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Magazines

Our children's magazine collection offers the perfect way for kids to explore their interests in a deep way, with new content every month.

The children's magazine collection is a small collection available at select branches. It covers a wide range of topics including entertainment, science, sport and art.

It is aimed at readers aged approximately 7-12 years of age.

Children's magazines are issued for 1 week and are free to borrow on a children's or young adult's library card.

Explore children's magazines on our catalogue.

Below is a list of the children's magazines we currently subscribe to. Let us know if you come across a magazine that's currently in publication that you would like us to consider for the collection.

Current Children's Magazines at Wellington City Libraries
Title Topic Location(s)

110% gaming

Gaming

Johnsonville, Miramar

Anorak : the happy mag for kids

Creative activities and crafts

Johnsonville, Wadestown

Blocks

LEGO® and modelmaking

Brooklyn, Cummings Park, Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori, Khandallah, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Newtown, Tawa

How it works

Science and technology

Johnsonville

Kazoo

Creative activities and crafts

Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori, Kilbirnie

Kick!

Sport (soccer)

Brooklyn, Cummings Park, Johnsonville, Karori, Miramar, Wadestown

Krash

Entertainment

Brooklyn, Cummings Park, Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori, Khandallah, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Newtown, Tawa

K-zone : the magazine for kids

Entertainment

Brooklyn, Cummings Park, Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori, Khandallah, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Newtown, Tawa

National Geographic kids

Geography

Cummings Park, Johnsonville, Karori, Miramar, Wadestown

NZ rugby world kids

Sport (rugby)

Brooklyn, Johnsonville

The official Jacqueline Wilson mag

Creative activities and crafts, books and reading

Johnsonville

Okido

Arts and science

Newtown

Toitoi : a journal for young writers and artists

Creative writing

Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori

Wild things

Animals, wildlife and conservation

Cummings Park, Island Bay, Johnsonville, Karori, Kilbirnie