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Kids’
News
Issue 1 2019
Inside this issue Build it better than Bob
Contents What’s new
Did you know we’ve been In this issue we are celebrating
Building books 3 creating Kids News for all things building. Whether it’s
27 years?! Waaay back in constructing elaborate things out
Code like a pro 4 December 1991 our very first of LEGO or some of the coolest
issue of Kids News was printed. buildings in the world, we’ve got
Creative and iconic Back then everything was articles on them. There are lists
constructions 5-6 hand written, or typed using a of building books you can borrow
typewriter (ask Mum and Dad and instructions on how to make
Best reads 8 what that is). We also did A a paper plane. Did you know, you
LOT of photocopying! Now we can learn how to code for free
Games galore 9
write all the content on a word with your library card?! Check out
School help online 10 document, our graphic design page 4 for more information on all
team put it together using very the resources we have to help you
Word find 12 cool software and a company become a software engineer.
Acknowledgements: Kids News
prints and binds them for us.
So much easier! If your Mum or We’ve also have extremely funny
would like to thank all providers
Dad grew up on the Sunshine jokes and a scavenger hunt
for the use of their images.
Coast maybe they read Kids throughout this issue. Can you find
News when they were your age! all the balloons hidden throughout
the pages? Hint: there are 8 of
them.
Possum Magic Monday 12 – Tuesday 13 August
10.00am, 12.30pm and 1.00pm
A brand new stage Entry $20 or Family of 4 $70
adaption of this magical www.scvenuesandevents.com.au
Aussie children’s book is
Library love coming to the Coast!
Did you know, nearly every
day new books are delivered
to all Sunshine Coast
Libraries? That means you
will never run out of books
to read! You can come in
and browse or jump on our
website to find all the cool
things we offer.
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Watch it!
This year’s calendar is
jam-packed with loads of
blockbuster movies. Here are
a few you won’t want to miss:
Shazam! 4 April
Wonder Park 4 April
Aladdin 23 May
The Secret life
of Pets 2 20 June
Toy Story 4 20 June
Uglydolls 27 June
The Lion King 17 July
Dora the Explorer 2 August
Build it
Discover, build, engineer or
Dinosaurs
craft with these brilliant
By Annalees Lim
books.
Exciting engineering activities
Leonardo’s art workshop:
By Angie Smibert
invent, create, and make
STEAM projects like a genius
Genius LEGO inventions
By Amy Leidtke.
with bricks you already have:
40 new robots, vehicles,
The LEGO zoo: 50 easy-to-
contraptions, gadgets, games
build animals
and other fun STEM creations
By Jody Padulano.
By Sarah Dees
100 things to know about
How to be an engineer
numbers, computers & coding
By Carol Vorderman.
By Alice James
Building structures and towers
Amazing brick mosaics:
By Tammy Enz
fantastic projects to build with
Lego blocks you already have
Coding with Minecraft: build
By Amanda Brack
taller, farm faster, mine deeper,
and automate stuff
Brain lab for kids: 52 mind-
By Al Sweigart
blowing experiments, models,
and activities to explore
Rockets
neuroscience
By Louise Derrington
By Eric H. Chudler
Build it!
Coding with Hopscotch
By Caroline Alliston
By Álvaro Scrivano
Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019 3
Code like a pro For children aged 7+
Start your coding adventures today – all you need
to do is visit Sunshine Coast Libraries website,
library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. Once you are
on our website, select the Children tab, then select
Coding and login with your library card. Your biggest
conundrum will be whether to start your coding
odyssey with Swopbots or Rainforest Coding.
Rainforest
Swopbots Coding
Do you want to be a hero and learn to code at the Rainforest Coding is a perfect way to introduce
same time? Do you have what it takes to overcome yourself to the world of computer coding. Rainforest
any challenge that comes your way? If you said yes, Coding is a collection of adventures, puzzles, and
then Swopbots is perfect for you. activities that will help you become familiar with the
basics of Scratch. To make it fun, it does involve
Swopbots puts you in charge of two kids, Loop and
fighting off hoards of killer robots.
Switch, who have been raised by robots and now
find themselves stranded on an alien planet. Switch As you become better at finding your way around the
is a genius computer programmer, she has never keyboard, and your Scratch skills improve, you will
come across a coding puzzle she couldn’t solve. begin a journey that will take you to hidden temples,
Loop has robotic legs that allow him to run and leap battle giant robot monsters and escape mazed
faster than any human in history. caverns.
Their only companions on the distant mining planet Rainforest Coding introduces elements of Scratch
are the Swopbots, three robots who can swap coding in a logical and easy-to-understand way,
body parts to help Switch and Loop overcome any meaning you will grow more and more confident
problem that comes there way. the more you play. You will also become far better at
destroying all enemies that stand in your way.
Swopbots combines traditional platform game
elements with an easy-to-learn block based coding Rainforest Coding’s second great mission, Echo
system. Code your way from platform to platform, Island, allows you to extend your knowledge and learn
collect crystals and avoid falling off the planet! even more coding structures. If you happen to find
that the army of killer robots are becoming too much,
P.S It’s not gaming…it’s learning.
Rainforest Coding have a number of animated and
interactive tutorials and instructions to make sure that
defeat is not an option. These tutorials will help you
to understand the coding techniques to ensure you
conquer all before you.
More resources at the library
There’s also loads of books 2. Under Anywhere type in every two months and it is
on coding! Whether you want Coding awesome! If you don’t want
to learn a coding language, to wait for the latest issue you
become an expert at Scratch 3. Under Collection scroll can go straight to their website
or learn to code in Minecraft to down and choose Junior from our library catalogue
automate stuff we’ve got you Non-Fiction to find loads of activities,
covered. 4. Reserve the titles you information and projects for
want! hours of fun.
Handy hint:
But wait there’s more! P.S all this
1. Use Advanced Search in stuff is good
the library catalogue. We even stock Beanz
magazine that is published for grownups
to use too!
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LEGO trivia
The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk
Why are there no planes
Kristiansen. The company has passed from father to son where Peter Pan lives?
and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild
of the founder Because there is a sign that
says, “Never Neverland.
The word “LEGO” is from the first two letters of the Danish words
“Leg” and “Godt,” which means “play well.” Which Disney character can
The brick in its present form was launched in 1958.
count the highest?
There are more than 60 different colours and more than
Buzz Lightyear – he can
3,500 different types of elements of LEGO.
count to infinity and beyond.
Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a What happens when Olaf
year would reach more than five times around the world. throws a temper tantrum?
On average there are 62 LEGO bricks for every person He has a meltdown.
on earth
Why was Cinderella kicked
There has been approximately 4 billion mini-figures off the soccer team?
produced – making it the world’s biggest population
group. Because she
always ran away
A professor of mathematics calculated that there are more than from the ball.
915 million ways to combine six LEGO bricks.
In 1997, a container filled with 4.8 million LEGO pieces fell from Why did Mickey
a ship and into the sea off Cornwall, England during a large go to outer space?
storm. Instead of remaining at the bottom of the ocean, they are To find Pluto.
still washing up on Cornish beaches. Even stranger?! The LEGO
pieces were all nautical themed so people have found octopus, Why are movie stars so
scuba diving gear and even cutlasses! cool?
You can become a LEGO designer, however it’s best to spend a lot Because they have so many
of time practicing your LEGO build skills then go to University to fans.
get qualifications in engineering, 3D design and/or robotics. You
can practice at home now by downloading the free LEGO Digital Why can’t you give Elsa a
Designer that lets you build models by using virtual bricks. balloon?
At LEGO Headquarters in Denmark they have an archive where Because she will let it go.
they keep samples of every LEGO toy produced over the past 57
years. There is over 4000 of them! What do you get if you cross
Donald with a whale?
There are 9 LEGOLAND theme parks in the world.
Moby Duck.
Jan Vormann, a German street artist, set out to repair structures
all over the world using LEGO bricks. His work became so
What kind of vegetable do
popular that there is now a whole network of artists using LEGO
you get when Dumbo walks
to repair cracks in buildings or patch up holes in walls all over
through your garden?
the world.
Squash.
Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019 5
Fallingwater
Pennsylvania
Creative Fallingwater is quite possibly the most famous
private residence in the world. Why, you ask?
The uniquely designed house makes it look
I c o n ic like the building stretches out over a 10 metre
and
waterfall, with no solid ground beneath it.
This is obviously not the case, being that we
mere mortals cannot defy the laws of gravity,
Constructions
but with some very clever engineering this
amazing effect was achieved. The innovative
design captured everyone’s attention when
it was finalised in 1939. It has now become
a natural historic landmark. This house is so
cool you can even get a LEGO version!
Niterói Contemporary
Art Museum
Rio de Janeiro
The saucer-shaped structure, which looks
suspiciously like a craft sent by an alien
race to study Earth’s inhabitants, is set on
a cliff-side. The building’s actual purpose
is to house some of the world’s most
beautiful and contemporary artworks. This
Burj Khalifa
stunning structure is still famed for its
unique design despite being completed in Dubai
1996, more than 20 years ago.
This monstrous construction currently holds
the record for the world’s tallest building.
Located in Dubai, part of the United Arab
Emirates, this shockingly tall building stands
at a whopping 829.8 metres. Constructing the
Buri Khalifa was no small task. The building
began in 2004 and finally opened its doors
at the beginning of 2010. For a building this
big you would expect it to take a while to give
it a good wash – it takes 36 workers up to
4 months to give the Buri Khalifa’s exterior
windows a good scrub.
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Petronas Towers
Kuala Lumpur
Standing at 451.9 metres tall, the Petronas
Towers are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. The buildings, which held the title
of tallest in the world from 1998-2004, is an
iconic city landmark. If you would like to get Marina Bay Sands
from one tower to the other in a hurry, not to
worry, there is a sky-bridge that connects the Singapore
41st and 42nd stories of the two buildings. So
if your idea of a casual stroll is 170 metres The Marina Bay Sands is a gigantic
above the ground, then the Petronas Towers resort and casino situated in Marina Bay,
are for you. Singapore. Opening in 2010, this mega
structure was billed as the world’s most
expensive casino property – just a measly
$8 billion. The resort includes a 2,561
room hotel, a convention centre, shopping
centre, museum, two large theatres,
restaurants, art-science exhibits, and the
world’s largest atrium casino. Without a
doubt, the site’s most impressive feature
is the 340-metre-long SkyPark with a
capacity of 3,900 people and a 150 metre
infinity swimming pool, which sits atop the
three main complex buildings.
Green Square Library and Plaza
Sydney
The Green Square Library is the perfect place
to learn, relax or play…especially if you like
doing these things underground. Yes, you read
correctly – underground. The award-winning
library is 2,300 square metres of open space
situated underground on land that was once a
swamp. Talk about a construction challenge!
The library boasts a collection of more than
40,000 books, CDs, DVDs, magazines and
newspapers, as well as programs, events and
workshops. To fight off the gloomy darkness
of the space, 40 skylights have been installed
across the roof to help natural light flood in.
Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019 7
Summer Reading Club book reviews
We asked you to read over the summer holidays and you did!!
49,700 children’s books were borrowed during the holidays…that’s a lot of reading!
Here’s some reviews we received from participants in our annual Summer Reading Club.
Parkland Insects Grumpy Monkey
Author: Victor Kelleher Author: David Burnie Author: Suzanne Lang
A gripping story of questioning This is an information book. It has Jim Panzee the monkey is having
acceptance within community, with very close up photos of eyeballs, a very bad day. Everyone thinks
a deep theme of teamwork and spikes and antennae. You can learn Jim is grumpy. He totally is. You
the unity of both all, human apes. about caterpillars, flies, butterflies should read this book because it’s
Following the story of Cassie and and moths and lots of other confusing, and that is good.
her ape friends as they escape the insects. The praying mantis looks
fortress of Parkland and attempt like he is doing yoga. Hamish (Aged 7)
to find a free life, questions are
raised and conflicts rage in this Meika (Aged 5)
unique novel. Would DEFINITELY The Wonderful Wizard of
recommend. Oz
Star Wars Omnibus Author: L. Frank Baum
Sebastian (Aged 13) Author: Dark Horse Books
I think the Wizard of Oz was really
This volume of Star Wars stories good. I found it funny when the
Cheetahs was actually even more exciting Wicked Witch of the West melted!
and interesting than I thought it Dorothy and her friends never gave
Author: Laura Marsh
would be. It had great characters up to go see that wizard!! But Oz
I like this book because it tells you and storylines and highly was a TRICKSTER!!! But I think
information about Cheetahs. It also recommend it for Star Wars fans. every-one should read this book!!
shows you differences between a
leopard and a cheetah. James (Aged 11) Mia (Aged 9)
Amber (Aged 5)
Warriors Series Everland
Author: Erin Hunter Author: Wendy Spinale
Who Farted?
If you like cats and adventure I loved this book! It was a dark,
Author: Ohara Hale
stories these books are for you. The twisted version of Peter Pan so it
A short read for all ages. In one really cool thing about these books made it easy to read. Even so, I
minute the book fills you with a is they have heaps of stories about wouldn’t recommend anyone to
funny, weird and happy feeling. You some of the most famous cats in read it if you aren’t over the age of
should definitely read it. Suitable the clans: Tiger Claw, Leaf Pull and 10 as there were a few dark parts. I
for all ages. Doe Wing. Highly recommended. loved this book!
Jasminder (Aged 13) Andrew (Aged 9) Milla (Aged 10)
Beauty and the Beast
Author: Disney
Belle helps the beast become a
good guy. He learns to be kind
which is the best thing to do.
I loved this book!
Sophia (Aged 6)
8 Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019Best Reads
Best Book
Here are some of the best books our readers have found this year. of 2019
Tell us what your
absolute favourite
book has been this
year (so far!)
My name is:
I am years old.
My best book is:
Title:
Author:
Charlie (Aged 9) Chloe (Aged 7)
5 words to describe how
Book: Rowan of RIn My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: awesome it is:
Author: Jenifer Rowe Rainbow Rocks!
The best character in the Author: Perdita Finn
book: Rowan is the keeper The best character in the
of the Bukshah (the mythical book: Twilight Sparkle because
creatures in their town). He is she sang a happy spring time
scared about everything and song like this “with my best
everyone and the village doubts friends, we can depend – they
him. In the end the villagers will always follow through. There
begin to see him as a hero and is a guarantee for fun when I
Send to:
he finally gets the respect that spend it with you!” and “with my
Kids News
he deserves. best friends, we feel like we still
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belong and everyday it makes
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our friendship.”
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the villagers, including Rowan, the window and is looking at
set off on a journey up to the her friend. All of her friends Or hand in:
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tested along the way but there song. They were having so much libraries@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au
can only be one hero. fun. Next they sang a song and
Rainbowdash said “you girls Your review may be
5 stars – Best book ever! sound pretty good. Ever think of published in the next
making a band?” So they did it. issue of Kids News.
5 stars – Best book ever!
Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019 9School Help
Online Best
Resources to help you smash school Websites
no matter what the subject.
We’ve rounded up the best
Busy Things websites that will help
answer some of life’s big
Time flies when you’re having fun. There’s a bunch of
questions.
online games to help you learn new skills. Throw in some
colourful quirky characters and you’ll be busy for hours.
National Geographic
Britannica Library Kids
All the information you ever got from the encyclopaedia, plus heaps www.natgeokids.com
more! Easy to find content on a range of topics including arts, Have you ever wondered,
humanities and science. Look at timelines, watch videos, and learn “What are baby penguins
about the world with an interactive atlas. called?” Well, National
Geographic Kids has the
Literacy Planet answer!
Sharpen your reading skills by playing fun and interactive literacy
games. There’s literally thousands to choose from. This could get a NASA kids club
little addictive… www.nasa.gov/kidsclub
Perfect for budding
World Book Online Astronauts to learn all about
Had a little too much fun in the sun and need a change in NASA and its coolest and
pace? Checkout World Book Online. Read most interesting missions.
and explore through science experiments,
photographs, puzzles and games.
Wonderopolis
www.wonderopolis.org
A place where natural
curiosity and imagination
lead to exploration and
discovery.
Discovery Kids
www.Dkids.com.au
Fast, fun, fantastic facts!
ABCya!
www.abcya.com
Sharpen your skills with this
website using fun games
and apps.
10 Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019How to make a paper plane
Want to become
an aeronautical
engineer?
Check out this
website for
instructions, plans
and videos to become
a professional pilot.
www.foldnfly.com
Paper airplanes
Did you know the longest indoor distance
flown by a paper airplane was set in 2012?
The Guinness World Record of 226 feet,
10 inches still stands and is held by Joe
Ayoob. There’s a catch though! Joe may have
thrown the plane but John Collins aka “Paper
Airplane Guy” actually folded it. Joe used
to be a football player and John has studied
origami.
The perfect pair for paper plane flying
(see if you can say that 3 times fast)!
Sunshine Coast Libraries Kids News Issue 1 2019 11Find the hidden words
We’ve hidden names of a bunch of words in the box below.
See if you can find them all.
K E Y W O R D G M U F L M E B
W S G L L R Q A F T E A F T O
W Y M K C X G B P V N X L A O
M O U M S A N F O G N T I D K
N T M D Z O G N A P E K B E S
D O A I I T C E W M Y A R U Y
M E N T J I E Q R A Q H A D N
Sunshine Coast
R E C F H B B N W R J F R I Q
Libraries
S I O P I N F O R M A T I O N
F I A X N C A K G E U H A J I Beerwah, Peachester Road
Y R D B P A T U G Z T Q N W O Caloundra, Omrah Avenue
G C I S U M O I T Z A N D V D Coolum, Park Street
V S L W R K G L O H G M I D N Kawana, Nanyima Street
R E P A P S W E N N O G L S T Kenilworth, Elizabeth Street
X R S B L V G R T O I R T Z R Maleny, Coral Street
Maroochydore, Sixth Avenue
AUTHOR INFORMATION MANGA
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