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Best of 2023

Best of 2023

What reads, watches & listens have you enjoyed this year? Find out what staff and customers loved in 2023 - have your say!

Most Popular 2023

Find out what was popular this year - fiction, non-fiction, books for tamariki and rangatahi, and more!

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.

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Staff picks

Poetry topics on specific subjects like dinosaurs & feelings

Poems about all your favourite topics from feelings to dinosaurs to atoms to jellyfish, and everything in between.

Great poetry, just in a picture book!

Some great children's poetry is now published as picture books. Here are some of our favourites - great rhyming, rhythm and fun.

Classic children's poetry

Classic children's poetry as chosen by the buyers of children's books at Christchurch City Libraries.

What you waiting for? April 2024

Books that have recently piqued Donna's curiosity. Barbie outfits. Audrey in Paris times 2. Two books by WORD Christchurch guests of yore.

World Languages Collection

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