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Summertime Reading

Get ready for a summer filled with stories, adventures, and endless imagination!

Your favourite stories can travel with you throughout summer, whether you're at the pool with friends, in the park with whānau, or chilling out at home - take stories with you and enjoy them with others. Discover exciting reads, eBooks, audiobooks and magazines at our libraries - join today!

Join us this summer as we bring the magic of reading and storytelling to cool places like parks, pools, playgrounds, and your local library. Plus, keep an eye out for our library van - it might just pop up at your favourite hangouts.

Whether you attend a Summertime Reading event, pick up a book from your local library or download a book online to take with you on your adventures, let your imagination come to life.

Stories come to life at the library. Nau mai tauti mai.

Events

Soft Toy Sleepover and Storytime at Te Hāpua: Halswell

Dec 15th | 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre

Join us for a fun evening Storytime with songs, books, rhymes, and a craft. Bring along your favourite soft toy to have a sleepover.

Summer Pool Party at Jellie Park, part of a series

Dec 17th | 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Jellie Park Recreation and Sports Centre

Inflatables, manu comps, giant games, free ice cream! Our van will be there so come and curl up on a picnic blanket and enjoy a good read.

Wild Wednesdays - Orana Wildlife Park, part of a series

Jan 3rd | 10:00am - 4:00pm

Orana Wildlife Park

Wild about Summertime reading? Come on safari with Christchurch City Libraries at Orana Wildlife Park this January!

Summer fun at Margaret Mahy Playground!, part of a series

Jan 5th | 10:00am - 2:00pm

Margaret Mahy Playground

Come, play and enjoy stories, games and activities. Great prizes to be won! Storytime session at 11am Free, all whānau welcome

Christmas events

Taiohi Ngāhau - Christmas Dance Party

Dec 15th | 5:00pm - 7:30pm

Tūranga

Come on down and get your boogie on and join us in Tūranga to welcome in Kirihimete with a banger. Spot prizes to be won, free, no bookings

Christmas Storytime and Carols

Dec 20th | 10:30am - 11:30am

Spreydon Library

Come and celebrate Christmas here at Spreydon Library! There will be carols, a festive Storytime and creative Christmas crafts.

Whakanuia Kirihimete: Celebrating Christmas

Dec 15th | 11:15am - Dec 21st | 2:30pm

Various locations

Join Māori & Multicultural Library Services for Christmas card making and Pasifika decorations.

Christmas characters

Dec 11th | 10:00am - Dec 24th | 4:00pm

Selected libraries

Colour and craft a Christmas crowd.

Recommended reads

Best of 2023 for Kids and Teens

Our selectors choose the best new titles for tamariki and rangatahi for 2023. Find books that excite, enthuse, enthral and inform.

Reading Recommendations for Tamariki

Librarians recommend the best books for tamariki on a variety of topics - fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, & more for kids of all ages.

Reading Recommendations - Teens

Explore fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, rainbow reads and more - all made for rangatahi. Find your next favourite read at the library.

Booklists

Christmas Comics

Christmas themed comics from Comics Plus.

New For You - Children's - December 2023 -

A selection of new fiction and nonfiction for older readers.

Best of 2023: Children's Graphic Novels

Best of 2023: Children's Nonfiction Art and Activities

Featured

Elmer's Ōtautahi Elephant Trail 25 Nov 2023-18 February 2024

Elmer's Ōtautahi Elephant Trail features 30 large elephants, designed by professional & emerging artists. Elmer HQ is at Tūranga!

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Join us for school holiday fun and learning

We have bookable programmes & free activities on in libraries in the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Thrillers and Suspense newsletter

Footsteps behind you. Conspiracy theories. Explore the latest Thriller and Suspense books - titles to give you goosebumps.

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Christmas

Links and information about the Christmas holiday - events, food, crafts, music, reading and more!

Join the library. It's free!

It is free to join the library. You can join the library online or at a library.

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