Staff Picks

All the Library staff enjoy a good book to read. Heres our favourites for this month!

Erica's Excited

about Angel Cats: When Feline Friends Touch Hearts And Change Lives by Allen & Linda Anderson. This book was an amazing read. For those of you who are cat lovers (as I am) then you will enjoy this book because it shows how cats have a super sense and know just where and when to be where they are needed the most (and usually they arrive just in time). It tells about how cats are great comforters in times of need. They give unconditional love and acceptance. When this book finished I was disappointed because I could have kept reading for hours more. It was that good! Located in Non-Fiction (636.8).

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Nimita Notes

Susanna Davidson uses simple sentences to retell The Story of Pegasus and it has colourful pictures, by Simona Bursi, that support the text. This is a great beginner’s book to start this year’s Summer Reading Challenges – Be A Legend – Read! So come, sign up and have fun. Located in Junior Readers (U).

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Ramona Raves

about The Naughty Corner by Colin Thompson for a fun picture book read. As always, the illustrations are fantastic but I also enjoyed the storyline as the value of the naughty corner is revealed. This is one for all the family and celebrates naughty people everywhere. Located in Picture Books (T).

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Rowena Recommends

Olivia Helps With Christmas by Ian Falconer. Entertain your little ones with this enjoyable picture book. Olivia loves Christmas so she wants to help out the best way she can. It’s a humorous book that everyone will enjoy. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Located in Picture Books (F).

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Susan Selects

Buckinbah Weir by local author Wayne Brooking for a classic Kiwi read. A weir on a forest creek has been the scene of a series of murders that stretch back to the early 1900’s. Investigators have never figured out what is happening and while locals have their opinions, deaths keep continuing. An Australian journalist and her Aboriginal photographer decide to investigate and discover there is more than can be explained by the rational world. What I loved about this story was the connection with characters and rural NZ. If a young Barry Crump had ever written a mystery story, this could have been it. Located in Fiction (Bro).

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