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Childrens Collection
Children's Library Collection
With our extensive collection of library items for children, which we are continually updating and adding to, Napier Libraries aim to:
- Foster a love of literature and learning
- Stimulate the imagination, the creative use of language and an appreciation of art
- Encourage children to develop a lifelong habit of reading for pleasure and information
- Develop children’s knowledge of language and ability to read fluently
- Enable children to expand their knowledge
- Stimulate children’s critical faculties.
Our Children’s Library Collection is made up of
| Picture books and board books |
| Beginner readers |
| Puzzle books |
| Junior fiction (chapter books for children of 6 to 8 years) |
| Children's illustrated fiction (Sophisticated picture books) |
| Senior fiction (chapter books for 9 to 14 year-old readers) |
| Senior quickreads (Short books with sophisticated storylines and simple reading levels) |
| Children's comics |
| Children's non-fiction |
| The Parents’ collection (books on all aspects of parenting and child development) |
| Children's Maori collection |
| Children's audio-visual (including music CDs, DVDs, Book and CD sets and CD talking books) |
| Jigsaws and puzzles |
| Children's Magazines |
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Located on Marine Parade, Napier, is the Bay Skate Park - home to skateboarding, BMX, roller derby, inline hockey and scootering.
Come to Par2 MiniGolf and meet Seamore the Seagull at our sea-side minigolf courses. Challenge your friends and family for a round.
We are Hawkes Bay's premier holiday accommodation park providing an array of facilities to keep the entire family entertained.
Unique Art Deco heritage has been preserved with the skilful addition of modern theatre facilities making it the best provincial performing arts centre in the nation.
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The Faraday Centre in Napier, is Hawke's Bay's Museum of Technology. It's a place of discovery where history comes alive through hands on experience.
Nowhere else in New Zealand will you discover a wider range of marine animals and native species in a single facility than at the National Aquarium of New Zealand.
Located in the Art Deco city of Napier. We have worked closely with our builders to promote and develop high quality housing within an open-aspect environment.
Situated in the centre of Napier, in the middle of Onekawa Park, the Napier Aquatic Centre is a safe and affordable aquatic facility for everyone.
For Napier City residents and citizens to have easy access to see what council are currently working on, completed, what they do, facilities, and council information.
Build on the blossoming national and international interest in William Colenso's life and ideas as the result of the William Colenso Bicentenary Celebrations in Hawke's Bay in 2011, and a body of new publications and research.
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We offer an all purpose built venue that uniquely combines spectacular outlooks with functional layout.