Little Explorers book packs
About
With a Little Explorers book pack, curious kids are never short of a book!
Each Little Explorers book pack contains five carefully selected books on an early learning topic for children aged 4–8 years.
There are four to choose from:
Living things:
Join Sprout through books about plants, animals, habitats and life cycles.
Our planet:
Join Gem through books about resources, sustainability, recycling, weather and climate.
Space:
Join Orion through books about planets, stars and space exploration.
You, me, everyone:
Join Eddie through books about families, communities, culture and celebrations.
Each pack has a combination of story books and information books along with reading tips and activities based on the topic.
The books in Little Explorers packs will suit an independent reader as well as shared reading between child and adult.
Find Little Explorers packs in these libraries:
Kingston, Launceston, Hobart, Rosny, Glenorchy, Devonport, Burnie, Ulverstone, Huonville, Sorell, Wynyard, Cygnet, Longford, New Norfolk, St Helens, Bridgewater, Smithton, Deloraine and Exeter or place a hold for pickup at your local library.
Need reading tips for your child?
Reading Tips
Before reading
- Turn off electronic devices and give your child all your attention.
- Let your child pick and choose what they read for pleasure.
- Find a comfortable place to sit and read together.
- If your child is reading to you, let them hold the book.
- Ask your child to predict what the book will be about from clues on the cover.
- Ask them to use their first impression to predict if the book is a story book or an information book.
During reading
- Run your finger along the line to show your child that text runs left to right, top to bottom.
- Once or twice during reading, ask your child to predict what might happen next.
- Suggest ways for them to figure out difficult words by sounding out the letters or finding parts of the word they already know.
- Let them make mistakes and give them time to self-correct.
- If they are stuck on a difficult word, try breaking the word down into separate sounds. Ask them to go back and re-read the sentence so comprehension isn’t lost.
- It’s okay to talk about the pictures or only read parts of the book.
- Ask them what they would do / how they would feel if they were in the story.
After reading
- Ask your child to tell you what they did / didn’t like about the book.
- Encourage them to re-tell the story or a fact from the book.
- Allow them to read favourite books again and again.