June where writers, poets and comic artists will be selling their zines. Pop into the library and ask Ms Paul for more information! (she helps run Zinefest!)

The Sapling

Old Girl Nina Powels has just had a piece published on new literary website The Sapling!
She writes a powerful piece about about Hermione Granger and mixed racial identity.
"Hermione was the first character I ever met who was deeply, unapologetically herself."
Read the full article here!

Join Wellington City Library
-it's free

To have access to all the fiction & non fiction books and e-books your heart desires
Free!
To access amazing data bases including daily newspapers from around the world-     Free!
To look at a multitude of magazines-      Free!
Listening to audio books- Free!
QMC girls living out of Wellington can join too -      Free!

What is truth?

This is a great blog to read if you're interested in how to be a discerning consumer of news- which is an important skill in the 21st century! Here

Youth Mentorship Programme Seeks Emerging Young Writers

See here for details

Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion holds monthly spoken word evenings featuring local and touring poets! It is an inclusive group which aims to raise the profile of spoken word as a meaningful, fun and entertaining art form and challenge people's notions of what poetry is and can be. If you aspire to be a performance poet or are looking for inspiration check it out here!

Mortal Engines

Very excited about the news that Peter Jackson and Weta are going to be making the movie of the
Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve. If you've not heard of this gripping saga start with the first book Mortal Engines. It's available from our library

The Universe by Mira Karunanidhi

Get the low-down on sugar here

Time to think about scholarships! Here

Reminder- You can only get access to the information on this website when you are logged on through our school or a public library.

Calling all performers, directors and playwrights!
Playmarket is a New Zealand play script publishing house that is dedicated to giving exposure to NZ writers. Their website is a fantastic resource for theatre scripts and information about playwrights and performers! Click here to access the script search function where you can search amongst hundreds of script summaries, and check out the opportunities for script advice, script writing and mentoring.

Listen to an Agatha Christie mystery novel 'After the funeral'

Would you like to have a mystery novel read to you? -maybe while you're sitting on a train or about to drift off to sleep?- that's a good time to listen to a story.
Famous crime fiction
author, Agatha Christie is a master story teller, and you can hear one of her novels After the funeral, for free, here.

Free audio stories!

Do you enjoy listening to stories? Storynory can help you with some myths, fairy tales, and original series!
Check it out here!

Te Papa-on now!

Free entry- check out some great art, level 5 & 6, Te Papa

E-books and audio books

Join Wellington City library to have access to all the fiction books, audio books and e-books your heart desires-
Free!
To access amazing data bases including daily newspapers from around the world-     Free!
To look at a multitude of magazines-      Free!
QMC girls living out of Wellington can join too -      Free!

To find the latest books and resources at the Wellington City Library please look here.

here to:
'Discover and read free books by indie authors as well as tons of classic books'
- This is an Amazon site well worth checking out

Fun word game here

teenagers- how to review books and get published..

A new website is being launched on 10 March.

Hooked on NZ Books is an offshoot of New Zealand Books, the print journal.

It’s a website aimed at teenagers about reviewing. Content includes:

How to write a great review
Reviews of NZ books by YA readers with commentary
An invitation to submit reviews, and guidance from experienced writers
Interviews with, and commentary by, NZ writers
An archive of reviews of NZ Young Adult books

'Girl up' -Do you want to get involved and make a difference?
here

From the "Girl up"
website,

'Girls are powerful. When they’re educated, healthy, and safe, they transform their communities. When girls stand up for girls in need, they empower each other and transform our world. As the United Nations Foundation’s adolescent girl campaign, Girl Up engages girls to take action. Led by a community of nearly half a million passionate advocates raising awareness and funds, our efforts help the hardest to reach girls living in places where it is hardest to be a girl.'

Find out more here

Contribute to this peace project..

The Australian Living Peace Museum is an online museum and a new initiative- presenting Australian narratives of peace-making, non-violent social change and alternative forms of resistance to war and violence. New Zealand stories are wanted too! You can be part of this project and present your own family photos and stories- check this out

QMC library aims to support all readers...

“some books introduce us to characters who are different from us, allowing us to see the world from a new perspective. But for children in the process of figuring out who they are, and who they want to be, it is just as important to also read stories about characters they can relate to, and see themselves in.”

If you have a book you or topic that you would like to see in our library please come and talk to us in the library

check out this article about an 11 year old black American girl and how she felt about the books she read at school (and what she did to change that)
read this! here.

We highly recommend this site..

This is a great website- full of fun and inspirational books and activities- check it out!

Audio for YA fiction here!!!!!!!

Words about kindness... here

In praise of libraries..

“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead. A human with a brain and a heart and a desire to be uplifted, rather than a customer with a credit card and an inchoate "need" for "stuff." A mall–the shops–are places where your money makes the wealthy wealthier. But a library is where the wealthy's taxes pay for you to become a little more extraordinary, instead. A satisfying reversal. A balancing of the power.”
– Caitlin Moran

Come to QMC and see what else Caitin Moran has to say about the world, women and universal issues.
We have fiction and non fiction books by this wonderful ,intellectual and funny author.

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