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Check out the Our People 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
 Read about other cultures: 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
New Zealand authors: Find a new book or series on these booklists for younger readers or easier reads, or older or more confident readers
Translation challenge: learn to write your name in Braille at Braille Bug (click on 'Games and secret messages'); watch and learn New Zealand Sign Language online; write your name in Norse runes or Babylonian; play a codebreaking game or learn to sign Gorilla Sign Language like Koko!
Famous New Zealanders: 5 facts about famous Kiwis from Christchurch City Libraries
Looking for more challenges?
These won't count towards your final challenge score, but here are some more ideas for exploring our people or finding something new to read:
Name 5 languages, other than English, that the libraries have books in
Which famous actress' son (who shares his name with a hot drink) loves the Hairy Maclary books? Find out what movie stars, supermodels and the Obamas read to their kids.
Read a book about a job that interests you - ask a librarian to help you track one down
Write down a family recipe and share it with someone, or make your own cookbook and fill it with recipes from family members and friends - you could even make a video cookbook, or share a recipe on YouTube
Read a picture book from our construction and building booklist
Read a book from one of our family booklists
Read one of the bilingual books on our books in English and Maori booklist
Try this search!
Looking for a new series to get you hooked? Try this search to find a new series about your favourite topics - whether it's horses, sports, spies, ballet, magic or best friends.
1. Go to the catalogue and type in a topic. We'll try horses:
2. Limit your results to kids' titles by choosing 'Children' from the Target Audiences on the right hand side of the page:
3. Now look for the word 'Series' in that right hand menu. Click the link to see more series titles, and you'll be taken to a list of 'horsey' series, with the number of books in each series listed in brackets beside it. Clicking on any of the series titles shows you all the books we have in that series!
