Reading Bingo Have a go at our Summer Reading Challenge Bingo! Complete a challenge, visit a library and tell the librarian about it, and they will stamp the box for you. Visit a library you don’t normally go to and get the branch stamp.
Read something your parents or grandparents would have read at your age.
Read a book written by someone with the same name as you.
Date:
Date:
Date:
Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Make something from a cooking or science experiment book.
Write a haiku about you!
Read a book from 5 different categories on the Summer Reading Challenge booklist.
Date:
Date: Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Read a book about another country. Date: Librarian Stamp:
t par e k Ta e free ng i h in t r Read d e n a m e Sum alleng es! h C priz win
Date: Librarian Stamp:
Create a picture or zine inspired by your favourite Summer Reading Challenge book. Date:
Read your best friend’s favourite book. Date: Librarian Stamp:
Wellington City Libraries
Summer Reading Challenge 1 December 2019 to 31 January 2020
Librarian Stamp:
How many can you read? wcl.govt.nz/kids Completed all nine challenges? Great! Fill in your name and library card number on the front of this booklet and hand in to your local library before 31st January 2020 to win a prize.
This Summer Reading Challenge booklet belongs to: Name: ...................................................................................................................................................
J009676
Library Card Number: ..................................................................................................
Welcome to Wellington City Libraries’ Summer Reading Challenge
Here’s how it works: Your mission is to read and review as many titles from this booklist as you can. You will automatically earn prizes for your reviews and each review you write will gain you an entry into the Challenge’s main prize draw. The more you read and review the better your chances of winning! Have a go at Reading Bingo! Complete all nine reading challenges on the back of this booklet before 31st January, hand in your named booklet at your local library to win a prize. All 5–12 year olds with their own Wellington City Libraries card can participate, with no registration required. Go to wcl.govt.nz/kids for more information and to write your reviews.
Key for booklist Advanced reader
L-Plate
Adventure
Myths & fairytales
Animals
Mystery
Award winner
Te Reo
Comic
New Zealand
e-audio
Non-fiction
e-book
Picture book
Families
Reluctant readers
Fantasy
Read aloud
Funny
Series
Historical
“Your mission is to read and review as many titles from this booklist as you can.”
Spooky
Title
Author
Cook’s cook: the cook who cooked for Captain Cook
Gavin Bishop
Granny McFlitter, the champion knitter
Heather Haylock
How Māui fished up the North Island
Donovan Bixley
Lyla
Fleur Beale
The stolen stars of Matariki
Miriama Kamo
Sticking with pigs
Mary-Anne Scott
The bomb
Sacha Cotter
The haunting
Margaret Mahy
The mapmakers’ race
Eirlys Hunter
The nature of Ash
Mandy Hager
Whetū Toa and the magician
Stephanie Matuku
A tangle of knots
Lisa Graff
Fing
David Walliams
Hilo
Judd Winick
Klawde
Johnny Marciano
Max and the Midknights
Lincoln Peirce
Olympians
George O’Connor
Rumple Buttercup
Matthew Gray Gubler
Small spaces
Katherine Arden
STEM lab: 25 super cool projects: build, invent, create, discover
Jack Challoner
Ten rules of the birthday wish
Beth Ferry
The bridge home
Padma Venkatraman
The curse of the Werepenguin
Allan Woodrow
The girl who drew butterflies: how Maria Merian’s art changed science Joyce Sidman The house with chicken legs
Sophie Anderson
The magic school bus
Joanna Cole
The sea book
Charlotte Milner
The worst book ever
Elise Gravel
To Night Owl from Dogfish
Holly Goldberg Sloan
Wonder
R. J. Palacio
Categories
Reading Bingo Have a go at our Summer Reading Challenge Bingo! Complete a challenge, visit a library and tell the librarian about it, and they will stamp the box for you. Visit a library you don’t normally go to and get the branch stamp.
Read something your parents or grandparents would have read at your age.
Read a book written by someone with the same name as you.
Date:
Date:
Date:
Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Make something from a cooking or science experiment book.
Write a haiku about you!
Read a book from 5 different categories on the Summer Reading Challenge booklist.
Date:
Date: Librarian Stamp:
Librarian Stamp:
Read a book about another country. Date: Librarian Stamp:
t par e k Ta e free ng i h in t r Read d e n a m e Sum alleng es! h C priz win
Date: Librarian Stamp:
Create a picture or zine inspired by your favourite Summer Reading Challenge book. Date:
Read your best friend’s favourite book. Date: Librarian Stamp:
Wellington City Libraries
Summer Reading Challenge 1 December 2019 to 31 January 2020
Librarian Stamp:
How many can you read? wcl.govt.nz/kids Completed all nine challenges? Great! Fill in your name and library card number on the front of this booklet and hand in to your local library before 31st January 2020 to win a prize.
This Summer Reading Challenge booklet belongs to: Name: ...................................................................................................................................................
J009676
Library Card Number: ..................................................................................................