Most Popular in 2025: eAudiobooks for kids
Library staff have compiled reports to discover 2025's popular items at Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi. The books are listed in order of how many times they were borrowed from Libby.
Fiction
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter series 3 J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter series 2 J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter series, Book 4 J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter series, Book 7 J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter series, Book 6 J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter series, Book 5 J. K. Rowling
- The Flames of Hope, Wings of Fire series, Book 15 Tui Sutherland
- Demon Dentist David Walliams
- The Twits Roald Dahl
- The World's Worst Teachers David Walliams
- Big Shot, diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Book 16 Jeff Kinney
- The World's Worst Parents David Walliams
- Hot Mess Jeff Kinney
- The World's Worst Children David Walliams
- A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle,
- Dragonet Prophecy, Wings of Fire series, Book 1 Tui Sutherland
- Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories Jeff Kinney
- Bad Dad Jeff Kinney
- Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal Jeff Kinney
Non-Fiction
- Gymnastics Superstar Simone Biles
- In the Time of Dinosaurs
- Boy: Tales of Childhood
- Inside the Earth
- Going Solo
- Revolting Rhymes
- Ms. Hannah Is Bananas
- The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions
- Climate Challenge
- Frog and Toad: A Complete Audio Collection
- Healthy Eating Habits
- You Vs the World: The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up
- The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
- Birthday Boy
- Kay's Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body
- Lost in the Solar System
- Mars! Earthlings Welcome
- You Are History: From the Alarm Clock to the Toilet, the Amazing History of the Things You Use Every Day
- Paddington: The Original Story of the Bear from Peru
- The First Hippo on the Moon
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