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Check out the Go Aqua challenges and see how many you can complete.
Get your stamp from a librarian when you have finished. Will you be a library adventurer, intrepid explorer or a trail blazer?
Bonus booklist
 Mermaids and pirates: Find a new book or series on these booklists for younger readers or easier reads, or older or more confident readers
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Go exploring online
Water animals: Find a new book or series on these booklists for younger readers or easier reads, or older or more confident readers
Haiku challenge: Find out how to write haiku here, or go for a walk through the Children's Haiku Garden; print out this colouring page of a frog on a lily pad, colour it in and write your poem on the back
Water experiments: Watch an animated water cycle, and then make your own. Try some of the science experiments at the Science Kids website, including 'bending' water with a comb, trying the ice overflow and making your own quick sand, rainbows and tornadoes.
Looking for more challenges?
These won't count towards your final challenge score, but here are some more ideas for exploring water or finding something new to read:
Make a sandcastle library (and be inspired by some of the amazing sand art you can find online) or design an underwater library
Play WaterSafe's WaterSense game and print out an award when you finish
Take a trip on one of the Auckland ferries and get a photo of yourself reading on board the boat
Guess how many Auckland Libraries can see the water from their front door
Read a book about boats or fishing from our seafaring life booklist
Read a picture book from our summer and beaches booklist (or our rainy days and umbrellas booklist)
Try this search!
If you don't know what you're looking for on the library catalogue, try this lucky dip.
1. Pick a word, any word. We'll start with ships:
2. Now, look for an interesting word in the 'word cloud' at the side of the screen. I'm going to click on 'pirate':
3. Each time you click on a word, you'll get a new 'lucky dip' of books to choose from. Remember, if you want to limit to only kids' books, choose 'Children' from the Target Audience choices on the right:
